[pure-silver] Re: Kodak Enlarging Lens
- From: <genej2@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:25:11 -0400
I'm not at home or I'd check out the "number", but my Anastigmat is a Tessar,
f4.5. Very Old. 20's, teens or earlier would be my guess. My new favorite
portrait lens. BTW, I'm going to disagree with the assertion of narrow
coverage on the Kodak dialytes. just ain't so. i have a 135 that will cover
4x5 easily with considerable movements, and pretty well stopped down a bit.
>
> From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/09/27 Tue PM 01:06:05 EDT
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> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Kodak Enlarging Lens
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> From: <genej2@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Kodak Enlarging Lens
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> > Jerry Lehrer once recommended that very lens as an
> > excellent 2 1/4 enlarging lens. "the one with the large
> > knurls". Not surprised at all.
> >
> > I've been shooting with an ancient 12 inch Kodak
> > Anastigmat in a barrel in front of a Packard. absolutely
> > excellent. Even or especially wide open. Amazing. kodak
> > did good lenses.
> >>
>
> Kodak made two series of lenses under the name "Kodak
> Anastigmat". One was the 30 series the other the 70 series
> (I have no idea where the numbers came from. 30 series
> lenses are Tessars, 70 series are dialytes (four element air
> spaced). Some of both lenses are included in the lens design
> survey program LensVIEW. They vary in quality but some of
> them are excellent. For the most part these lenses were
> designed in the teens and twenties when C.W.Fredrick ran the
> Kodak lens department. Before I got LensVIEW I was under the
> impression that these early Kodak lenses were mediocre and
> that the really good lenses were designed after Rudolf
> Kingslake became head of the department. Not so, many of the
> earlier lenses were very good. After Kingslake took over
> there were some really excellent lenses, as good as anyone
> was making. Kodak Anastigmat lenses were often found on
> cameras made by Folmer & Schwing. Of course they were owned
> by Kodak for a couple of decades. 70 Series K.A.s were
> pretty much standard on Graflex SLR's where the somewhat
> narrow coverage of this type of lens is not a problem. Speed
> Graphics usually had Zeiss Tessars on them rather than Kodak
> lenses until around 1940 when Zeiss could no longer supply
> lenses. Then the standard became the Kodak Ektar in a Kodak
> shutter.
> A lot of the lenses used on Kodak's cheaper cameras up to
> around 1930 were made by Bausch & Lomb, who also made a lot
> of shutters for Kodak.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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