Mighty pretty and seems to perform well too on B&W. There's some chroma
in the color shot but I'm sure the lens designer never conceived of it
taking a photo in color.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/23/2010 1:57 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> As I get older, I find I am more interested in things from the past.
> Among the gadgets that I have squirreled away is a landscape lens for
> a dry plate camera, manufactured around 1890. The lens is a Ross
> London No. 6 Symmetrical 8-inch focal length, to cover 5x7 inches,
> and it is equipped with rotary Waterhouse stops from f/16 to f/64.
>
> I am in the process of fitting the lens to a M42-mount lens board to
> permit its use on a Pentax bellows unit attached to my Olympus E-1
> DSLR. For a dry run, to be sure that I had the dimensions correct, I
> assembled the parts in a temporary manner to take a few test shots.
> All shots were hand-held; I'm sure that the use of a tripod would
> improve things.
>
> The lens itself. A similar lens is shown under Ross on the
> Camerapedia.org website:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Ross+Lens+2.jpg.html
>
> A black and white image to look at sharpness and contrast:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Michelin+bw.jpg.html
>
> 1890 meets 2010; a contrail with a faint view of the passing jet:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Contrail.jpg.html
>
> I will find some period subjects when I get the project completed.
>
> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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