If I had the bucks, a 165mm Super Angulon would be the cat's meow. The 159mm Wollensak WA is a fine little lens though---I have one (yellow dot!) and I'm not complaining.
If I had the bucks, a 165mm Super Angulon would be the cat's meow. The 159mm Wollensak WA is a fine little lens though---I have one (yellow dot!) and I'm not complaining.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
I think this is the US Patent for the Goerz wide angle F9 filed by Franz Urban of C.P Goerz Berlin in Dec 1923
http://64.132.7.41/pcgi-bin/patents/us/pdfcache/1641402.pdf
apparently in 1936 the f9 Zeiss Dagor was avaialble in : 7.5cm, 10cm,
12.5cm, 15cm, 18cm, 21cm, 24cm and the 18cm was listed with an aimage circel of 15-1/2 inches at smaller stops. It came in barrel or compur shutter
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