What lens (it looks massive) is on his camera in the 1928 portrait of Edward by Tina Modetti?
What lens (it looks massive) is on his camera in the 1928 portrait of Edward by Tina Modetti?
If you're referring to this image, it's a Graf Anastigmat.
Thanks Will.... That's the one !
And according to his Daybooks, it gave him a lot of flare trouble, so he found a Rapid Rectillinear in a Mexican shop that he used instead.
No matter what lens you get, it will always be smaller than Edward's.
In that portrait he looks more than a little like Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein.
paulr, I think you're right!
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Ha!
My father's contact prints were doo doo!
16"-18" Graf Anastigmat on an 8x10 Ansco camera. That's a 7 1/2" lensboard for scale. Lens looks almost like a locomotive headlight. Reinhold Schable did a wonderful job making me a front-mount adapter for a large (5" aperture) Packard shutter. He provided the second pair of photos (the sharp ones, not taken with an iPhone.)
This lens is a sharp 18" ƒ/3.8 anastigmat. Unscrewing the soft focus adjustment fully to the stop turns it into a soft-focus 16" FL ƒ/4.5 lens. Cameraeccentric has a brochure on the operation of the Graf.
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