Steinheil Periskop prototype, pre-1865.
Early Steinheil Aplanat, a couple of years younger.
Nameless landscape doublet, age unknown.
And I use these - haven't used the prototype yet, but I'll have to try it.
Steinheil Periskop prototype, pre-1865.
Early Steinheil Aplanat, a couple of years younger.
Nameless landscape doublet, age unknown.
And I use these - haven't used the prototype yet, but I'll have to try it.
I have a Kodak 177mm f7 anastigmat that is uncoated and extremely sharp but I don't know it age. Does anyone have any idea how old this lens is?
Denise Libby
i have a low 5xxx serial number 11 inch voigtlander that is about 1852 or 1853
i also have three hermagis lenses. 8xxx, 94xx, 96xx that i would like to try and pin down but can not find what years.
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Here are a few of mine. I think either the Lerebours et Secretan or the CC Harrison is the oldest, both about 1851. The Lerebours is hard to date exactly. But I shot with it yesterday.
I have a nice little Ross from around 1900-1910 very small and lightweight!
CZ Jena Tessar, c. 1958-1960. Relatively speaking, it's a young whippersnapper!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/
Hi
One of my Petzvals may take the title in my Lens cupboard either a Lerebours et Secretan or one with a crest and J S or a landscape lens Swift & Son View 12x10 No620
which seems low.
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Sven
Too cool! get to see what's in other people's cabinets!
I have 3 fairly old lenses. Two are Jamin-Darlot cones 9" and 13" respectively. The 9" glass has 1860 on the glass and the 13" has 1862 on the glass. My unknown is a 21" Derogy and just checked...no dates...think small canon.
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I guess this one, a Ross Petzval from 1842/43, is now my oldest. Very sharp (in the center) and amazingly clean glass:
I even made a pair of stops for it:
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not the oldest , but is this the oldest dallmeyer around , serial no 1204 -1860?(pic of it somewhere on this forum)http://www.flickr.com/photos/voigtf64/
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