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Subject: [Leica] Looking Through a Lens from the Past
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:13:31 -0600
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never been easier to "play" with our "toys"

;~)

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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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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