View Full Version : Another Shorpy image. 1864 and the photog left his other camera lens laying in pic
Jim Galli
14-Jul-2014, 06:29
Here. (http://www.shorpy.com/node/18155?size=_original#caption) Looks like a 'radial drive' which would be correct. He obviously has his wide angle on the camera :cool: Glad I'm not the first guy to leave half my stuff laying around in the picture.
Bruce Schultz
14-Jul-2014, 08:00
Probably a CC Harrison. Looks like a tripod on the far left made from a small tree.
goamules
14-Jul-2014, 08:29
Good catch Jim! Nice period picture of one of our rare American Radials. For petzvals, I recently pretty much only shoot them, and have sold off most of my others from other countries.
Bruce, there are 2 or 3 other American radial drive makers in this time period besides CC Harrison.
Jason Greenberg Motamedi
14-Jul-2014, 08:44
Already lost the hood!
Jim Galli
14-Jul-2014, 09:22
Already lost the hood!
Probably unscrewed the hood and carefully set it on the Harrison Globe in use ;)
William Whitaker
14-Jul-2014, 09:28
Early eBay product shot. ("Hood included, but not pictured.")
Jac@stafford.net
14-Jul-2014, 09:30
Probably unscrewed the hood and carefully set it on the Harrison Globe in use ;)
Look to the right of the lens for the lens hood.
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BetterSense
14-Jul-2014, 09:45
Perhaps he intended to crop the image, and composed accordingly.
Jim Galli
14-Jul-2014, 10:17
Look to the right of the lens for the lens hood.
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Perhaps he intended to crop the image, and composed accordingly.
Ahh, the story unfolds. He first looked at it with the petzval, and he said 'dammit' dark corners. Maybe if I take the hood off the $!@#$^ thing will cover it. Nope, gonna have to put the globe on.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." King Solomon, Eccl 1:9
goamules
14-Jul-2014, 10:23
I think the hood was obviously blown off in the terrible industrial accident that also ripped the aluminum siding off that church building. Oh, the humanity....
The lone tree to the right of the church looks like a modern "cell phone tower cleverly disguised as a tree".
The gentleman on the left is Matthew Brady. I any list exists of his preferred gear, it may be possible to make a close guess as to the lens from that list.
pierre506
14-Jul-2014, 17:54
Don't forget HBH, too.
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