Dallmeyer No.3 Rectilinear

[onnect17]

While walking Brimfield today I got a close look in one Century 10 Studio camera with a wide angle lens. Does anybody knows of photographers using this type of wide angle lens for group portraits?

[Steven Tribe]

A no.3 Dallmeyer Rectilinear could be:

- the New Rectilinear Lanscape lens (patent). This is 13.5" efl and 2 inches lens diameter covering 8x10 plus OR
- WA Rectilinear (patent). the no. 3 covers 16x18". EFL is 13".

Dallmeyer's adverts only mention landscape use for both - but then they had lots of faster lenses available!

[goamules]

If it's the Wide Angle Rectilinear, I have a no. 3, which is a very interesting lens. I would buy it if you can.

[onnect17]

Thanks guys for the info. It called my attention enough to talk to the seller. He was interested in selling the whole set (camera with lens and stand) but driving a Yaris the stand is not an option. Besides, I do not have conditions nor space for the stand at home. The selling point was he mention some buyers were asking for the stand to put a TV on it. Very upsetting! You have to see the amount of NY women looking for tripod-lamps. Just painful!

Anyways, left the place with the camera and the lens.

The serial number is 47242. It's recorded in the Dallmeyer archives. (Very useful site. Kudos to the owner for sharing the info)

According to the seller, the photographer was located in central/west side of the state (MA).

I will post some pics later using the phone. I am writing using the Dell Venue and the camera sucks.

[onnect17]

I have to clean it.

[Louis Pacilla]

Don't clean the brass so much that it loses the patina. That's my suggestion.

[Steven Tribe]

Unless the stand is a very special one, there is no reason why it shouldn't fit in a Yaris!

I have moved both the Century/Kodak bipost stand and the Victorian furniture type along with Studio Cameras in a small FIAT Panda - the same car size. The Bipost can become quite thin on removal of a couple of sets of bolts.

I think it is the WA no. 3, but Garrett will confirm.

[onnect17]

Thanks Louis, I will read a little about cleaning before I touch the lens.

Thanks Steven, I think is a bipost. I will get back with some tools and hopefully was not sold.

[Steven Tribe]

I think both the Century and the Agfa/Ansco (not so many of these) biposts come apart with the bolts holding the base cast iron frame. The tilting mechanism has to released at one end to enable the table to be in the same plane as the upright posts. The spring system can remain as it is under transport (and perhaps storage).

[Steven Tribe]

As you probably found out, it IS the WA rectilinear. Made by Mitchell, Collins and Arthur Frampton and finished in December 1889. The first of a serial run of 11 identical lenses - probably a bulk order from the USA.