My Flea market Petzval

[Ian Grant]

I bought this dirty old lens at a flea market 6 weeks ago, sold as a projection lens. What initially looks like a lens hood is the fitteng for the magic lantern projector. It was very cheap.









Ian

[Ian Grant]

The lens is now identified as a 200mm/8" f4.8 Petzval and I've made some Waterhouse stops and cleaned the lens thoroughly. It's fitted to a Speed Graphic lens board ready for use.









Ian

[Chris Lange]

Looks great now, also loving the bare wood on the Graphic.

[Bruce Osgood]

Now that's a worth while project.

[zsas]

Ian, can we see an image photographed with your restored lens? Great work!

[Ian Grant]

Ian, can we see an image photographed with your restored lens? Great work!

Hope to use it in the next week or so so yes will post images when I do.

Ian

[DSLR]

Wow, nice work. That thing looked beyond repair.

Would love to see some images.

[eddie]

Ian- You have better flea markets than I do... Looking forward to the images.

[Ian Grant]

Ian- You have better flea markets than I do... Looking forward to the images.

This was a very large monthly flea market, in fact there's not a lot of photographic items although I bought a load of wood & brass camera parts at the next one.

the Petzval came from an antique dealer who also has a stall at camera fairs, often sellers have already creamed off the best items and use flea markets and camera fairs to off-load surplus items they habe no time to really sort or even clean up.

Ian

[MacReady]

That looks like it was hugely satisfying to clean.

I'm new to LF but keep seeing Petzval lenses being mentioned, are they a cult classic or?