cooke series II anastigmat?

[goamules]

Here is the corner of my 8x10 camera, note it covers a lot further than the 5x6 marker.



I put it on my wholeplate camera, and just shot two sheets, one wide open, one at F8. In the soup now.

[IanG]

Garrett, your lens appears to be marked 5x8 not 5x6, according to Cooke the 8" covers Half Plate (1919 TT&H Cooke BJP ALmanac advert) the marked 5x8 is the nominal coverage with movements for a Half plate lens. It should cover 7x5 OK but with less room for movements.

I know my 6½" covers 5x4 with plenty of room for movements, the Soho Reflex has front rise/fall, tilt and swing, I just tried one of the 5¾" lenses on a 7x5 camera and it just cuts off the corners so will cover 5x4 well. TT&H Cooke don't listed the coverage for the 5¾" lenses which were made for Quarter plate and 6.5x9 SLRs, it's the shortest FL that can be used on the smaller the Thornton Pickard Ruby Reflex cameras.

Ian

[goamules]

My ground glass on this 8x10 is marked that size for a wetplate holder I use. I then moved the lens to a permanent lensboard on my 6 1/2 X 8 1/2 Rochester, where it covered very well.

[John Kasaian]

Terrific lens! I've got a 13" in a Betax

[Louis Pacilla]

Terrific lens! I've got a 13" in a Betax

Hey John are you sure you have a Series II f4.5 13" as it would be a Cooke Portrait in series II at that FL and it will NOT fit in shutter. You sure you don't have the series w/ max aperture of f8 or f6.5. It's kind of a different animal.

[IanG]

There was a13" f4.5 Series II, TT&H Cooke state that the 8½" & 13" include a new diffusion adjuster (in 1910) it wasn't sold specifically as a Portrait lens. The Cooke Portrait lens at that point was a IIa f3.5 12".

Ian

[goamules]

Here is a good rundown of both the soft focus Cooke Portrait Anastigmats, and the non soft focus Anastigmats. Note, there is an Anastigmat IIa at F3.5 (near top), and a Portrait Anastigmat IIa at F3.5 with the soft adjustment (towards the bottom of the page).
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[Emil Schildt]

aah - the IIa..

I LOVE mine..

[John Kasaian]

Hey John are you sure you have a Series II f4.5 13" as it would be a Cooke Portrait in series II at that FL and it will NOT fit in shutter. You sure you don't have the series w/ max aperture of f8 or f6.5. It's kind of a different animal.

I'l have to go look for it and report back!

[8x10 user]

I found a missing link Cooke that is marked as a Series II Anastigmat (without "portrait") however there is indeed a soft focus mechanism between the lenses. Its odd as one the other early Cooke portraits that I have seen was marked portrait however instead of a mechanism you just screwed in the rear lens for more softness.