Steve Hamley
21-Aug-2011, 06:55
Folks,
First, thanks to Dan Fromm and Mark Sampson who commented in my thread on the Carl Meyer Tessar.
It's a rainy Sunday morning here, so let's look at a Tessar that I have never seen another like, or even heard of. I may have commented sometime in the past about this lens, but a quick search did not find it and I'm fairly sure I haven't posted an image.
The lens is an uncoated 32 cm f:5.5 Schneider Xenar, and like the Carl Meyer, I really bought it for the Compound #4 shutter and the adapter, and found it too nice and unusual to cannibalize. I don't think I've seen another f:5.5 Xenar. The serial dates it to about 1939 as best I can tell, and the cool extended adapter was originally mounted on an early Technika board, 6x9 I believe, and I had S.K. Grimes remount it on the pictured Tech IV clone board.
Another unusual thing is - no schneideritis at all, not even a hint! The glass is as clean and clear as the day it was made.
So tessar and old lens people, does anyone know anything about it? Speculation anyone?
Cheers, Steve
First, thanks to Dan Fromm and Mark Sampson who commented in my thread on the Carl Meyer Tessar.
It's a rainy Sunday morning here, so let's look at a Tessar that I have never seen another like, or even heard of. I may have commented sometime in the past about this lens, but a quick search did not find it and I'm fairly sure I haven't posted an image.
The lens is an uncoated 32 cm f:5.5 Schneider Xenar, and like the Carl Meyer, I really bought it for the Compound #4 shutter and the adapter, and found it too nice and unusual to cannibalize. I don't think I've seen another f:5.5 Xenar. The serial dates it to about 1939 as best I can tell, and the cool extended adapter was originally mounted on an early Technika board, 6x9 I believe, and I had S.K. Grimes remount it on the pictured Tech IV clone board.
Another unusual thing is - no schneideritis at all, not even a hint! The glass is as clean and clear as the day it was made.
So tessar and old lens people, does anyone know anything about it? Speculation anyone?
Cheers, Steve