Neil Purling
25-Mar-2009, 07:05
What optical design was this lens?
I went to the Beck isle Museum of Rural Life in Pickering, N. Yorkshire (that's UK of course.
A local photographer and his work is prominently displayed. His equipment is tasty. I liked the 10x12 tailboard camera. He had a special tripod for this which was some 20ft tall, the photographer standing on a platform attached to it in order to work the camera.
He also had a box camera, which looked home made but had a monster 770mm Voightlander Euryscop. It is a impressive peice of brassware. If the camera was a 10x12 or a 8x10 the extra long focal length suggests a Petzval type using the centre sweet spot.
I went to the Beck isle Museum of Rural Life in Pickering, N. Yorkshire (that's UK of course.
A local photographer and his work is prominently displayed. His equipment is tasty. I liked the 10x12 tailboard camera. He had a special tripod for this which was some 20ft tall, the photographer standing on a platform attached to it in order to work the camera.
He also had a box camera, which looked home made but had a monster 770mm Voightlander Euryscop. It is a impressive peice of brassware. If the camera was a 10x12 or a 8x10 the extra long focal length suggests a Petzval type using the centre sweet spot.