Holy crap.

EASmithV · Feb 23, 2013

Someone snap this up before a collector buys it not to use. I want to see the images from this thing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Graflex-Spe...85754088?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item2a298d52e8

summicron1 · Feb 23, 2013

farthest away it focuses is 6 feet? like a fisheye lens, this is a very very very special purpose lens you'll be waiting years for the correct use for.

brucemuir · Feb 24, 2013

No Paypal, will take Skrill…anyone know what that is ( Skrillex little brother??)?

Serbia??
100% FB but only 30 some transactions but his record selling looks good.
Probably completely legit but I'd be a bit hesitant for that pile of coin until I knew more about the money transfer.
That is if I actually wanted it, which I don't.
Which renders my contribution moot.
:devil:

Sorry guys

StoneNYC · Feb 24, 2013

EASmithV said:
Someone snap this up before a collector buys it not to use. I want to see the images from this thing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Graflex-Spe...85754088?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item2a298d52e8

E,

I'll take a very special picture just for you if you buy this for me ... haha, you know I have a use for it Talk about a contact print! haha

EASmithV · Feb 24, 2013

StoneNYC said:
E,

I'll take a very special picture just for you if you buy this for me ... haha, you know I have a use for it Talk about a contact print! haha

Pfft, if i got it, i'd keep the lens for macro portraits on 8x10

fotch · Feb 24, 2013

Interesting attitude by seller when describing scratches on lens "only evident if you stick your nose up".

EASmithV · Feb 24, 2013

I asked for images taken with the setup, but he said he had none scanned

StoneNYC · Feb 25, 2013

EASmithV said:
I asked for images taken with the setup, but he said he had none scanned

Tell him to take a picture!! Lol

Also, took macros last night but I forgot to shoot some film shots so unfortunately I can't post them on APUG

~Stone

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k_jupiter · Feb 25, 2013

First off.. No collector would touch that thing. Hand made POC. And for 900 bucks? In a pay system we have never heard of? Just take the money and flush it down the commode. Saves the postage and the carbon footprint.

desertratt said:
I'm a country boy myself and I sure don't see whut a 145mm f1.2 video projection lens mated to an old Speed Graphic camera is going to do for folks. The "bellows" looks to me they wuz made by Aunt Maude's Toy Clothing business in her front parlor. Just t'other day a feller offered me a Leica 900mm f1.1 screw mount Elmar with Lufwaffe marking on it. I think I'll put my dough in that one, not the Graphic doodad. 'Course payment has to be made in World War II German Marks or Iraqi bills with Saddam Hussein on them.

Be careful with that Luftwaffen lens. Many of those are fakes. I do have a prewar Wesphalia 100,000 mark coin. Trade you for a good condition Leica II.

tim in san jose

mphlox · Feb 25, 2013

I wonder if this is the same camera: www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/

ntenny · Feb 26, 2013

I found it on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37082363@N08/8239364632/in/photostream. From the available information I think it's the same person as on LFPI.

It's kind of cool, but I don't think it's nine hundred dollars worth of "kind of cool".

-NT

EASmithV · Feb 26, 2013

And still, no example photos!!! ARGH!

it seems as if the one on ebay can focus with some sort of homebrew bag bellows.

AgX · Feb 26, 2013

k_jupiter said:
First off.. No collector would touch that thing. Hand made POC.

I assume one should distinguish between a collector and a user. I personally would find a high speed lens (with all its probable limitations) quite interesting for some applications.

What is wrong with being handmade in the ROC? (And handmade items from there are getting scarce meanwhile.)

k_jupiter · Feb 26, 2013

AgX said:
I assume one should distinguish between a collector and a user. I personally would find a high speed lens (with all its probable limitations) quite interesting for some applications.

What is wrong with being handmade in the ROC? (And handmade items from there are getting scarce meanwhile.)

If collectors would buy this sort of crap... I would quit my day job. I have a 1.9 WA Wolly Oscilloscope lens. Not only is it worth nothing, it takes up room.

tim in san jose

railwayman3 · Feb 26, 2013

k_jupiter said:
If collectors would buy this sort of crap... I would quit my day job. I have a 1.9 WA Wolly Oscilloscope lens. Not only is it worth nothing, it takes up room.

tim in san jose

Well, somebody has bid on the camera (and has 26 bids running on other photographic items)! Maybe glue your lens on some random scrap camera body, ask as at least $1999.99, someone might buy!

Jose LS Gil · Feb 26, 2013

I believe that lens if from a photocopier. I think I have one of those lenses, but I have never used it. It makes a nice paperweight.

EASmithV · Feb 27, 2013

I've seen collectors buy some stupid pieces of crap as "collectible odditys"

Holy crap.

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