{"id":6845,"date":"2016-11-14T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2016-11-15T00:22:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T04:22:17","slug":"schneider-kreuznach-tele-arton-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/schneider-kreuznach-tele-arton-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Schneider Kreuznach Tele-Arton Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Schneider Tele-Arton f\/5.5 240mm lens<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. At one of our\u00a0mid 1990s fairs held at the Queensway Lion’s Club, I picked up a small f\/5.5 240mm telephoto lens in a Leica screw mount. It was sold to me by Jim McKeen. Jim was retired from his hardware store in Hamilton and had attended our fairs for a few years to sell off his camera gear. He was a birder and used this lens for that purpose. It had a 39mm Leica thread mount and a mis-spelt engraving “Arlon” instead of “Arton” – someone in the factory forgot to cross their “t”.<\/p>\n

It was a bit unusual since the lens was intended for medium to large format cameras, not 35mm cameras such as the Leica. It was newer (c1950s with factory coated elements), lighter, had a slightly longer focal length and was about a stop slower than the 200mm f\/4.5 Telyt I had.<\/p>\n

When digital came along, I tried the Tele-Arton out using the Leica bellows, rings and housing \u00a0with my Sony Nex-5. It was a good sharp little lens for the Sony giving the equivalent of 360mm focal length. N.B. this post is a repeat of another more detailed post<\/a> back in March of 2011.<\/p>\n

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Left – Kodak Timer with Tele-Arton, Centre – Hydro Pole with Tele-Arton, Right Engraving error<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. At one of our\u00a0mid 1990s fairs held at the Queensway Lion’s Club, I picked up a small f\/5.5 240mm telephoto lens in a Leica screw mount. It was sold to me by Jim McKeen. Jim was retired from his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[61,736,41],"class_list":["post-6845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lens","tag-leica","tag-schneider","tag-tele-arton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}