Help me to identify this lens, and more important. The format for this.

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/z/PJwAAOxygPtS5-32/$_12.JPG

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/mLgAAOxycmBS5-37/$_12.JPG

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/PicAAOxyRhBS5-4A/$_12.JPG

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/G7YAAOxy63FS5-4F/$_12.JPG

Help me to know the format and info from this lens.
Please!

First post and a bunch of strange looking links - I think I'll pass. Sorry, but you might want to introduce yourself a little better, or everyone will be afraid the links are Malware or otherwise spam.

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Originally Posted by goamules

First post and a bunch of strange looking links - I think I'll pass. Sorry, but you might want to introduce yourself a little better, or everyone will be afraid the links are Malware or otherwise spam.

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Very well, My name is Henri Salmi and im starting up in Large Format. Im looking for my first LF Camera and im looking an old lens that would fit in.
So the links are straight to ebay in photos of the lens im curious about, is an old brasslens. Help needed. IS NOT SPAM! Thankyou!

I'd suggest writing up some details from the listing here, or, like Garrett, I won't go near those links. They just don't look right...

Here's the ebay link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-BRAS...item4d1821362a

It's just a little Busch Rathenow Aplanat (aka Rapid Rectilinear) in a brass pneumatic shutter. The focal length is 6 1/2 inches, so maybe 4x5 coverage at best...

Rauber&Wollensak

focus = 6 1/2
Buch detectiv aplanat

For the skeptics, go to the big auction site and search using item number: 331117311530

I found it by searching for 'aplanet'.

I'll stay aside and not push the price up as it appears unsuitable for 8 x 10. It looks to be a pleasant wonder is working as described.

yes, covering 8 x 10 is unlikely

4 x 5 definitely and also either element can be used solely when longer focal lengths will be obtained, plus larger formats too

andrew

Busch had a history of using American shutters and made a well selling casket set with the B&L Unicum.

These shutter are not particularly accurate after 100 years.