50 years from now .... Ask your question or respond !

[goamules]

I'll start with : What will the population of Earth will be and how many of them will be searching and how much they will be willing to pay for a Struss ?

The real question is how many people can FIND a Struss Pictorial Lens? The supply and demand equation is usually weighted towards the demand.

But I'll give a case study. In about 2007 I started looking for a Struss lens. I look hard, I look well, I traveled to different continents, I networked with famous (back then) collectors. After about 5 years I finally found....one....and bought it. Demand was low, but supply was even lower. Since that time, I have seen exactly ....none for sale. Doesn't mean they aren't, but like Jim did, they are traded in smokey rooms with briefcases of money. Like Bugatti cars!

Who was Struss? A very famous American, back then.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/19/o...tographer.html
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[goamules]

Back to the question of asking questions:

"What will be the ratio of lens owners will be collectors to users?" (Hint: today it's about 1:3. In 50 years, when there is no film, how many photographers will there be?)

[Jac@stafford.net]

Just how unique is a Struss lens among the rest of soft-focus lenses?

[Alan Gales]

I don't know anything about a Struss but in 50 years if we are still alive we may need a Truss.

[jp]

Just how unique is a Struss lens among the rest of soft-focus lenses?

Only two photographers on flickr have posted images made with Struss lens.
I've been to a couple soft focus workshops and seen healthy numbers of Kodak Portraits, Veritos, P&S, Imagons, and only one Struss lens.
(I am the only photographer on flickr using a Gundlach Hyperion, which I've only seen for sale one other time)
There is a thread here you could search for Struss sales... Some of them are probably the same lens changing hands.

[Jim Galli]

The struss IS unique. It is not a doublet. Not an achromat. Struss solved those problems mathematically by it's shape. For lack of better words, it's shaped like a little mexican hat. It uses a controlled coma for softness. In the highlights the coma is directional.

[Tin Can]

I had that fixed a year ago!

I don't know anything about a Struss but in 50 years if we are still alive we may need a Truss.

[ederphoto]

Before 50 years can pass someone will do the math for every lens design and have a computer program that can simulate the aberrations on an I-phone. Or a galaxy 8 even better. The Struss will have already been worthless because the Chinese will produce them by the thousands. You'll simply go get one on Ebay for 28.88 with free shipping. The better I-phone program will also factor in Eastman Royal Pan or whatever you tell it to. Then you can dial in some dust spots and a human hair or two to really make it look like Jim's photos.

BTW, someone here talked me out of one of the two Struss' recently :~')) '57 Thunderbird money. They are lovely items. Noble at this point in time.

The real answer is you will have experienced Revelation 6 - 19 before that time. Fasten your seat belts.

What two Struss Jim ? Don't tell me they came up for auction and I missed them ?

[Jim Fitzgerald]

What two Struss Jim ? Don't tell me they came up for auction and I missed them ?

I know where one went :-)

[Tin Can]

Lol

i know where one went :-)