What is the oldest glass you have shot with?

[v12nut]

I think this lens is around 1928/32, feel free to correct me! anyhow a few shots straight out of the camera.




1928?










sleeping on a sunny day









Spring at last

 

[ChuckTa]

Wow, very nice. My oldest lens is post WWII Schneider 105mm f4.5, it's like a lead pipe, very very heavy. I had a friend who loves to take those really old camera apart and modified to use on helicoid.

It's quite amazing how those old lens without any coating can still produce pretty darn good images. Your lens looks fairly clean, it's probably a Tessar or Triotar design which mean it will be fairly sharp in the center and it shows (considering it has no coatings). I found the following, I guess your camera is probably made around 1934

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www.earlyphotography.co.uk

 

[v12nut]

Wow, very nice. My oldest lens is post WWII Schneider 105mm f4.5, it's like a lead pipe, very very heavy. I had a friend who loves to take those really old camera apart and modified to use on helicoid.

It's quite amazing how those old lens without any coating can still produce pretty darn good images. Your lens looks fairly clean, it's probably a Tessar or Triotar design which mean it will be fairly sharp in the center and it shows (considering it has no coatings). I found the following, I guess your camera is probably made around 1934

http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C478.html

Hi,

Thanks for the link, had a quick look and I think the lens is closer to this one

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www.earlyphotography.co.uk

It is a Tessar F6.3 120mm, I could only get it to work with bellows, good fun though.

cheers

 

[ancient alien stylist]

Those look great! What kind of mount is that lens and how did you mate it with your NX?

 

[v12nut]

Those look great! What kind of mount is that lens and how did you mate it with your NX?

Thanks, as I said a bit of fun.

The lens has a 32mm thread, I managed to fit it to a 39mm ring I already had for the bellows.

The camera is attached to the rear of the bellows via a 49mm macro reverse ring from ebay

item number 250905372341.

cheers

 

[East Las Vegas Film School]

Note my "oldest lens" would depend on how you interpret the question. I have four FD mount lenses, each of which is decades older than the native lenses in my stable. However, when I was a child, my mother willed me her Brownie camera from her childhood. It was a box camera, and I had to hold it at my waist to use the viewfinder. I had to visit a camera specialty shop for the old format film, and I changed it in my bedroom after turning the lights down and closing the drapes. (A "dark room," yes? But it did work. )

After a few years, the camera was too little tech even for my cheap heart, and I stopped using it. My younger sister purloined it with approval from my mother, and the legend continued.

 

[v12nut]

Note my "oldest lens" would depend on how you interpret the question. I have four FD mount lenses, each of which is decades older than the native lenses in my stable. However, when I was a child, my mother willed me her Brownie camera from her childhood. It was a box camera, and I had to hold it at my waist to use the viewfinder. I had to visit a camera specialty shop for the old format film, and I changed it in my bedroom after turning the lights down and closing the drapes. (A "dark room," yes? But it did work. )

After a few years, the camera was too little tech even for my cheap heart, and I stopped using it. My younger sister purloined it with approval from my mother, and the legend continued

I have used a few Brownies and they were always fun but as you said a tad basic! I try and use lens from broken cameras adapted to my NX cameras, not found any dead Brownies yet though.

cheers