Perhaps the most sought after Pinkham & Smith lens. No, I didn't say the rarest, but for 8X10 Studio photographers, this is the benchmark lens that everything else looks up to.
This is the lens that I bought from Eddie and a page telling that story with images made with this lens is here.
I finally abandoned the original aperture and mounted it in the lovely Studio #4 shutter you see. Not an easy or cheap repair. It is 100% correct with Pinkham aperture plate and the shutter works great. As great as one of those can work in any case. Model T Ford of shutters. It'll get you about 1/5th second wide open.
The rear barrel is reversed in order to put the flange thread at the rear. You could do it either way, but for my purposes with a Packard shutter inside the camera, this works fine, even though you have to take the lens off the camera and take the barrel off the back to remove the flange. It's a work around. Or you could put it back so the flange is just behind the aperture and then the flange screws off the normal way.
This lens has obviously had a long and productive life which included a period of careless storage. There are scratches on the front glass in the center. Look at the images I've made using it. The blemishes don't effect a thing. But they're there, so it's not a $5500 lens. Bad for me, good for you. It is however, a $3650.00 lens. Like the over-used adage these days . . It'll change your life (if you're an 8X10 photographer / artist)
Lens board NOT included. Flange of course, is.
This is the lens that I bought from Eddie and a page telling that story with images made with this lens is here.
I finally abandoned the original aperture and mounted it in the lovely Studio #4 shutter you see. Not an easy or cheap repair. It is 100% correct with Pinkham aperture plate and the shutter works great. As great as one of those can work in any case. Model T Ford of shutters. It'll get you about 1/5th second wide open.
The rear barrel is reversed in order to put the flange thread at the rear. You could do it either way, but for my purposes with a Packard shutter inside the camera, this works fine, even though you have to take the lens off the camera and take the barrel off the back to remove the flange. It's a work around. Or you could put it back so the flange is just behind the aperture and then the flange screws off the normal way.
This lens has obviously had a long and productive life which included a period of careless storage. There are scratches on the front glass in the center. Look at the images I've made using it. The blemishes don't effect a thing. But they're there, so it's not a $5500 lens. Bad for me, good for you. It is however, a $3650.00 lens. Like the over-used adage these days . . It'll change your life (if you're an 8X10 photographer / artist)
Lens board NOT included. Flange of course, is.