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ALPA new website

Me too, Marco. They went through the trouble of making all those pages, so I assume it will be added at some point.

There are certain specific changes Alpa/Schneider made to some of the lenses I hope get memorialized. For example, center filters. The Alpa versions had a unique filter thread size for the 43xl and 60xl so the IIj could be used on the 47mm but also both the 43 and the 60 with the supplied adapter. I am pretty certain this is different than what Schneider says in their specifications. Here is the Schneider brochure for the "original" apo digitar lenses:
Schneider_original_AD_brochure.jpg


Here is the info from the "new" apo digitar lens brochure:
Schneider_new_AD_brochure.jpg


And here is the info for Alpa's version of those lenses, which comes from Alpa's brochure dated October of 2018. It shows using the CF IIj for the 48 (really the sk47), 43xl and 60xl:
alpa_lens_cf_list.jpg


So if you have an Alpa version of these Schneider lenses and don't know any different, you could unknowingly buy the wrong CF. It is all quite confusing. Not to mention all the confusion around the 47xl to begin with. Alpa lists them both, but changed the description of the new one to the 48mm! Ugh.

Edit: Front threads on the Schneider brochure vs Alpa brochure:
43xl: 58mm vs 67mm
60xl: 62mm vs 67mm

Dave
 
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dchew said:
Me too, Marco. They went through the trouble of making all those pages, so I assume it will be added at some point.

There are certain specific changes Alpa/Schneider made to some of the lenses I hope get memorialized. For example, center filters. The Alpa versions had a unique filter thread size for the 43xl and 60xl so the IIj could be used on the 47mm but also both the 43 and the 60 with the supplied adapter. I am pretty certain this is different than what Schneider says in their specifications. Here is the Schneider brochure for the "original" apo digitar lenses:
Schneider_original_AD_brochure.jpg


Here is the info from the "new" apo digitar lens brochure:
Schneider_new_AD_brochure.jpg


And here is the info for Alpa's version of those lenses, which comes from Alpa's brochure dated October of 2018. It shows using the CF IIj for the 48 (really the sk47), 43xl and 60xl:
alpa_lens_cf_list.jpg


So if you have an Alpa version of these Schneider lenses and don't know any different, you could unknowingly buy the wrong CF. It is all quite confusing. Not to mention all the confusion around the 47xl to begin with. Alpa lists them both, but changed the description of the new one to the 48mm! Ugh.

Edit: Front threads on the Schneider brochure vs Alpa brochure:
43xl: 58mm vs 67mm
60xl: 62mm vs 67mm

Dave
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Wow, that's confusing. Thanks for the hints.
I'm not going to own any ALPA branded SK lenses for the time being, but I'm trying to put things together to have a clearer idea of the correspondences between the various models' rebrandings.
 
There was a common filter diameter size introduced, yes, for the Alpa variants, idea being to help photographers to only carry one CF for both the 43 and 60 XL. The 72 Helvetar also had a wider front ring.
 
While 'carrying only one CF for both the 43 and 60XL' sounds like a laudable goal, it ignored the practical reality that, with digital, the CF is best left on the lens at all times.

(Yes, I get it that some people want to not buy a second CF. But swapping a CF back and forth between lenses in the middle of shooting is a pain.)

As Dave pointed out, Alpa's renaming of lenses introduced another level of complication. It seems to have assumed that users would remain wholly within the Alpa universe and read only Alpa literature.
 
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