How rare are Karl Struss pictorial len's?

[Brian Bullen]

Wow!! Amazing find and I'm so glad no one threw it away. Not sure how many were made but yours looks really clean. Please post some of the polaroids for use to drool over.

[Louis Pacilla]

Time for a Sinar shutter!

Ya, Right...

[Toyon]

Wow, that's beautiful! Is that the first "smiley face" engraved into the lens between the 12 and the F? If so, that's an even more important find.

[Jan Pedersen]

Think we need to send some first aid over to Jim's house

[Jim Galli]

Think we need to send some first aid over to Jim's house

Been out doing field work most of today. I just finished a book about Karl Struss. He's an interesting study. Imogen Cunningham remarked in her book about people still doing productive work after the age of 90 that she found it a conumdrum how a conservative republican could have achieved a lifetime of creativity almost unmatched. This bias I understand.

No one really knows how rare the lens is. I'll make an educated guess that it is very uncommon. I've seen 3 in my years watching Ebay but that is hit and miss at best.

Suffice to say I cannot live without it. Contact me for a dazzling offer I'm seriously breaking the 10th commandment!

[Mark Woods]

Sweet! Already mounted on a Sinar board. ;-)

[C. D. Keth]

Any pictures taken with it? I'm more interested in pictures with the lens than picture of it.

[tpersin]

Ah Ha!

so you were the guy who beat me to the that kit here in SW PA!

it was listed on Craigslist for only $125! for everything a 5x7" Seneca, the struss, and some other stuff.... what a steal... (it came with a packard shutter too!)

enjoy!
tom

[Charles Hohenstein]

I would love to know the optical construction of the lens. Any chance that a person could make one of these with lens elements available today? I suspect that it is very simple.

[Ole Tjugen]

Single meniscus lens, fused silica glass? You can't get much simpler than that!

The only question is the curvatures...