View Full Version : New article on Böhmke Lenses !
CCHarrison
29-Aug-2012, 05:25
Please see
http://antiquecameras.net/bohmkelenses.html
thanks
Dan
evan clarke
29-Aug-2012, 05:43
Excellent....
Steven Tribe
29-Aug-2012, 06:43
Indeed excellent!
Without an American importer believing in advertising, this information would have never appeared.
I can understand Voigtländer's pique! Böhmke must have started his competetion during the period when Hans Sommer was developing the RRs - soon to become Euryskops. I see he even mimiked the decorative serial number. At this time, patent laws were difficult to enforce across the Atlantic.
Interesting. I have a Dagor labelled Gennert, I'm still trying to figure out who made it. I suspect it was post-Böhmke though.
E. von Hoegh
29-Aug-2012, 07:39
Interesting. I have a Dagor labelled Gennert, I'm still trying to figure out who made it. I suspect it was post-Böhmke though.
Do you have a picture you could post?
Jim Fitzgerald
29-Aug-2012, 07:54
Dan, great read thanks.
Do you have a picture you could post?
Of course.
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E. von Hoegh
29-Aug-2012, 08:51
How do you know that's a Dagor?
Steven Tribe
29-Aug-2012, 13:14
There is a 9 1/2" (240mm) Dagor (series III) but it is a No. 4.
E. von Hoegh
29-Aug-2012, 13:18
I found a mention that the Gennet Sylvar was a 3+3 anastigmat, but no info. on the construction. I have 2 series III no.4 Dagors, one a 9 1/2" and one 240mm.
How do I know it's a Dagor? I have 3 other Dagors; curves, reflections, construction, etc. appear to be identical. The photographs I take with this are very similar to the other one I've used the most, a 120mm I use on 4x5.
The VM mentions the Sylvar is a 3+3, and mentions that it might be a Dagor. I don't really care what I call it, or what name appears on the rim, I bought it to take photos and so far it is doing very well in that regard. I admit I am pleased that I may have bought a Dagor off of fleabay for $36, but that's a pretty good buy for any lens that covers 8x10 (I know there's a thread somewhere to the effect that a 9-1/2" Dagor doesn't really cover 8x10, and I fully agree with that assessment, it needs to be stopped down to f32 and the corners are fuzzy).
CCHarrison
29-Aug-2012, 16:12
Here is your Sylvar information, and yes its a 3+3 lens.
Dan
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Here is your Sylvar information, and yes its a 3+3 lens.
Dan
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I think people have taken the "Jena glass" part of that advertisement to mean that it was made by Zeiss. I don't know what other lens-makers were active in Jena, or if Zeiss sold optical glass to other manufacturers. Coverage is exactly as the price list indicates, when open my #5 vignettes on 8x10.
CCHarrison
29-Aug-2012, 16:38
Here is an entire book written on "Jena Glass (http://books.google.com/books?id=o8o3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=jena+glass&source=bl&ots=1AZT6rnLJV&sig=uJdkVaBxfSi65AkhAOL60zCLsgc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lKY-ULWDKonw0gHHgIGwCw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=photographic&f=false)" See page 95 for specifics about photographic use of Jena glass.
Dan
Dan Fromm
29-Aug-2012, 17:24
I think that Jena glass refers to glass made by Schott, see http://www.us.schott.com/english/company/corporate_history/?highlighted_text=history
E. von Hoegh
30-Aug-2012, 07:17
I think that Jena glass refers to glass made by Schott, see http://www.us.schott.com/english/company/corporate_history/?highlighted_text=history
Yes, in the early 1890s "Jena Glass" was a buzz phrase.
E. von Hoegh
30-Aug-2012, 07:36
I think people have taken the "Jena glass" part of that advertisement to mean that it was made by Zeiss. I don't know what other lens-makers were active in Jena, or if Zeiss sold optical glass to other manufacturers. Coverage is exactly as the price list indicates, when open my #5 vignettes on 8x10.
My Ser.III No.4 Dagors neither vignette nor have fuzzy corners on 8x10.
Jena glass refers to Schott Jena, not Zeiss.
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