For Sale Evicting the Wollensak Family

[cdholden]

I'm keeping one for wide angle, but the rest of them just aren't doing much besides slumming around the house. I'm giving them the boot in hopes that they will get paying jobs.
Prices listed include worldwide shipping. If you live in the US, give yourself a $50 discount. Buy two or more lenses, give yourself $150 discount.



From left to right,

For $700 is one 11.5" Vesta in Studio shutter. Shutter works with cable release and includes flange. Lens hood is dinged, and so is the included front cap. The lens hood unscrews, allowing the use of screw-in filters or maybe even a front mounted packard (for those that don't like the Studio shutter). This lens is also a convertible, to 17" if I recall correctly.

For $800, is one 14.5" Verito in barrel. Glass looks nice for its age and iris moves smooth like butter. For those of you in NYC, that's "SMOOOOVE LIKE BUTTAH".
It also includes an original style flange. I have a custom flange (not shown) made by SK Grimes to fit a Sinar board, as well as a packard shutter with a thread mount for screwing into the front of this lens (or the 15.5" Velostigmat) that I could be coerced to sell separately. They are not included in this price.

For $950, is one 15.5" Velostigmat. It's already spoken for, and I'm awaiting payment before shipping.

Last but not least, the 16" Vitax at f3.8, with flange for $1000. Iris had a recent CLA by SK Grimes. It was tough to turn, but now free of a hundred years of dirt, grime and dried lubricant, and ready for the next hundred years. The diffusion works (but was not CLA'd) and the glass is very nice for its age. There is about 1-2mm of yellowing around the edges of the front element, nothing that will have an effect on making images. I will include the lensboard it is currently mounted to, or can remove it before shipping if you wish.

I welcome Paypal, money orders, cashiers checks and wire transfers.

 

[cdholden]

Verito has been sold.
The Vesta and Vitax are still available.

 

[cdholden]

Payment received for Velostigmat.
Vesta and Vitax are still available.

These first two lenses were sold through LFF. Let's sell these last two through APUG!

 

[Dan Dozer]

What's the lens board size on the Vitax? It's something I might be interested in.

 

[cdholden]

Right about 6". It could work on a Kodak or Ansco field camera (maybe B&J?), but was really designed for use on the larger studio cameras of the time.
Sorry Deardorff owners, but your front tilt makes the camera's front standard too flimsy for this lens.

 

[removed account4]

good to hear you have interest and are selling these beautiful lenses chris !
for what its worth ... i have a 13.5" vitax and it is on a small 3" board ( barely bigger than a speed graphic board ).
steve grimes made it for me with a collar ... mine didn't come with a flange so the collar
work as both ( so small a camera with a smallish lensboard might work, or sk grimes might be able to help it work )

good luck !
john

 

[cdholden]

John,
I could make it work with a spacer and mount it to my Sinar, but I'm concerned about it being front heavy and my front carrier not being very forgiving to the laws of physics.
A studio camera owner would benefit from this much more than I would. Hey, you've got one. Want to buy a bigger lens?

Chris

 

[removed account4]

yikes, i didnt' realize it was a 16"
that thing is a bazooka !

id love a bigger one chris ( the century would love it too ! ),
but i have to pay the tree man in a few days, and its gonna be a whopper of a bill !

wanna trade ?

you could come for a visit, i can show you the trees,
i'll take your the lens for the trees

your lumber would include an elm, a maple an oak and you can have the stumps too, no charge !

 

[cdholden]

If you add that wooden studio camera in with the rest of the firewood, I'm sure we could do something with a trade.
I do like my trees. If you don't want a lens, you can buy a nice tree from Jim Fitzgerald: Dead Link Removed