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| Fotoguy20d Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 3 |  Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject: Folmer & Schwing Manufacturing CorpI just picked up a ca 1897-1898 (from camera and lens serial numbers) RB Cycle Graphic. The lens, in a B&L shutter, turned out, to my surprise, to be a Dagor. Did F&S commonly use Goerz lenses or was this a swap at some point (although serial numbers suggest camera and lens are contemporaries)? Does anyone have a F&S catalog from this time period? The earliest I've been able to find is already from the Eastman years. Thanks, Dan |
| Dan Fromm Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 2165 | Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:57 pm Dan, what is engraved on the lens? Serial number, designation, and so on. If it is engraved "Dagor" it is, according to the VM, no earlier than 1900. And, which B&L shutter is it in? |
| Fotoguy20d Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 3 | Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:58 pm Dan, It's the B&L Iris Diaphram Shutter. Lens is marked CP Goerz Berlin Doppel Anastigmat No 74437 Based on the list you posted on LFF (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?41822-C-P-Goerz-Berlin-Serial-numbers-%28Dogmar%29) and the camera serial number in the 5500s, it would seem to be 1898-ish. Dan |
| Dan Fromm Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 2165 | Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:05 pm Well, then, the lens could well be original issue. International trade in photographic equipment began a few days before the Internet because generally accessible. |
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