Schneider Kreuznach 62,5/f2 cinelux with animal

a crop of turtle's foot

 

Schneider Kreuznach Super-Cinelux 35/2 MC

From official PDF sheet HERE

One thing I didn't expected about this lens is the size, I thought it has smaller/shorter barrel than 62,5mm ES cinelux. I was wrong. It's longer, and even has heavier hood. make it handsome lens though.

So far, the results ;

• Sharp as expected
• It has relative wide dof, good for indoor meeting, streetshot etc.
• Nice flare
• some CA appear which is acceptable

The first 2 were shot with Sony a6000

The rest pictures below with NEX5

smoke in the background

the flare

Schneider Kreuznach WA Cinelux Ultra 40/2 MC

The first 2 were shot with Sony a6000, the rest with NEX5

playing with ES Cinelux anamorphic 2x

NEX +SK 62,5 +ES Cinelux anamorphic 2x

Here's NEX +SK 62,5 +ES Cinelux anamorphic 2x

edited color

cropped with anamorp

here's the one without anamorpic lens

Here's Isco Optic Kiptron 90mm + ES Cinelux anamorphic 2x

without ES Cinelux anamorphic 2x

Sony NEX+Lensturbo+Isco kipron 90+ Anamorphic es cinelux

Schneider Kreuznach 62,5mm/f2

I got this lens attached on anamorphic cinelux 2x. 

Very sharp wide open from closest focus to infinity.

All shots with Sony NEX5

optic scheme

 The lens produce nice flare  against direct strong light

Playing with flare & OOF

OOF or out of focus area or for some people call it bokeh or boke combined with original light flare from the lens. The lens is SK Xenon 50/1,9

Rodenstock Rodagon 40/4 WA & SK Componon 40/4 WA

Rodenstock rodagon series have preset for aperture mechanism which can be set on certain aperture minimum (like Meyer preset), plus switch to change between click or smooth aperture transition.

Schneider Kreuznach componon has preset lever to switch from desired aperture to fully open aperture (like Helios 44-3 or Tair 11A preset), only click aperture no smooth option.

I cannot directly compare these two enlarger lenses because both have different back focus flange. Rodagon is shorter so that I cannot use same helicoid set up with Componon. I have to add m42 extension tube (thinnest) for Componon maximum use.

Rodagon

Rodagon crop

componon crop

Componon

 Shot comparison in sun light isn't good to judge color, tone, speed etc. Because in seconds light environment changed, so ignore these, I just wanna know how their sharpness at wide open.

Componon

Componon                                                                                Rodagon

Rodagon

My conclusion, Rodagon has better sharpness at wide open, however it has significant difraction at smallest aperture, f22, while Componon has less difraction.

At other aperture opening they perform similar except Componon has almost 5 star shape at f5,6 while Rodagon shaped pentagram. I will show you later.