Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

[Amedeus]

Eidoscope of the amateur variety!

Hermagis set of lenses making a 150mm Eidoscope in the original casket. No included shutter like the Busch Unicum set. About 1925, so perhaps for a dial Compur? Havn't seen this set before. The normal 150mm is described as being OK for 6x9cm, whilst the casket set talks about up to 9x12cm!

Ebay 132334508928. 709 usd.

Hi Steven,

I have one of those 150mm Hermagis Eidoscope casket setx and I mounted mine in a Compur shutter that came with a Carl Zeiss 150mm f4.5 Tessar lens. Perfect fit. Using this to shoot on MF digital. I'm more comfortable with the 6x9cm spec ... 9x12cm is a vignetting stretch ...

Rudi A.

[Amedeus]

Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia 26. Sep. 2017
P & S Visual Quality. Semi-achromatic; 13 inch (132334663535) = US $3.000,00 +20, 25 or 29% fees depending on bidding and payment
P & S Visual Quality. Series IV f4.5. No. 3. 14 inch (132334663177) = US $2.300,00 +20, 25 or 29% fees depending on bidding and payment

There was another P&S lens but mistakenly labeled Wollensak because of the #3 Studio Shutter .. the P&S lens is actually a Series II, #2 ...

Wollensak P&S Visual Quality No. 3 Studio Lens Lot 182 (132334663334) ... also US $2,300 +20, 25, 29% fees depending on bidding and payment as you noted. For completeness and to remove confusion around the poor title, this is a Pinkham&Smith, Visual Quality, Series IV, No 2 lens with extremely clean glass.

The brass Visual Quality (with iris, no shutter), Series IV f4.5, No 3 had dirty glass FWIW.

Rudi A.

[Steven Tribe]

Dallmeyer 2A - not a common size - especialy in the aluminium "turn the barrel"
Iris described as well functioning (in French) but nothing about softness adjustment. Loss of black finish, but with the flange.

132348678590 614.91 usd

[Steven Tribe]

The Flint's auction today was mostly about complete wood and brass 1/4 to 1/1 plate cameras with lenses. There was a single soft focus lens on one of the more non orignal full plate cameras.

Lot 373 Dallmeyer 3D £380 plus 20% fee.

[Darren Kruger]

Kalosat IB with original box but without flange.

BIN at $3000 USD. Item 292324365334

[Amedeus]

Kalosat IB with original box but without flange.

BIN at $3000 USD. Item 292324365334

I believe this closed at $2400 Best Offer unless you paid $3k for it. Ebay is has become almost good at hiding the Best Offer pricing, there's still one bug imho that reveals the actual transaction amount.

Rudi A.

[Amedeus]

While I'm at it ...

Pinkham Smith P&S Visual Quality No. 2 Series IV Lens for $2,182 serial #2858, a late lens in this series (BOBIN, 263295553088)

Soft Focus Brass Lens 400mm F/4 Oscar Zwierzina Plasticca Kunst Portrait for $1,150 (BIN, 122314504117)

305mm F3.5 Taylor Hobson TTH Cooke Series IIA Brass Portrait Lens w Soft Focus for $3,000 (BOBIN, 201655916914)

Taylor-Hobson Cook 15" F4/.5 Anastigmat Brass Portrait Lens for $3,251 (202095607980) ... This lens was sold before for $2,125 and resold by same seller. Note: a very similar lens was available as a BIN for $1,900 and disappeared after this listing.

Wollensak Verito 9" inch f/4 Diffused Focus Lens for $285 (352193095342)

Brass Portrait Hawkeye Diffusing Focus f-4 Series A 5x8 No.1 for $371 (142547015527)

Kodak Portrait Lens 305mm (12 inch) F4.8 in #5 Shutter for $450 (332414802816)

Kodak Portrait Ektar 16" 405mm f/4.5 for $1,212 (322820486902)

Hermagis Eidoscope NO.2 F/5 for $979 (112593775645)

13” 330mm F4.5 Taylor Hobson Cooke Series II for $1,400 (BOBIN, 201655916913) ... Rear soft focus adjustment per seller, no provision to move the middle element through the usual design.

Hermagis 1:4.5 №2 Eidoscope 375mm for $2,700 (131555990858)

Taylor-Hobson Cook 15" F4/.5 Anastigmat Brass Portrait Lens for $2,125 (202064348111). Deal didn't go through and lens was resold on the auction site for significantly more money ...

ANASTIGMAT LABOR 4,5/250mm O.I.P GAND - SOFT FOCUS for $1,108. This Belgian lens from the 1930's has the same design as Universal Heliar. (BIN, 122176574465)

[Darren Kruger]

I believe this closed at $2400 Best Offer unless you paid $3k for it. Ebay is has become almost good at hiding the Best Offer pricing, there's still one bug imho that reveals the actual transaction amount.

I was not the winner. I am not surprised that ebay has done what it can to hide the true sell value. Thanks for the update.

-Darren

[Steven Tribe]

Some more "front turn" Dallmeyers.

3D aluminium with black finish (somewhat "finished"!). Ebay 30253554708. Warning about seized soft control. 400 usd.

1A plain aluminium. Attractive. The flange thread (flange missing) is halfway up the barrel, so goodness knows how the "turn the barrel"system works. Edinburgh auction to- day. 763 usd (including fees).

2A brass "turn the barrel". The lot following on from the 1A. Attractive. Described as a ZA patent! 1044 usd.

The auctioneers in Edinburgh were obvious way out of their comfort zone. I am sure they have overloaded by people asking for better desciption of the lenses and explaining how to check the iris (another problem area with these!) and whether the barrel turns as it should. They had a nice selection of tropical cameras in the auction, but only a single photo of each lot (All cameras were closed!) nothing about condition.

[Amedeus]

The Monar is a pure Petzval design, not a soft focus design as we understand it. Yes, it has been called a soft focus design on this thread and we're guilty of propagating the myth ;-)

Cheers,

good prices. well, except the cooke maybe (wenn under market price in my opinion)...

didnt know the Monar was a soft focus lens(?) as far as i know its pure petzval design..?

the Hugo Meyer Goerlitz Schnellarbeiter (not Busch), were sold for solig prices. all went to one bidder (which i didnt know btw).