Voigtlander & Sohn No. 9, ca. 1875

[ghostcount]

...Eventually it was replaced by a 66" Cooke triplet, with 13" diameter glass, to search for and find the "Planet X." Here it is:

I wonder what happened to the right boxing glove.

[Jim Galli]

I wonder what happened to the right boxing glove.

The boxing glove is because it hurts like the dickens when you keep bumping your head on that thing. Ask me how I know this.

[codymobley]

Does anyone have a link to the auction mentioned above of the similar lens that was previously displayed in the Voigtlander museum?

I've gathered that this is a fairly rare lens.

[goamules]

Boxing gloves....that's what we needed on our Destroyer Escort. We were always ripping our arms on cable shielding of hitting our heads on junction boxes. I'm sure it's a kinder, gentler Navy now. You know...to take care of North Korea. Back to your regularly scheduled topic.

[Steven Tribe]

Does anyone have a link to the auction mentioned above of the similar lens that was previously displayed in the Voigtlander museum?

I've gathered that this is a fairly rare lens.

No.

But I can attach this reference with pictures and description to an old listing at Breker's auctions in Germany. If you contact Breker for more information, they will send better photographs. Quite quickly, probably, if you link them to this discussion or include a photo.

By the way, are you quite sure the wooden crate has always been with this lens?

Rare is not quite the right word! Although this size was in the published catalogues, it was not a stock item. They had the grinding/polishing tools at Braunschweig, perhaps even the optical glass - but they would have been made to order.

There has been more here about this lens here in August 2013 in the Soft Focus sales thread - including sales price. It is here:
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...mation/page194

Don't get too carried way with the eventual sale price! It didn't sell at an earlier auction so the market is very small.

There was a special serial number on one of these and the other one had provenance that it came from Voigtlandet's own collection.

Here is another link to a slightly smaller size from the same year as yours, sold at auction in 2006. This is about the maximum size actually used for normal photography

https://classic.liveauctioneers.com/...nd-sohn-vienna

[codymobley]

No worries, I have no interest in selling the lens. I'm mostly interested in any technical info associated with it. Two focal lengths have been provided in this thread as well as plate sizes, I'm hoping that it is the Petzval and not Euryscop lens as I can build a smaller camera and reducers.

Thanks for the help!

[Steven Tribe]

I think the concensus is that it is the no. 9 Petzval with a split barrel at the flange.

[Jody_S]

No worries, I have no interest in selling the lens. I'm mostly interested in any technical info associated with it. Two focal lengths have been provided in this thread as well as plate sizes, I'm hoping that it is the Petzval and not Euryscop lens as I can build a smaller camera and reducers.

Thanks for the help!

The lens is just about useless for photography. There may be a handful of people doing ultra large format who might be interested in mounting the lens on their cameras just to see, but you could count those people on the fingers of one hand. The real value of the lens is as a collector's item, and if you aren't a collector, I would advise selling it and using the proceeds to purchase lf gear you personally could use. Or a new car (a small one).

[Steven Tribe]

+1
There are no available cameras that can manage this without major modifications.

[goamules]

Cameras made out of panel vans, small trailers, and such are what people are doing with lenses this size, to make giant wetplates.