Laack
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| Laack 5 cm f/2.7 Dialytar on a 3x4 cm camera by Glunz image by Tony Kemplen (Image rights) |
Julius Laack Soehne was a camera and lens maker, based in the German town Rathenow. McKeown[1] lists a ferrotype camera from 1895, and a number of folding plate cameras. In times of the German Democratic Republic the company became state-owned and was renamed VEB Rathenower Optische Werke (ROW).
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, c1895
- Merkur: 10×15 cm folding plate camera. Polyxentar f/6.8 lens and Koilos shutter.
- Padie: 9×12 cm folding plate camera. Pololyt f/6.8 lens and Rulex shutter.
- Sport-Camera: folding press camera with focal plane shutter. 6.5×9, 9×12 or 10×15 cm. Dialytar lens (various maximum apertures).
- Tropical: 9×12 cm tropical folding plate camera. Pololyt or Dialytar lens and Compur or Ibsor shutter.
- Wanderer: 6.5×9 cm folding plate camera
- Meteor
Lenses
- Dialytar
- Pololyt
- Polyxentar
- Regulyt
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.
Links
- 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).
