What sort of Pinkham & Smith is this?

**8x10 user** · 26-Apr-2010, 15:33

Maybe cooke will be inspired by the auction and reproduce this Pinkham as well.

**SAShruby** · 26-Apr-2010, 15:36

Originally Posted by 8x10 user

Maybe cooke will be inspired by the auction and reproduce this Pinkham as well.

If they have any...

**8x10 user** · 3-May-2010, 07:12

Looks like someone bought it.

**SAShruby** · 3-May-2010, 08:44

So, I got by two bucks back... Anyone here? Don't be shy!

**Steven Tribe** · 15-Jul-2012, 15:37

And another P&S rebadged Petzval, described (without commitment, though) as a soft lens, has (re)surfaced on e**y.

**goamules** · 15-Jul-2012, 17:53

That's a very fishy auction. The person who he references had some pictures "taken with" the Pinkham on Flickr, but quickly removed them. I looked at them, and they were very soft....and very fake looking. One even had the Flickr tag on it that said, "taken with a Nikon D7000". I could be wrong, P&S might have taken a Wollensak Vesta petzval (which the current one obviously is), and hand ground it to be soft. Or it could be someone was suckered into buying it too high, and it now trying to sell it even higher.

**SR95RACER** · 22-Jul-2012, 13:35

I know the original owner of that lens .That was not a Petzval .That lens has the same design as a Verito lens with a cemented rear element and everything and also works in the same way .The reason the pictures were take down was because the seller on ebay instead of take his sample pictures to sell the lens , was just using his pictures by listing his flirck id .He didn't like that and took it down .The lens is indeed soft and none of the pictures you saw were fake ,that's how they look .I know that very lens and have used it myself.The picture bellow was take by me using that lens .The lens barrel has the old aperture system engraved and on that system this picture was taken at f/2 i don't remember the shutter speed .This lens has a very nice look .Unfortunately i only got to play with it on my lunch time and it was around noon .The worst time to photograph .That goes to show that even a brass Pinkham can be a soft focus lens .He did a long study of that lens with day and night pics , and different shutter speeds and f stops . ATTACH=CONFIG]77653[/ATTACH]