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Subject: [Leica] Looking Through a Lens from the Past
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:18:56 -0600
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Hi George,

Thanks for looking.  The "playing" is easy.  Remembering how to use 
woodworking tools to build a 3/4 inch lens board to specific dimensions was 
more difficult. ;-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Looking Through a Lens from the Past


> never been easier to "play" with our "toys"
>
> ;~)
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
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>
>
>
>
> On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> As I get older, I find I am more interested in things from the past. 
>> Among the gadgets that I have squirreled away is a landscape lens for a 
>> dry plate camera, manufactured around 1890.  The lens is a Ross London 
>> No. 6 Symmetrical 8-inch focal length, to cover 5x7 inches, and it is 
>> equipped with rotary Waterhouse stops from f/16 to f/64.
>>
>> I am in the process of fitting the lens to a M42-mount lens board to 
>> permit its use on a Pentax bellows unit attached to my Olympus E-1 DSLR. 
>> For a dry run, to be sure that I had the dimensions correct, I assembled 
>> the parts in a temporary manner to take a few test shots.  All shots were 
>> hand-held; I'm sure that the use of a tripod would improve things.
>>
>> The lens itself.  A similar lens is shown under Ross on the 
>> Camerapedia.org website:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Ross+Lens+2.jpg.html
>>
>> A black and white image to look at sharpness and contrast:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Michelin+bw.jpg.html
>>
>> 1890 meets 2010;  a contrail with a faint view of the passing jet:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Contrail.jpg.html
>>
>> I will find some period subjects when I get the project completed.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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Replies: Reply from daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] Looking Through a Lens from the Past)
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