Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Really amazing Jim, I've liked very much your tests, and be surprised by the quite good quality of this really old lens, as you know I share also this passion to play with these old "toys", sometimes we can be surprised as on this one. cheers Lluis El 23/12/2010, a las 19:57, Jim Nichols escribi?: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information