Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

[Emil Schildt]

Dallmeyer 3D
US $590

140914789143

[Steven Tribe]

281062598826

Dallmeyer 6D (or perhaps a 3B).

This lens has lost it's sleeve and thus it's passport (and value) - but the glass looks OK!
430usd.
I'll get back to you when I can confirm the model.
There was also an American petzval that had these rear cell markings?
Sometimes you have to take risks!

[cyberjunkie]

<There are a few other SF lenses that are shuttered and coated. The Kodak Portrait Lens, Imagon, and Fujinon SF lenses come to mind... >

And there are post-war Cooke 2E's (well not shuttered originally!) and Universal Heliars - as well as the lenses that passed through B & J.

Of course both of you are right
My words didn't reflect what i had in mind... the words "classic" and "cheap" were left in my keyboard...

BTW, i own all of them, but the Universal Heliar (coated or uncoated, it's out of my reach!) and the Kodak Portrait.
I think i will continue to crave for a 16" Kodak Portrait in barrel, with little chances to find a reasonably priced one.
IMHO, many Kodak large format lenses are definitely overpriced.
Even an humble 8" f/7.7 is more expensive than any likely competitor, as it is the Kodak Portrait vs. the Imagon, or the Commercial Ektar vs. its Ilex copy.

[alex from holland]

281062598826

Dallmeyer 6D (or perhaps a 3B).

This lens has lost it's sleeve and thus it's passport (and value) - but the glass looks OK!
430usd.
I'll get back to you when I can confirm the model.
There was also an American petzval that had these rear cell markings?
Sometimes you have to take risks!

Damm, i have been looking for a 6 d for a longer time now.
Congrats!

[Jim Galli]

Pretty sure that was a 5D. I considered it too. Good buy at that $$ is I'm right.

281062598826

Dallmeyer 6D (or perhaps a 3B).

This lens has lost it's sleeve and thus it's passport (and value) - but the glass looks OK!
430usd.
I'll get back to you when I can confirm the model.
There was also an American petzval that had these rear cell markings?
Sometimes you have to take risks!

[Steven Tribe]

Jim, he showed the circumference with a tape measure.

It was 12.4" which gives a diameter of 3.94".

Dallmeyer used to give the barrel diameter of the D's (1891) and the 5D was 3 1/4" and the 6D was 4".
But the 3A was also 4" and the barrel I cut for my 3B cells was also 4" (the "turn the front" model, which I believe is slightly larger than the sleeve/notch version)!

I could use a 5/6 D but have a well functioning 3B already.

The info which came late in the listing (to my great regret!) , saying it had been mounted on a 11x14 Deardorf, suggests the longer focus D's. But then, not many 11x14's continued to be used for this size format!

[Amedeus]

CMM and laser interferometry. As for methodology, equipment used and results one will have to wait till I publish the paper and I'm far from done yet ;-)

Please tell how you measured the curvature to determine that thay are "hand adjusted".

TAG

[Jim Galli]

Jim, he showed the circumference with a tape measure.

It was 12.4" which gives a diameter of 3.94".

Dallmeyer used to give the barrel diameter of the D's (1891) and the 5D was 3 1/4" and the 6D was 4".
But the 3A was also 4" and the barrel I cut for my 3B cells was also 4" (the "turn the front" model, which I believe is slightly larger than the sleeve/notch version)!

I could use a 5/6 D but have a well functioning 3B already.

The info which came late in the listing (to my great regret!) , saying it had been mounted on a 11x14 Deardorf, suggests the longer focus D's. But then, not many 11x14's continued to be used for this size format!

I used a much simpler method. About 3 1/4 inch across the front glass X6 = 19 1/2" which I figured a 5D. Did you buy it?

[Steven Tribe]

Oh yes - couldn't resist!

If it turns out to be a 3B, I will have the problem (?) of finding someone who hasn't got a 3B already!

[Emil Schildt]

Oh yes - couldn't resist!

If it turns out to be a 3B, I will have the problem (?) of finding someone who hasn't got a 3B already!

me....