Some Soft Focus Lens Sales Information

[analoguey]

Wouldnt it be possible to move the specific Lens thread out? It would be more topical and easier to find for anyone looking for information on the web?
/suggestion.

Right now, easier for me here - as I have one less thread to subscribe!

[Amedeus]

Dallmeyer 3A for $4,275 (BIN, 161184241214)

Cooke 13" Series VI Soft Focus for $669 (201038538928)

Wollensak 14 1/2" Verito for $493 (321323181552)

Cooke 13" Series VI Soft Focus for $593 (321316944505)

Kodak 305mm Portrait Lens for $615 (360863347842)

[cyberjunkie]

Capi Amateur Plasticca 15cm f/4.5 - CELLS ONLY
Ebay # 151225264609
100 USD

I know nothing about "Amateur Plasticca", but i know that the other Plasticca, Kronar, etc. have just one cell...
From the picture the back cell looks a bit different, like it's coming from a different objective.
The parcel should be at my mother's address by now, so when i will get there, i will inspect the cells personally, and see how they look "de visu".
I have seen on Ebay a small Plasticca adapted for cine use. It was not long ago, as far as i remember it had an even shorter focal, but was not branded "Amateur".
I bought the lens with the hope that i would get enough coverage for the 4x5" format. If not, given the price i payed, i would be content to use it on bellows with my Pentax 6x7.
I was amazed that just after the purchase, i received an offer for 500 USD!
It's plenty of money for a lens cell(s). I didn't follow soft focus lens sales during 2013, but i feel that prices haven't gone down... :-)



UPDATE:
Sorry, searching for "Amateur Plasticca" (thus removing "Capi" from the search string)
brought this picture:

Oskar Zwierzina Dresden Amateur Plasticca 1:4,5 F=150mm

Definitely there are TWO cells!
Now i am very curious... why on earth the only two examples i have found have loose cells, without barrel?

IIRC, the Capi Plasticcas were made in Holland, in the city of Nijmegen i think. Though i was totally unaware of the "Amateur" version, with two cells!
I am sure somebody knows much, much more about these lenses... i'm holding my breath and waiting :-)

[Steven Tribe]

This is certainly new to me - but I can't say I am surprised! The engraving style is identical with the other German and Lowlands versions.
It was not uncommon for makers to list extra smaller sizes for, for instance 9x12, as "amateur" versions. Voigtländer made a minor and major "Amateur Euryskop".

I doubt these are two lenses. Probably a yellow filter (which could be replaced by one in better condition!) and the real lens.
The plasticca used to be a budget item, remember!

[jp]

Bausch & Lomb Sigmar 16" soft-ish lens went for $1499. ebay 271405503145
that's some serious money and a serious lens. (packard shutter included)

[Jim Galli]

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I bet it doesn't.... (mine hasn't) BUT you can actually see notch nr 3 onth every right of your image! they are placed on that rigde where the lock also is located... (see the little image)

I have a 3A identical to Gandolfi with the notch and latch assy.

[Jim Galli]

Bausch & Lomb Sigmar 16" soft-ish lens went for $1499. ebay 271405503145
that's some serious money and a serious lens. (packard shutter included)

If you were next in line bidder I have identical I would sell for that money. Never made an image with it. Bad Jim

[jp]

If you were next in line bidder I have identical I would sell for that money. Never made an image with it. Bad Jim

I've got one already and it's a wonderful smooth lens. It's what I use once in a while with my 4x5 speed graphic shutter in front of my 8x10 camera.

[Jim Galli]

I've got one already and it's a wonderful smooth lens. It's what I use once in a while with my 4x5 speed graphic shutter in front of my 8x10 camera.

Need to schedule some time for that beastie. Feel bad that I've not used it. I DO use my lenses, mostly.

[goamules]

I've not looked it up recently, but do you recall if the Sigmar is a triplet? I'm wondering if it's the same as a F3.5 Wollensak Varium I have. I happen to have it on a Century camera from this weekend, was about to shoot it. It seems pretty soft, wide open.