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Dangerous ground!
Nothing where I usually look.
But this couldn't be an (early) version of the W.Z soft enlarging lens could it?.
That was only a 18cm F9 lens. This could be something that never found it's way into the catalogue. Voigtländer describe the WZ as having "malerischer Weichkeit" which is close to Artistique.
The WZ was with symmetrical single meniscus lenses so should be easily identifed.
Or Voigtländer decided to scrap this simple taking lens design and turned it into the WZ enlarger lens and make it slower/smaller as well?
Last edited by Steven Tribe; 4-Apr-2012 at 15:42. Reason: I posted twice by mistake!
Cool!
Being an f6, I'd guess it's a RR (rapid euryscop) type lens. Never seen one labeled like this before, but the barrel is definitely Voigtlander style, and they made a lot of different Euryscop variations (such as the Major and Minor lenses, which were RR types, but not marked eurysop). It 's similar in F.L. to a Euryscop Series IV #1. From the ser # (84xxx), I'd guess it was made after the Series IV was no longer in production (replaced by series IVa, f7).
cheers
Tim
Has anybody seen any photo made with Woigtlander W.Z f/9 lens? Famous lens but no shots to see.
Dan, What is the optical formula? Have you disassembled and examined it? Did you check reflections? Thanks, Geoff
Hi Chris,
Not much to reverse, the lens is just 2 elements, as described by Stephen above: opposed single meniscii. As Stephen also mentioned, it was not sold as a taking lens, but a "softener" for use in enlarging, which was not a good idea AFAIK. Mine is in barrel mount (some are found in shutter) so maybe mine had a different correction that made it less useful at longer focusing distances?
cheers
Tim
If the Iris numbers run- 6-12-24-48-etc : it could be a Goerz lens
The Stolze system as used on German made Goerz lenses?
Lauren MacIntosh
Whats in back of you is the past and whats in front of you is the future now in the middle you have choices to make for yourself:
Well spotted!
The iris scale is extremely odd. It would surely more recognisable if it was the modern system or the other common varieties.
Voigtländer used the Voigtläander Collinear scale (4, 8, 16...) which I have only seen in F scale comparison tables- where 6 was about F.8.
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