Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

[Paul Fitzgerald]

Looks like Wollensak is finally getting the respect they deserve:

Wollensak-Velostigmat-Series-II-12-f4-5-Adj-Soft-Focus

[goamules]

Looks like Wollensak is finally getting the respect they deserve:...

Perhaps. But what is the average sale? There are always abberations, even with other Tessars:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300499726600

[CCHarrison]

Velo II's typically sell in the $ 275-450 range. That auction is not typical, although there was solid seller with a good description of the item

Dan

[Hugo Zhang]

There is a Dallmeyer 3D sold this morning for over $3,000.

[Jim Galli]

There is a Dallmeyer 3D sold this morning for over $3,000.

That's just aberrant! Maybe a case of 6 new ones is worth that much

[Mark Sawyer]

There is a Dallmeyer 3D sold this morning for over $3,000.

If it was this one, :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...AA%3AUS%3A1123

then it was the f/3 3B, not the less-desireable f/6 3D. Still, a very high price, even for such a lovely lens. The seller advertised it as an 8x10 lens, although Dallmeyer catalogs listed the 1920's 3B as for cabinet size. Anyone know if the 3B underwent a focal-length change?

And GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY, I have a $3,000 lens sitting in my cabinet!!! I'd better get that thing out and use it!

[Jim Galli]

If it was this one, :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...AA%3AUS%3A1123

then it was the f/3 3B, not the less-desireable f/6 3D. Still, a very high price, even for such a lovely lens. The seller advertised it as an 8x10 lens, although Dallmeyer catalogs listed the 1920's 3B as for cabinet size. Anyone know if the 3B underwent a focal-length change?

And GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY, I have a $3,000 lens sitting in my cabinet!!! I'd better get that thing out and use it!

You've heard of poetic license?? Well, there's EBAY license and some sellers use it to the max. I've got a 3B that's coated and covers 11X14 that I'll sell to the the first guy with $2500!

[Steven Tribe]

Back to real life.
A clean Verito 11 1/2" sold at the auction house LM Sweden to-day for 3000 SEK (including commission) = USD 430.
But this included a very nice mahogany 18x24cm Tailback "Resekamera" in super condition and a full set of plate holders. So perhaps USD200 for the Verito?
Some soft lenses are still sold on cameras!

[gandolfi]

230558518873

same seller as the Dallmeyer. Member here....

$2,447.92 For a "SUTER RAPID PORTRAIT NO. 5 - PORTRAIT PETZVAL F/3.75"

he calls it soft focus...:
"..this Petzval delivers more like a Verito 14.5 softfocus than the Dallmeyer B -"....

[Steven Tribe]

Not a nice way to end a pleasant weekend!

- Bidding pattern and Bidder's record (?) unsettles me.
- Has taken a leaf out of the book of you-know-who's recent listings.
- Since when have Petzvals become soft lenses?

But a very nice Petzval and he has done his homework and found the right quotes.

I have discovered that he has taken complete sections out of CCHarrisons soft lens articles without any sort of quotation marks. Nasty.