Seems the spirit is still alive today:
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/digital-forum/66544-home-made-900mm-lens.html
Judging from the test shots published, Andy´s gear looks a lot
crisper. But then, weather and aip pollution are important factors,
too.
Per Öfverbeck
http://ofverbeck.se
"In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates"
19 okt 2008 kl. 04.25 skrev ADavidhazy:
Some of you asked what the telephoto lens looked like that I made in
the
1960's to photograph the freighter coming in to the Rochester
harbor. Well,
I found the photos of the thing. It was actually a 360 mm Rochester
Optical
Tessar 8x10 lens (maybe aerial?) and to use it on the Leica IIIg I
first
built a reflex housing out of cardboard, glue and a mirror and
rubber band
to power it up previous to exposure - as shown in this photograph:
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/a-misc/3-views-360mm-telephoto-1A.jpg
The reflex housing also accepted shorter focal length lenses and as I
stated the lens was attached to a sliding, nesting tube attached to
the '
housing. When fully collapsed the lens was focused at "infinity" and
then on
the non moving cylinder I had drawn in lines that represented the
distance
the lens needed to move outward to focus on closer distances but the
focus was
proven on the groundglass of the reflex housing (patterned after the
Visoflex).
at the same time I ran across a photograph of my first _real good_
enlarger!
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/a-misc/enlarger-home-made-3A.jpg
excuse the contrast on these - my rudimentary film scanner is acting
up.
PrimeFilm 1800.
andy
