[FilmSprocket]

I forgot to mention another Exakta-mount lens I have. It's a 400mm f4.5 Piesker Tele-Picon (Berlin W. Germany) that I bought at a consignment shop a couple of years ago. Amazingly, I still haven't shot with it yet. The lens is very heavy, has a fixed lens hood with no threads for filters and has perhaps a single coating on the front element only. The aperture is beautifully round with 20 diaphragm leaves!

I will shoot with it soon.

Does anyone have experience with this or any other Piesker lenses?

Marc

Here's a funny thing on eBay regarding the above mentioned lens. There's a guy selling the front part of this lens and claiming it'll work for 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 LF cameras. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=025
This lens has at least 4 or 5 elements in it and he's working with 2 of them with what he's selling there. I e-mailed him and told him I have the same lens with the difference being I have the entire lens assembly and it was made for 35mm cameras. He said he has bench tested it and came up with 339mm of coverage. No other info. Am I missing something here?

Marc