Tessar 18cm f/4.5

[sparrow6224]

Hi Brian and loyal readers of same....

Anybody know what's up with this? Medium format for Zeiss TLR? A 4X5 lens? Serial number by my calculation puts it at 1925.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ORIG...item3a6e343785

[raid]

Brian has quit RFF.

[Crazy Fedya]

Where does he exist now?

[Brian Legge]

I'd guess 4x5 coverage (maybe 5x7) given that its a 180mm. Hard to say though without either finding a reference to the lens or testing the coverage.

[raid]

Originally Posted by Crazy Fedya

Where does he exist now?

Brian sometimes visits www.nelsonfoto.com/SMF/

[sevo]

Originally Posted by sparrow6224

Anybody know what's up with this? Medium format for Zeiss TLR? A 4X5 lens? Serial number by my calculation puts it at 1925.

That's a barrel lens, commonly used on 9x12cm/4x5"/10x15cm focal plane shutter SLRs - a widespread press camera type at the time, made by many British and German makers.

[hlpgtf]

You'll find all kinds of combos like that from Zeiss in the 1920's - tessars and triotars from around 75mm up to 210mm. Zeiss (and some other manufacturers) seems to have built them with custom barrels and mounts, depending on what people wanted. I have a 210mm f/3.5 Triotar from around 1925 that was built into a 35mm Exakta mount barrel by someone. It's a beast...