Want to Buy WTB: Lenses for two 9x12 plate cameras

[Ian Grant]

I'm looking for cheap and cheerful lenses for two German pre WWII 9x12 plate cameras need to be in a working shutter and preferably 135mm-150mm.

A couple of free Heliars would be the unhoped for dream More realistically Triplets/Tessar (or Tessar type) in a Compur preferably but Ibsor, Prontor or Varia OK.

Ian

 

[John Austin]

Ian,

I once promised myself never to sell any Voigtlander lenses, but I have a good (see test result below) 1930 Skopar in dial set Compur 1 shutter that I sit with in my cave and call my Precious - Time to give that up

The Skopar is oddly a better lens than the Heliar, I have two Heliars and know it to be a problematic design in some respects - However it is this very feature, I think residual spherical aberration, that makes them such a versatile and desired lens - Mine are not for sale and at 36cm and 240mm not suitable for your reconstruction

Not free, I would part with the Skopar for Au$128 + postage - Any less and I would prefer to keep it

There is a 135mm Schneider Radionar in shutter for $35.00 plus postage in Denmark, I will go through my PMs and let you have the seller's contact - I bought a spare Sinar rail from him, it, the deal and the packing were all perfect - I have to send that as a separate post as I have typed too much here to loose - Back in a few minutes

John

 

[John Austin]

I am back,

The seller is Mads Loman and his contact is

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Re: Sinar rails

Hi John
Yes it's (Schneider Radeionar) still available. It's 20 pounds plus 15 pounds for shipping it to australia.
Did you recieve the sinar rail yet?

The add is (or sas) here:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Kind Regards
Mads

The Skopar neg scan is here - No it isn't, I forgot that I can only get images to load as links on APUG PMs


Let me know how you get on
John

 

[Ian Grant]

Thanks John, I've sent a PM regarding the Radionar.

Ian

 

[gandolfi]

Ian: what camera(s) are we talking about?

 

[Ian Grant]

Ian: what camera(s) are we talking about?

An Erneman and my spare Patent Etui. I'm also after backs forthem as well.

Ian

 

[Jerevan]

I have no experience with them, but www.mwclassic.com has some possibly cheerful but maybe not rock bottom priced lenses in shutters, along with a few tempting plate camera wrecks...

 

[Ian Grant]

I have no experience with them, but www.mwclassic.com has some possibly cheerful but maybe not rock bottom priced lenses in shutters, along with a few tempting plate camera wrecks...

Thanks, they do have possible lenses but their shipping costs are a touch high for small items as they use DHL rather than the Postal system. Actually I look at their website every Friday evening just after it gets updated

Ian