Post your wacky lens ads, auctions, sales!

[Dan Fromm]

Two beauties from the same seller:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prinz-Copal-...item46067237ad

Prinz = Yamasaki, not Rodenstock. f/4.5 tessar type <> Sironar. Unless, that is, I'm badly mistaken.


And it gets worse: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Linhof-Synch...item4606724845

The lens' maximum aperture is f/3.5, the shutter's largest engraved stop is f/4.5. The Helomar is a triplet, was used on, among others, 6x9 Bessa folders. No way will a 10.5 cm/3.5 triplet cover 4x5.

I have in front of me a 10.5 cm/3.5 Helomar s/n 2146913 in Compur Rapid #0 s/n 5317467; per P-H Pont's chronologies, the lens is from 1937-8, the shutter from 1938. The lens on offer is s/n 2180728, per Pont also '37-8.

Now we know how to transform any old lens into a Linhof presumably select one. Put it in a shutter engraved Linhof. I had no idea it was as simple as that.

[Louis Pacilla]

Browsing CL & I ran into this in my home town and what a deal!

Simply crazy.

BTW- I know this not a" lens only" sale but it's just so EXTREME I thought it worth a chuckle.

[Two23]

OK, I got another one. For 300 bucks, how could you go wrong?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Voigtlander-...item1c2a460bea



Kent in SD

[Dan Fromm]

OK, I got another one. For 300 bucks, how could you go wrong?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Voigtlander-...item1c2a460bea

Kent in SD

If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs.

[Proteus617]

OK, I got another one. For 300 bucks, how could you go wrong?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Voigtlander-...item1c2a460bea



Kent in SD

Wish that was $50 instead of $300. I would buy that in a hot minute. You could epoxy a glass beaker inside and drink you coffee from classic Voigtlander glass every morning.

[goamules]

Air Lens! Woooh! Air Lens!

[E. von Hoegh]

OK, I got another one. For 300 bucks, how could you go wrong?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Voigtlander-...item1c2a460bea





Kent in SD

You would go 100 times as wrong as you would for 3 bucks. Which is about what that piece of crap is worth.

[E. von Hoegh]

Air Lens! Woooh! Air Lens!

An early attempt to reduce flare.

[E. von Hoegh]

Guys, this might actually be salvageable...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kodak-Portra...item53ee4e4083 I think there's already glass in the bbl.

Same seller as the Voigtlaender paperweight.

[goamules]

It's not really a "wacky" ad, just a mistaken seller. Just because a brass lens says Chevalier doesn't mean it's THE Chevalier from the 1840s. The listed lens was made in the 1870s by a manufacturer that just used that name to help their sales. No relation to the early lensmaker, and very low budget. 350579153082

Attachment 77119

Ah...we meet again Monsieur Fake Chevalier. 130748008517 Same seller, only says "the original buyer didn't follow through" (yeah, I can imagine why). But still says it's an 1830s Daguerreotype lens. It's not.