Laack
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| Laack Padie 9x12 camera with Omfa München (Munich) Doppel-Anastigmat Correktar f4.5 135mm in a Rulex shutter image by PhotoShop Guru (Image rights) |
Julius Laack, later Julius Laack Soehne,[1] was a camera and lens maker, based at Curlandstrasse 60, Rathenow (Brandenburg, Germany).[2] McKeown[3] 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.[4]
Laack lenses, especially the Pololyt, appear on other German 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.[5]
- 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[6]
- 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).
- Stereo Camera with Dialytar Series T f/6.3 15cm in Stereo Pronto[7]
- Wanderer. 6.5×9 cm folding plate camera[8]
- ? Meteor [9]
- Name? Horizontal 9x12 folding plate camera with Polyplan f/7.2 135mm in Vario shutter[10]
- Name? Horizontal 9x12 folding stereo plate camera with Dialyar f/7.2 135mm in Pronto [11]
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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
Laack produced a wide range of lenses for still photo and cine cameras as well as enlargers.[12][13]
- Cine-lens, a Petzval design
- f/2 15 to 85mm[12]
- Cine-Pololyt, a Cooke design for 16mm cine cameras
- f/2 25mm[12]
- Cine-Polyxentar, a Cooke design for 8 and 16mm cine cameras
- Dialytar. This name was used on several lenses of different design and maximum aperture. Greenleaf[13] 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 [17]
- Dialytar Series T
- f/4.5 13.5 cm[20]
- Doppelanastigmat Dialytar
- Doppel-Polynar. A simple double-anastigmat, with two cemented doublets.[13]
- f/6.3 210mm[21]
- Egotar
- Egolyt
- f/4.5 105mm[23]
- Extra Rapid Aplanat
- f/7.7 20cm [24]
- Pololyt. A simple triplet.
- Polyplan.
- 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).[13]
- Regulyt. A simple triplet.
- Schnellarbeiter. This lens appears on Ferrotype cameras by more than one maker.[35]
- Texon
- Vergrösserungs Anastigmat Enlarger Lens
Notes
- ↑ One of the sons was Ernst Laack (Listed as German soldier in WWI: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Mechanik und Optik 1914, p.272)
- ↑ Henney, Keith, Handbook of photography. London: Whittlesey House, 1939. P. 59.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ wit Pololyt f/4.5 135mm
- ↑ Photoshop Guru
- ↑ s/n 59344) Yeshen Venema's site
- ↑ Pololyt f/4.5 105mm; eBay September 2012
- ↑ This model isn't in McKeown: can anyone confirm it?
- ↑ body 152mm x 145 m; ebay October 2012.
- ↑ Yeshen Venema via Flickr
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedHenney - ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Greenleaf, Allen R. (1950) Photographic Optics. Macmillan, New York. pp82 & 201-8.
- ↑ pho-Tony via Flickr
- ↑ Laack Rathenow Doppel Anastigmat Dialytar in Wanderer? 9x12
- ↑ brass barrel lens, eBay October 2012
- ↑ brass barrel lens, eBay October 2012
- ↑ [http://www.enter-net.de/auktion/photo/laack.htm Enter-net de
- ↑ Stereo Camera, lens s/n 59344) Yeshen Venema's site
- ↑ Laack Rathenow in Compur LP Auktioner
- ↑ 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 Wanderer plate camera; eBay September 2012
- ↑ in plate camera; eBay October 2012
with Pololyt f/4.5 135mm
Laack Rathenow s/n 91253 in IBSO (Romanian on-line auction, November 2012).
Laack Rathenow s/n 102664 in Compur (eBay March 2011). - ↑ Now defunct German on-line auction system
- ↑ s/n 17553 "Julius Laack Söhne Rathenow"; loose lens in shutter, eBay October 2012
- ↑ s/n 22451 "Julius Laack Söhne Rathenow"; 9x12 plate camera (Wanderer /) in Fotosidans Forum.
- ↑ 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).
