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| − | * Ferrotype camera, c1895 | + | * Ferrotype camera ('Ferrotype Cannon'), c1895 |
* Gazelle Tropical. 9×12 cm tropical folding plate camera. Pololyt or Dialytar lens and Compur or Ibsor shutter. | * Gazelle Tropical. 9×12 cm tropical folding plate camera. Pololyt or Dialytar lens and Compur or Ibsor shutter. | ||
* Graziella | * Graziella | ||
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* Sport-Camera. Folding press camera with focal plane shutter. 6.5×9, 9×12 or 10×15 cm. Dialytar lens (various maximum apertures). | * Sport-Camera. Folding press camera with focal plane shutter. 6.5×9, 9×12 or 10×15 cm. Dialytar lens (various maximum apertures). | ||
* Wanderer. 6.5×9 cm folding plate camera | * Wanderer. 6.5×9 cm folding plate camera | ||
| − | * Meteor < | + | * ? Meteor <ref> This model isn't in McKeown: can anyone confirm it? </ref> |
* Name? Horizontal 9x12 folding plate camera with Polyplan f/7.2 135mm in Vario shutter<ref>body 152mm x 145 m; ebay October 2012.</ref> | * Name? Horizontal 9x12 folding plate camera with Polyplan f/7.2 135mm in Vario shutter<ref>body 152mm x 145 m; ebay October 2012.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 09:48, 25 November 2012
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| Laack Padie 9x12 camera with Omfa Muenchen (Munich) Doppel-Anastigmat Correktar f4.5 135mm in a Rulex shutter image by PhotoShop Guru (Image rights) |
Julius Laack , later Julius Laack Soehne, was a camera and lens maker, based Rathenow (Brandenburg, Germany). McKeown[1] lists a ferrotype camera from 1895, and a number of folding plate cameras. Laack lenses were used on smaller-format cameras at least up to the Second World War. In the time of the German Democratic Republic the company became state-owned and was part of VEB Rathenower Optische Werke (ROW), together with Emil Busch and Nitsche and Gunthe.[2]
Laack lenses, especially the Pololyt, appear on other companies' cameras including the Altissa Altiflex and Altix, Welta Reflekta and KW Pilot Super. Laack also made cine lenses.
Cameras
- Ferrotype camera ('Ferrotype Cannon'), c1895
- Gazelle Tropical. 9×12 cm tropical folding plate camera. Pololyt or Dialytar lens and Compur or Ibsor shutter.
- Graziella
- Merkur. 10×15 cm folding plate camera. Polyxentar f/6.8 lens and Koilos shutter.
- Padie. 9×12 cm vertical folding plate camera. Pololyt f/6.8 lens and Rulex shutter.
- Padie "Luxus" D
- Omfa Muenchen (Munich) Doppel-Anastigmat Correktar f4.5 135mm and Rulex shutter[3]
- Laack 4,5 Doppel Anastigmat in a Rulex shutter
- Roland Reise Kamera
- Saturn
- Sport-Camera. Folding press camera with focal plane shutter. 6.5×9, 9×12 or 10×15 cm. Dialytar lens (various maximum apertures).
- Wanderer. 6.5×9 cm folding plate camera
- ? Meteor [4]
- Name? Horizontal 9x12 folding plate camera with Polyplan f/7.2 135mm in Vario shutter[5]
- Name? Horizontal 9x12 folding stereo plate camera with Dialyar f/7.2 135mm in Pronto [6]
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| Laack 5 cm f/2.7 Dialytar on a 3x4 cm camera by Glunz image by Tony Kemplen (Image rights) |
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| Laack 16.5 cm f/4.5 lens identified simply as 'Doppel Anastigmat', for a large format (probably 4×5 inch) camera. Images by Ladenla (Image rights) |
Lenses
- Dialytar. This name was used on several lenses of different design and maximum aperture. Greenleaf[7] lists three designs; one is a simple triplet, one (Series T!) a Tessar-type, and one a four-element lens like a Tessar, but with the two parts of the rear group not cemented, and with an air space.
- Dialytar Series P
- f/3.5 30cm [10]
- Doppelanastigmat Dialytar
- Doppel-Polynar. A simple double-anastigmat, with two cemented doublets.[7]
- f/6.3 210mm[11]
- Egotar
- Egolyt
- f/4.5 105mm[13]
- Extra Rapid Aplanat
- f/7.7 20cm [14]
- Pololyt. A simple triplet.
- Polyplan.[20]
- Polyxentar. A double-anastigmat; either composed of two cemented triplets (f/6.8) or of two triplets with only the outermost pair of each cemented (f/4.5).[7]
- Regulyt. A simple triplet.
- Schnellarbeiter. This lens appears on Ferrotype cameras by more than one maker.[23]
- Texon
- Vergrösserungs Anastigmat Enlarger Lens
Notes
- ↑ McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p592.
- ↑ Die Geschichte der optischen Industrie in Rathenow II (History of the optical industry in Rathenow part II) at Kompetenzzentrum Optik Rathenow (Rathenow Optics Centre)
- ↑ Photoshop Guru
- ↑ This model isn't in McKeown: can anyone confirm it?
- ↑ body 152mm x 145 m; ebay October 2012.
- ↑ Yeshen Venema via Flickr
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Greenleaf, Allen R. (1950) Photographic Optics. Macmillan, New York. pp82 & 201-8.
- ↑ pho-Tony via Flickr
- ↑ brass barrel lens, eBay October 2012
- ↑ brass barrel lens, eBay October 2012
- ↑ in IBSO shutter; eBay August 2012
- ↑ eBay October 2012
- ↑ in IBSO shutter; eBay August 2012
- ↑ Bass barrel lens, eBay October 2012
- ↑ eBay September 2012
- ↑ eBay October 2012
- ↑ in IBSO shutter; eBay August 2012
- ↑ zniv via Flickr.—Gerard Vogels via Flickr
- ↑ in plate camera; eBay October 2012
- ↑ 13.5 cm f/7.2 Polyplan on an unidentified low-price folding plate camera, in Swedish photographic forum Fotosidan.
- ↑ s/n 17553 "Julius Laack Söhne Rathenow"; loose lens in shutter, eBay October 2012
- ↑ s/n 12938 "Laack"; almost square 12 x 9 camera; ebay October 2012
s/n 55072 "Julius Laack Söhne Rathenow"; eBay January 2012. - ↑ Ertee 'cannon' camera by Romain Talbot, for 'button' ferrotypes, with Laack 6 cm f/3.5 Schnellarbeiter lens, in a past Christie's auction catalogue.
- ↑ Barrel lens (for enlarger?), eBay October 2012
- ↑ sn 268433 blog.sina.com.cn
- ↑ Brass barrel lens, eBay October 2012
- ↑ Bay October 2012
- ↑ Bay October 2012
Links
- Laack 9×12 cm with Rathenow Polyplan f/7.2 135 mm in Vario (Camera Collection Kurt Tauber)
- Laack 9×12 cm tropical camera with 13.5 cm Poloyt and Rulex shutter, in a past Breker auction listing (on the left of the picture).
- 1 inch f/1.3 Cine-Polyxentar cine lens, 1930s (as estimated by owner) in Japanese blog Hubbell's Photo Leaf.
- K.W. Box Reflex with a 10.5 cm f/4.5 Pololyt, at Early Photography
- Laack 13.5 cm enlarging lens at ksmt.com, the website of a Japanese lens collector (he has tried the lens for photography with a DSLR; example photos are linked from this page).
