Here is your chance to own an extremely rare and early soft focus lens.
This style of anachromatique has 2 simple meniscus lenses opposing each other. Very simple and effective. As the name implies, it works like the more pricey Pinkham & Smith Semi Achromatic, in that it gets it's softness by a controlled amount of achromatic dispersion. Ie. the 3 primary colors land at different planes.
If you go to Google Images and type in Anachromatique you will see at least 4 images come up that I have done with these lenses. One is of Eddie, done with one that belongs to him. Check them out.
This has a working aperture. Pardon the dusty glass. This lens is 240mm f4. The aperture is marked in mm of dia. Wierd. There are also a bunch of numbers on the barrel to help adjust for the chromatique aberrations. You focus at best eye sharpness. Then if your image is 4 meters away you adjust to the '4' to compensate. Not difficult, although you can pretend it is nearly impossible and impress the hell out of your friends.
Glass is fine. The only detriments are a missing adjusting wheel and no flange. There is an identical lens (only 2 numbers different in the serial) mis labeled at 450mm f5.6 on eekbay. Don't know what he's been smoking. He wants $1600 for his. I'll start at a more modest and fair $1125 for mine.
This style of anachromatique has 2 simple meniscus lenses opposing each other. Very simple and effective. As the name implies, it works like the more pricey Pinkham & Smith Semi Achromatic, in that it gets it's softness by a controlled amount of achromatic dispersion. Ie. the 3 primary colors land at different planes.
If you go to Google Images and type in Anachromatique you will see at least 4 images come up that I have done with these lenses. One is of Eddie, done with one that belongs to him. Check them out.
This has a working aperture. Pardon the dusty glass. This lens is 240mm f4. The aperture is marked in mm of dia. Wierd. There are also a bunch of numbers on the barrel to help adjust for the chromatique aberrations. You focus at best eye sharpness. Then if your image is 4 meters away you adjust to the '4' to compensate. Not difficult, although you can pretend it is nearly impossible and impress the hell out of your friends.
Glass is fine. The only detriments are a missing adjusting wheel and no flange. There is an identical lens (only 2 numbers different in the serial) mis labeled at 450mm f5.6 on eekbay. Don't know what he's been smoking. He wants $1600 for his. I'll start at a more modest and fair $1125 for mine.
