Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

[Jac@stafford.net]

[...] we don't really have an extravert/"driven" person who needs to get his/her imagination out to the general photographic crowd.

Extravert/driven (sic) What does that mean? Is there a need for some kind of promotional narcissist?

[Jim Galli]

Extravert/driven (sic) What does that mean? Is there a need for some kind of promotional narcissist?

I took it to mean if someone with large gallery following like Sally Mann was using a group of these lenses and getting big $$$$$ for their pictures it would drive demand for those lenses up. My name comes up on searches, but I give my stuff away. Not driven to do otherwise.

[Mark Sawyer]

What we really need is a "Peter Lik" of pictorialist photography...

[Steven Tribe]

We are getting a bit beyond the aims of this thread. Especialy as we are using the sales statistic to judge current interest in Pictorialism. A new thread perhaps?

By "driven", I was thinking of someone like Jan Saudek, who has a very large and uniform production based on his own "twisted" imagination rather by Lik's demand driven output.

It is seems to me that just about everyone here who are into pictorial imaging are basically mature and well adjusted individuals without anything to prove. Which is good for a forum, but doesn't help dissemination. Perhaps many, like me, have been too fascinated with the history of optics and dose of GAS.

[ghostcount]

18” F4.5 Verito = $824.50

With flange, 8x8 Deardorff lensboard, and iris only no shutter.

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[CCHarrison]

Bam ! This thread just reached over half a million views. # 1 most read thread in this lens forum - the next most viewed post only has 67K views..... And, I believe its the second most read thread in all forums.

I started this thread Aug 2010, so thats an average of about 240 views per day for 5.75 years !!! Apparently there was and remains interest in soft focus !

[pierre506]

Congratulations~

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[Steven Tribe]

A sale at last!

T,T & H, Cooke series IIA, 15". 262395898865 2370usd.

In dire need of a clean and mechanical service.

[8x10 user]

Here are a few from the 4th quarter of 2015 and 1st quarter of 2016


600mm Plasticca $4,000.00 (201441987578)

12 3/4” Cooke Series II $3,000 (201272262976)

24" Hermagis Eidoscope $12,000 (Private sale)

15" Cooke Series II Knuckler $6,000.00 (191789306257)

13" Cooke Series IIa F/3.5 $6,500.00 (201504977531)

16" Cooke Series II $6,000.00 (201487805406)

[brandon13]

Here are a few from the 4th quarter of 2015 and 1st quarter of 2016


600mm Plasticca $4,000.00 (201441987578)

12 3/4” Cooke Series II $3,000 (201272262976)

24" Hermagis Eidoscope $12,000 (Private sale)

15" Cooke Series II Knuckler $6,000.00 (191789306257)

13" Cooke Series IIa F/3.5 $6,500.00 (201504977531)

16" Cooke Series II $6,000.00 (201487805406)

I searched all these numbers from the auction site and none of them showed up as listings. ?????????