The last new lens I bought was in 1985 (and that was my first lens), so I haven't helped things much. Like I'm driving the market. Yeah, right....
The last new lens I bought was in 1985 (and that was my first lens), so I haven't helped things much. Like I'm driving the market. Yeah, right....
I can beat that. I bought a new 90mm f/6.8 Angulon in Compur shutter in 1975 (I think) from the camera store in Dominion Square, Montreal. I have bought and sold many LF lenses, now concentrating on those that will cover both 5x7 and 4x10. Wanting to trade my 165 Angulon for the Super Angulon version.
A Stutz Bearcat?
I was a mechanic, not owner, making $5 hour in a 60 hour 6 day week. Cash, which was often days late. I liked working on odd cars. We had a Facel Vega blocking the middle of the shop for years. What a junk. I worked on many XKE some with Chevy engines. I did school bus brakes on a creeper in the street. All new lines, etc. Our best paying customer was a drug dealer. One day he says put this Olds engine in a Ford in 12 hours. Done. Welded it in and made a custom drive shaft.
We also did rare car estimates for $50 as the shop was recognized by insurance co. Hemmings was our cheat sheet.
Helped restore a Scenicruiser then a cruise to the Kentucky Derby with drunken frat boys. It was stripped of all interior by then. The boys were fine going down, but coming back the driver took the scenic route. They puked the whole way back. We hosed it out.
Then I got a phone call...
Tin Can
Please take the car-talk to the Lounge.
Tri Tan is making new lenses. Maybe Cooke? Wollaston? Jason certainly could make some if there was enough interest.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Brass radiators and brass lens barrels go together. I have neither. Mr Galli might have both. ... so back to "brass tacks" lens talk, I guess, which brings all kinds of barrel lenses into the mix of options, not just old brass ones. I got a number of Apo Nikkors downright free; and they're better corrected than most official view camera lenses; but today I was using one on an enlarger. Most of those kinds of lenses still being made have been modified to fixed aperture for various technology uses.
Well I'll be dipped. Learned something today. And a mere $3400 bucks.
You might like to see this: https://youtu.be/dcIusrw50PM
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