Beautiful lens - nice restoration ...and never seen before. Any idea about when it was made?
<edit> found the year 1887, i.e. a catalogue mentioning it as the 'Single Combination Lens' at the beautiful website of Larry Pierce: http://piercevaubel.com/cam/catalogi...6-27-small.jpg
Last edited by Ron (Netherlands); 6-Oct-2020 at 02:30.
After receiving a box with camera parts and some lens parts, 'I found' some pieces that exactly fit together. Its a very tiny lens - likely for the 1/4 plate format - and I think it can be considered as a landscape lens looking at its different parts. On several parts there is a little 'U' engraved as can be seen in the 2nd photo.
The lens is not complete since it is missing its pinion with which one should be able to focus the lens. Further it has a tiny slot near its rim at the diaphragm hole, supposedly for little WHS (guess the slot is too small for a wheel stop).
Only after cleaning the different parts I found a little makers/dealers shield which reads: J L & S Opticiens B. So I guess this leads to J. Lancaster & Son in Birmingham:
My favorite Wollaston is made from the lens of an old Kodak Brownie No.2-C Model A. It is an achromatic 144mm focal length meniscus. I remounted it to fit on a 4x5 camera normally used for pinhole photography. Some more details about the lens and the Wollaston in general can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/wollas...cape-lens/home
Here's me figuring out how to make a lensboard my Suter...a Aplanat, I believe...
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
All very interesting and made easy to understand
Excellent diagrams and images really help
I am now going to try my New Wollaston 790 mm again. I have had it for years. I lost interest when I was soundly thrashed by the maker and others on this forum when I made focus mistakes and posted the images, A crime it seems...
I hope you provide more discussions like this one
Thank you!
Tin Can
I will amend my comment about the maker, I think I was his first 790 mm customer
I suppose he was disappointed to see my image
Which may have affected sales...
Tin Can
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