Goerz Frontar 14cm 9.0 Landschaftslinse

LittleAlex

Yesterday, at the local flea-market I obtained for $0.78 the very strange devise:

At the end I discovered that the front element is Goerz Frontar Achromat two elements lens:

Quite delighted, because had always dreamed to have the genuine german Landschaftslinse. Plane to use it on the rollfilm cameras. Only need to look for the proper shutter with the diaphragm yet.

Olivier · Expire: 2015-08-06

I can't wait to see some samples.
Great find and worth the price. Wink

LittleAlex · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:20 am Post subject:

LittleAlex · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:44 am Post subject:

Really to say I stopped there only to pick up the tiny coffee pot jast for one cup (which did cost me damn much more - $5.49).

And only then I discovered near the old gaffer, which had been selling the various photo junk.

Olivier · Expire: 2015-08-06

Thank you.
That's a very good soft focus lens !
I would surely try it for portrait.
Smile

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Indeed, seems to be a fine soft focus lens!

Nesster · Expire: 2014-02-20

And yet, coffee and lens for $6.27, that's great shopping! I love the dirty result, this should be a fun lens once cleaned and set up.

LittleAlex · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:23 am Post subject:

mick232 · Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Posts: 25

I like the German text, which translates to: "we have been able to increase the speed of the lens by more than a stop so that it's now 1:9"

LittleAlex · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:23 pm Post subject:

I had used the device (which really is, us I believe kind of "periscope", constructed from two achromates) upon Canon 5D FF camera. There is as it works:

LittleAlex · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:36 pm Post subject:

There is as it works in portrait mode:

Olivier · Expire: 2015-08-06

That glows like Hamilton's 70s pictures.

Very nice portrait.

Nothing "bourgeois" in it. Wink

LittleAlex · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:42 pm Post subject:

There is one more sample

LittleAlex · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:13 am Post subject:

And one more

Olivier · Expire: 2015-08-06

Beautiful rendering and colors. Smile

Again with the Canon 5D ?

LittleAlex · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:30 am Post subject:

Olivier · Expire: 2015-08-06

Very good toy.
Full frame world at this price. I understand you're happy. Smile

LittleAlex · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 4:50 pm Post subject:

Igor · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:32 pm Post subject:

well, you can't call it sharp, but DREAMY for sure ! Smile

nice pics !

LittleAlex · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:20 pm Post subject:

Olivier · Expire: 2015-08-06

They look like Meniscus lenses shots : http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic.php?p=1410839#1410839

LittleAlex · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:42 am Post subject:

dickb · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 821

Funny to see this lens originally being intended for landscape photography (that's what Landschaftslinse means). You can use it for landscapes of course. I suppose on its intended film format and in black and white the results appear less soft focus. 6*9cm seems like a relatively small format for a 14cm lens to be a landscape lens, not a wide angle. Maybe the image circle is larger so larger formats could be used. Maybe it was cutting edge technology in 1923..

GoldMark · Joined: 21 Aug 2012 Posts: 185 Location: Germany

Cam: Sony NEX 7
Lens: Goerz Frontar (i think 1:9 10,5cm) from a box camera, adapted

Here a shot from this morning out of the car window while standing in traffic jam to the Swabian Alb

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

very nice!