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Steinheil Selenar 1.5/75mm ..ever seen? Neither did I
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:18 pm    Post subject: Steinheil Selenar 1.5/75mm ..ever seen? Neither did I Reply with quote
Never seen that lens before, looks rather new type (80ies??)
Click here to see on Ebay

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I never heard also , who pay 1000 USD for lens modification ? It has bullshit smell...


PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some crazy people do... Wink Wink
But honestly I doubt that, just an "arsenal copy cat" I guess...

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The lens would be from the fourties or fifties, when Steinheil had a chrome finish. Positively not much later than the sixties, Steinheil quit the camera lens business around 1970.

There was a Casca II lens of these specs - but supposedly only ten were built, making it the rarest and most valuable lens for one of the rarest and most collectable high-end rangefinders. If that one is one of these, it would be a monument of decadent destruction - the unmodified lens would have been worth five to ten times as much.

The ultra swirly bokeh makes me slightly doubt that, though - this lens certainly does not look as if it was designed for 24x36 coverage. Perhaps it is a (more narrow) movie version of that design - that the lens seems to be cleanly separable from the helicoid does also point in that direction.

Sevo


PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very well seen Sherlock ... ehh, Sevo!!

I also doubt that this is a 24x36mm lens,
the vignetting and swirly bokeh indeed points
in that direction. Need to see which movie
lenses Steinheil made, not really my area of
interest though.


PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just found that lens, as a CULMINON 1.5 75mm sold in Nov 2007 for $455 in USA (I know the seller), bought by a chinese buyer - darn, I must have been sleeping...



PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting find!


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 11:27 pm    Post subject: well, another one showed up... Reply with quote
RARE 75MM F1.5 CULMINON by STEINHEIL M42 / SCREW MOUNT
CLEAN LUBED & ADJUSTED - SUPER RARE & FAST SPEED LENS



Click here to see on Ebay


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It went above 1000 USD I did estimate to 700-900 USD.


PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
It went above 1000 USD I did estimate to 700-900 USD.


I and Attila followed the last minutes of the auction live on Skype... it was fun even if the price is exaggerated oif based only on photographic merit. Being very rare I guess it is now in the hands of some greedy collector.


PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2009 1:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A G Photography wrote:
Being very rare I guess it is now in the hands of some greedy collector.


Perhaps next time there should be a clause somewhere - the lens is meant for photographers and not collectors. Smile (I know I am not being logically.


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Who says it won't be used...bare assumptions seldom work well Wink Wink


PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2009 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just got a Steinheil Culminar 2.8/85 VL, much cheaper and also very special in character! Wink


PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2009 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Congrats Carsten, let's see some pics here please!
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