Unique and/or Legendary lenses

jimgalli · Apr 30, 2013

Dan Fromm said:
Jimbo, legendary lenses command legendary money. I thought you could spell Pinkham & Smith.

My point is obvious. Legendary lenses, and there are some, don't necessarily make legendary pictures. I'm living proof.

Sirius Glass · Apr 30, 2013

jimgalli said:
Legendary?? What makes a lens legendary. If I need to sell it on Ebay . . . it's legendary. I don't really give a crap about legendary lenses. I want to make some legendary pictures.

While I have interest in the lenses that you sell, I find your prices are legendary!

jimgalli · Apr 30, 2013

Sirius Glass said:
While I have interest in the lenses that you sell, I find your prices are legendary!

You cannot be Sirius! My stuff is cheap.

Alan Gales · Apr 30, 2013

jimgalli said:
You cannot be Sirius! My stuff is cheap.

Yeah, you, Eddie and Dagor77. Everything you guys sell is unique and legendary!

Just jerking your chain, Jim. I have sold some "rare" lenses myself.

ic-racer · May 1, 2013

I don't know what is 'legendary,' but in terms of 'unique' the Hypergon with the spinning center filter is at the top of my list.

E. von Hoegh · May 1, 2013

Dan Fromm said:
+1

My friend Eric Beltrando (visit his site www.dioptrique.info to see the results of his calculations) insists that Boyer Beryls (Dagor clones, and very like Dagors; Beryls, Beryl Ss, and Emeraudes all have the same prescription) cover 70 degrees and can be counted on for only 55 degrees in stringent applications, e.g., photoengraving.

People tend to see what they want to see, whether it is there or not.

Other makers' dagor clones are much the same. Between ~ 1912 and ~ 1950 Berthiot's coverage claims for their f/6.8 Perigraphe Ser. VIb shrank remarkably, from 95 degrees to 65 degrees. Same lens, different films and criteria of acceptable image quality. Coverage is a sometime thing but fantasy goes on forever.

Interesting. That's almost exactly what Schneider-Kreuznach specified as coverage for the last batch of Kern 14" Dagors, the multicoated ones.

An old copy of "Photographic Optics (Cox)" gives the coverage as 70 degrees.

I had at one time an S-K 300mm Doppel Anastigmat, which is a Dagor clone. It's every bit a Dagor, and comparing mine with a CPG Berlin 30cm Dagor of the same vintage, the Schneider was a bit sharper from f:6.8 to f:11 - after that I could see no difference.

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