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My journey into large format photography began with a brand-new Schneider 210mm f/5.6 Symmar MC lens, paired with my first 4×5 camera, a Calumet monorail. As a commercial photography student specializing in food and product photography, this lens quickly became an essential tool in my kit. Its remarkable sharpness and reliability made it ideal for studio work. Over the years, I’ve consistently relied on Schneider large format lenses due to their exceptional performance. Today, I continue to use Schneider lenses, now in ALPA mounts for my ALPA technical cameras and Sinar DB mounts for studio shoots.
Rodenstock large format lenses are some of the best I have owned and used. The two enlarger lenses I had for medium format and 135 films were excellent performers in the darkroom. I continue to use Rodenstock lens filters today. Still, the only Rodenstock large format lenses in my kit now are the lovely 65/4.5 Grandagon-N with center filter and the Sironar N 210mm f/5.6 MC Sinar DB Lens for studio product work.