Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

[Mark Sawyer]

So the RV has been discovered by at least two people as an alternative to the RVP!

I'd guess you're right Steven! There's always been funny pricing on these, the RV usually goes for quite a bit less than the RVP, which in turn usually goes for quite a bit less than the Cooke Achromatic Portrait, even though all three are the very same lens. The RV doesn't open quite as wide as the others, but the wise user knows to simply unscrew the aperture mechanism completely, giving the RV the same maximum aperture as the others. I have two Cooke casket sets with RV's, one in a standard barrel, and one in a very short barrel made to fit into an aperture mechanism that extends it to full length. Using that version with only the short barrel greatly increases coverage, although the corners are very soft. It appears Cooke made quite a few variations of their casket sets...

Garrett has a good thread on them here:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...Pictorial-lens

[8x10 user]

Whomever purchased lot Lot # 0523 - Large Lot of Lenses (for Restoration and Spare Parts)

Please send me a PM when you get the items.

I am looking for a front aperture for a Dallmeyer Bergheim (the 12-20" model).

[Steven Tribe]

Bidding on these mixed large lots is really only for floor bidders who can ensure the part they need is really there amongst the scrap brass! I won the Hermagis (12" long, 4" lens) Convertible, which, according to the description and email response, should have the front achromat!

I suppose you all saw the forged "J.Voightlander" with a low serial number? Serial number in the wrong position, Name initial wrong, no "& Sohn" or "Wien"!

[8x10 user]

I got the small casket set and the Bergheim no 2, both seem like a good price to me

I took these with the 12-20" version.

[Steven Tribe]

Yes, that was a very good price for the very clean set. I picked mine up as a loose (but complete) casket-less set some years ago from Australia! The RV's came after Hermagis, so I had already used my self imposed quota for March. I have got into the objectif d'artiste and Eidoscope, so too late to start the other alternative.

And yes, pictorial lenses are very good outdoors as you show us!

I forgot there was also a boxed Imagon 250mm set which went for very little. Breker have a policy of the hammer price being unavailable a few hours after the end of the auction, so I can no longer confirm that is was around 150€! LATER: This was the starting bid, but I can see it was passed.

Lot 472 was interesting/challenging. It was a large Vallantin petzval. Dated by Breker to 1858. It had an apparently later (after Dallmeyer's patent date!) WHS cut out and the I to IIII groves on the outer rear ring, like the Dallmeyer patent. Described by Breker as a soft adjustment lens. There is no join in the rear lens cell so unscrewing will take out the whole double lens assembly.

Ebay 322454306066. Cooke series VI 15.5" "as new" but minus flange. Post WW2, so coated. 2000€.

Added 10 April:
Dallmeyer 3D, later design, very good with original card case - but no flange. A recent sale record at 1907 usd. 262905941037.

[angusparker]

Jan 12, 2017: Port-Land 11.5" 5.6 w/ Pentax 67 adaptor for $1,000.00. Lens in very good condition given age, iris very smooth.
182330997962

[Amedeus]

Antique Bausch & Lomb Optical Co Camera Lens 15 In. E. F. Plastigmat Portrait with missing iris and front lens for $212.5 (391742088590)

Portrait Art Plasticca brass vintage lens 3.5/450mm #18712 for $1599 (BOBIN, 401010807398)

Some older sales:

Very nice looking TT&H Cooke 10.5 Inch f4.5 Series II for $1598 (BIN, 122305423242)

Nice looking 15" F/5.6 Spencer Portland soft focus for $1800 (BIN, 142334549624)

PORT-LAND 9'" SOFT FOCUS F 4.5 for $919 (292067046621)

Wollensak Velostigmat Series II 15 1/2 F4.5 Soft Focus on Deardorff lensboard in Studio Shutter for $550 (182506093050)

Dallmeyer London 6D #46359 Brass Lens, no flange, for $4,970 (BIN, 401299036838)

Cooke 12.1 Inch f3.5 Series II.A Brass Portrait Lens for $1,780 (BIN, 351892043827)

VOIGTLANDER UNIVERSAL-HELIAR 1:4.5 / 42 CM for $3,220 (112304465630)

wollensak vitax #1 petzval lens in studio shutter for $998 (132094655192)

Wollensak Velostigmat Series II 12" F4.5 8x10 Variable Soft Focus Lens with few dings for $199 (302207800661)

[pierre506]

Grad Variable Anastigmat f4.5-5.6 8.5-9.5in
112367960855
USD 309.88

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[Mark Sawyer]

I picked up a cute little oddity on ebay, a 7-inch Velostigmat Series II with the diffusion adjustment. Wollensak advertised that only the 9.5-inch and longer Velostigmats were available with the fuzz-ulator dial, but this is the second I've seen in a shorter version (in more than ten years), so they must have made a few shorter ones. $183.50 +$7.35 s&h, (311851182117).

I also noticed a Velner Soft Focus Lens Ser.I No.3 F=9in f4.5, which I've never heard of before. Possibly a rebadged Velostigmat Series II or Ilex Paragon Series A? Mounted in an older Copal 3, $224.50 + $30 s%h, (182542977381).

[goamules]

That Velo will be cool. It seems hard to official soft focus lenses for anything small.