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Re: [OM] Looking Through a Lens from the Past

Subject: Re: [OM] Looking Through a Lens from the Past
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:36:57 +1100
That's a great project and a beautiful lens. That tyre looks pretty crisp to 
me. 
Andrew Fildes
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On 24/12/2010, at 5:57 AM, 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.

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