Eric and Richard, I never said that it was a Goerz Hypergon. I picked up this bubble- like lens from a GI returning from WW2, in 1945. Among the goodies I got from him besides this lens was a few Walther pistols. When I took the lens to my High School Photography instructor, he thought for a while that it was a Radiometer, but then saw the pneumatic tube and bulb that made the "star" spin. If our member Les Clark was in the Bx. H S of Science Camera Club in 1946, he probably saw it when I brought it in to show. I have read descriptions of this lens many years ago. Kingslake spoke of it at a symposium over 50 years ago. Jerry Eric Goldstein wrote: > Jerry Lehrer wrote: > > > Eric, > > > > Nope, the one I have, has the "star" INSIDE the near spherical lens. > > Richard could possibly confirm that, if he remembers seeing it here. > > > > It was an internal component. > > > > Jerry > > Then it is not a Hypergon: > > http://www.cliveruss.com/classiclns/hypergon150/hypergon.html > > http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/hyperg_e.htm > > The whole point of the external star on this lens was so that it could > be swung into place part way through the exposure to compensate for > light fall off away from the center. I'm not sure how an internal > mechanical filter would work... > > Eric Goldstein > --- > Rollei List > > - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' > in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > > - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > > - Online, searchable archives are available at > //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.8/215 - Release Date: 12/27/2005 --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list