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    Re: Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

    It is probably its realistic price.
    Fortunatly in last months, prices are going down strongly...and surely they will continue to go down.
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    In addition, this lens has on the sunshade the address of "rue Bourbon le Château 2", an address in which Gaudin operated between 1855 and 1857 approximately.
    If it was one of the first Gaudin...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    I have other Lerebours lenses and they all have a serial number on the barrell, and the same serial number scratched on the glass edge:

    An small Petzval #9783.
    An small "paysage achromatique"...
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    Re: question about mid-1850s lenses

    As some members told you, it is quite likely that he used an achromatic landscape lens.

    Here two different morphologies for the same design. Both achromatic landscape by Andrew Ross, from early...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    It is not the serial number. Normally, these small numbers identify some, or each lens part.
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    Garrett, thank you so much!
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    And here the whole "team" of Lerebours and Lerebours & Secretan Petzval lenses without serial number...!
    https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/922/zxULbC.jpg
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    God, what have bad memory!
    Reviewing the information, I realized that I have in my collection, 3 more examples of Lerebours & Secretan Petzval lenses without serial number!
    Two of them comes from...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

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    No doubt about this lens, is something like a "missing link". Its morphology is closer to the very first Petzvals made by Lerebours but already corresponds to the period of the Lerebours...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    I have two early Petzvals made by Lerebours. I think one of them is really early....maybe late 1842. Both signed only "Lerebours" and with no serial number.
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    Here the early Voitlander Petzval lens fitted on a Lerebours daguerreian camera(c. 1842/1843) and the Lerebours Traite and Catalogue from May 1842(3th edition).

    Voigtlander Petzval lens serial...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    Steven,here you have some samples of Lerebours Petzval lenses(dit "Systeme Allemand") from circa 1842/1843. In the next replay, I added also pics of an original and really early Voigtlander petzval...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

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    Steven, Lerebours was making lenses with the Petzval design from 1842. He started as retailer of Voigtlander lenses and few months later he starts production of Petzval lenses. Lerebours...
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    I think Lerebours had much more status and relative importance in 1839/1845.
    Do not forget that was in the earliest team with Bianchi, Giroux, Chevalier y Gaudin as Daguerre's camera/lenses...
  15. Re: First Voigtlander Petzval series - help with German, if possible!

    From an original Voigtlander german catalog of 1863.

    https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/923/BXYYQ9.jpg

    https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/923/qXvdeQ.jpg
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    Re: Lerebours Serial Number - Rice Writing

    I think this diaphragm system is really early, it starts around 1843/early 1844.
    It is an improvement introduced shortly after starting to produce Petzval lenses. Lerebours, quickly understood the...
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    Re: Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

    Shape like british and french landscape lenses but this one it's a french made landscape lens.
    Botton a ferrotype of mine branded by Richebourg.
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    Re: Voigtlander & Sohn No. 9, ca. 1875

    Probably the same model than that one sold in auction years ago...same size and same look. But the other one was the #10.000 and was until 1945 at the Voigtlander Museum in Braunschweig....and near...
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    Re: Voigtlander & Sohn No. 9, ca. 1875

    Congratulations!!
    Incredible lens and incredible condition too!
    I think it's a Petzval #9. Focal lenght will be around 26 inches.
    Many of this kind of lenses were mounted on astronomical...
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    Re: Your Oldest Lens

    "Élève" is closer to "disciple" than "student".
    And "disciple of Lerebours" is because Lerebours was one of the most renowned makers at that time.
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    Re: Your Oldest Lens

    I'm not 100% sure, but I think Andrew Ross is in a different category than other manufacturers like Shepard, Thornthwaite, Cox... Andrew Ross was a really early manufacturer and certainly the first...
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    Re: Emil Busch Petzval Lens Info

    I was crossing with other german catalogs and a big Busch lens and I think that the triple apostrophe(''')are old german lines.
    One old german "linie" is same than 1/12 inch or 2,116mm.
    My lens is...
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    Re: Emil Busch Petzval Lens Info

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    I'm not sure about what does '''indicates, but I'm 100% sure are not inches. It's the usual way to indicate lens aperture in many german catalogs from the 19th. century. I will try to find...
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    Re: Emil Busch Petzval Lens Info

    This one, really big, at the Deutsches Museum...

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/923/udXUIn.jpg


    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/923/CYpzxU.jpg

    An original catalog...
  25. Re: Searching Namias AESCULIN Double Anacromatich lens owners

    Yes, my nik is "Anachromatique", from when I was a soft-focus lenses "tifoso".... ;-)
    Unfortunately, no filter with this lens.
    I will check because I'm pretty sure I have also some nice pictures...
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    I have one of that lenses in my collection and I think also some bibliography about this lens

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/922/qyzNEV.jpg
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    Re: Dallmeyer 2B would you polish?

    I think it could be an alloy known as zamak, like some early Heliars or Busch Nicola Perscheid.....
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    Re: Nude

    ....sweetness of Heliars.....
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    Re: Nude

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/633/XvYL1Q.jpg

    11x16 cm. tintype.
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    Re: Nude

    So sorry, I do a mistake! Are 400gr. and water to complete 1000ml. It's 40%.
    I edited my post.
    Best.
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    Re: Nude

    Thank you so much.
    I use thiosulphate; 400 gr. and water to complete 1000 ml....a high concentration. Anyway original tintype is warm but, not as warm as image.
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    Re: Nude

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/908/wXe96J.jpg

    11x16 cm. tintype.
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    Re: Collodion - Wet Plate Images

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/903/SOlsBG.jpg

    11x16cm. ferrotype.
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    Re: Dallmeyer 6A Lens

    Matched with the Dallmeyer records...."6A sold on 8 december of 1871 to Liesegang."
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    Re: Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

    Good overall condition. Near mint glasses.
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    Re: Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

    Dallmeyer 4B Patent...€1965.
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    Re: August 2015 portraits

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/661/4NrIIg.jpg

    "Ana Tornel". 5x7" tintype. Kodak 2D with Dallmeyer 3B.
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    Re: Collodion - Wet Plate Images

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/661/4NrIIg.jpg

    "Ana Tornel". 5x7" tintype. Kodak 2D with Dallmeyer 3B.
  39. Re: Darlot Artist Anachrom Pulligny and Puyo Lens Questions

    Your lens was made for 18x24cm plates.
    Variable focal length pair or fix focal length?

    Check here:...
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    Re: Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

    Maybe an adaptation work done by a french optician or camera maker.
    A similar convertion made on a daguerreian era lens (1842/1844).

    http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/908/iIg6of.jpg
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