We'll all agree that it's the glass that makes the images, not how pretty the lens is to look at!
Here's your chance to own the 30-30 Winchester of Soft Focus lenses. The Verito holds it's own with the best. Without argument. But they're reasonably affordable because Wollensak made them for a very long time, and they were sold to the portraitists perhaps 50:1 to the other important marques that command the higher prices. Rarity, not quality, is the issue that drives Pinkhams to 10X the value of this lens. OK, maybe a little quality and romance is in their too. But the Verito is NO slouch!
This one has had a hard life somewhere along the way. The shutter is irrepairable. Trashed. Mangled. Don't even think about it, it's toast. But the Studio shutters are marginal in the first place.
What it doe have that almost is never seen except in the very earliest versions, is the slot for Waterhouse stop. And it's sized so that any old broken dark slide from 4X5 can be easily made into a usable aperture. With these lenses you really only want wide open, and then once in a while, f6.6 or thereabouts is nice.
So the broken shutter is only good to hold the 2 halves together. Trust me on this. But as barrel lens, it's easy to make a perfectly round aperture for it and the glass is for all practical purposes, perfect. As good as I've ever seen.
Sorry, no flange. First $425.00 gets it.
Here's your chance to own the 30-30 Winchester of Soft Focus lenses. The Verito holds it's own with the best. Without argument. But they're reasonably affordable because Wollensak made them for a very long time, and they were sold to the portraitists perhaps 50:1 to the other important marques that command the higher prices. Rarity, not quality, is the issue that drives Pinkhams to 10X the value of this lens. OK, maybe a little quality and romance is in their too. But the Verito is NO slouch!
This one has had a hard life somewhere along the way. The shutter is irrepairable. Trashed. Mangled. Don't even think about it, it's toast. But the Studio shutters are marginal in the first place.
What it doe have that almost is never seen except in the very earliest versions, is the slot for Waterhouse stop. And it's sized so that any old broken dark slide from 4X5 can be easily made into a usable aperture. With these lenses you really only want wide open, and then once in a while, f6.6 or thereabouts is nice.
So the broken shutter is only good to hold the 2 halves together. Trust me on this. But as barrel lens, it's easy to make a perfectly round aperture for it and the glass is for all practical purposes, perfect. As good as I've ever seen.
Sorry, no flange. First $425.00 gets it.