Miscl. Meniscii

[David Lobato]

Last Saturday, magnifying glass 13 inch focal length meniscus on 8x10 Deardorff, black hat shutter, f4 aperture with the lens board's Copal 3 hole. 13 inches/333mm is -3 diopter?

[David Aimone]

Stuck one element from a movie projector lens onto a lens board and happy with the results!

[Jim Galli]

Both David's. Very nice! Like granny's hair in the picture offset by the white hair on the cat other end. Aimone, was the movie projector one of the old petzval types and you used the front doublet?

[Scott --]

Not sure if these qualify, but as there are some magnifying glass images, here are a couple from a $1 7" lens a while back:

img313 by Scott, on Flickr

img206 by Scott, on Flickr

[plaubel]

""Miscl. Meniscii ""

Can anybody tell me please: what does "Miscl." mean?
Meniscus plural is clear to me.

Thanks,
Ritchie

[Jim Galli]

Non standard abbreviation for miscellaneous. Sorry.

""Miscl. Meniscii ""

Can anybody tell me please: what does "Miscl." mean?
Meniscus plural is clear to me.

Thanks,
Ritchie

[plaubel]

Jim, I have learned so much about crazy and not crazy lenses from you; thanks for this, and thanks for the translation of miscl, too.

Ritchie

[David Aimone]

I <think> it was a front element from a brass Super Snaplite Kollmorgen Optical projector lens.

Both David's. Very nice! Like granny's hair in the picture offset by the white hair on the cat other end. Aimone, was the movie projector one of the old petzval types and you used the front doublet?

[ImSoNegative]

One I shot the other day, 200mm Imagon

Darla by john golden, on Flickr

[Jim Galli]

I <think> it was a front element from a brass Super Snaplite Kollmorgen Optical projector lens.

That's basically what my Secret Weapon lens on my pages was. Is. I still have it. So many lenses, so little time.