Our nugget of gold as mentioned in the last blog, turned out to be a hand turned, hand ground Derogy lens, made in Paris around 1860.
This lens which will be used for portrait photography, in a large format studio camera. It is a lens that comes for sale once in a lifetime, so you can imagine my husbands delight! Mirrored only by my own delight of actually being able to purchase it for him for his Christmas gift.
Buying the cart before the horse, we are currently negotiating the price for a camera large enough to support this amazing monster of a lens. Yes people…it is THAT big.
On the Geek side, the lens specs are approximately are:
Focal length- 19″
F-stop – 6
Weight – 9lbs
Another amazing feature included with this lens was one of the original waterhouse stops, (early version of a manual iris), making it possible to have others fabricated exactly for this lens.
We met many great people while wandering the event one of which we will discuss in our next blog. I hope you will take some time to view the slideshow of Our Nugget of Gold.
by lthek
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