withdrawn: Taylor 7" Rapid Rectilinear lens

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Well, this is surely only for a fraction of the members here, who are into pictorial photographic work ("Seele" where are you... Wink

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I have a (close to) perfect condition Rapid Rectilinear lens, made by Taylor of Leicester (later well known as Taylor, Taylor & Hobson TTH), f8 / 7" focal length (exactly 6.94" as engraved), iris stops 8-64, leather front cap, with cardbox. Rear 1.5" (ca 38mm) screw mount (Leica enlarger thread mount adaptor fits loosely, but works fine, so no exotic adaptor needed). Cover should be 6 1/2 x 4 3/4" ("half plate") since this is also engraved (ca 165 x 120mm for us "metrics"). The Lens Vademecum mentions it for "portrait and landscape" work.

The small size and easy mount makes it an ideal lens for DSLR work.

I will take offers for that nice piece. Please contact me directly using postmaster@macrolenses.de

Here something about the history of that lens design, which was invented by Dr H A Steinheil:
http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/jloomis/eop601/notes/history/rapid/rapid.html and this is the design:

Here now some shots I did using that lens, late at night (WB a bit off, though) using suitable tubes, all full format strainght from the cam, unaltered...

and a night shot to the near castle ("Windeck" - windy corner) from the windows upstairs:

Carlsson · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 793 Location: Portugal

Wow, what a beauty!

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

The more I look at it Sandy, the more I think I should keep it...
Just found it while I was looking for some other lenses.

dakoo · Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Posts: 603

Klaus, not that i am interested in buying or anything.
Just out curiosity, did u make any samples with this lense on DSLR ?
Would be great to see some, Abbaz always has such interesting old lenses samples on his flickr stream.

fates · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 108

That weblink was an interesting read Klaus, this kinda blew my mind:
The real clue to the construction of the Rapid Rectilinear lay in the choice of glass. The two glass types should differ as much as possible in refractive index yet be close in dispersive powers. The lower-index positive elements were inside, close to the stop, while the higher-index negative elements were outside.... If the two glasses were widely different in properties the lens became long and worked at a higher aperture, while if the glasses were closely similar the lens became more compact, the components more meniscus-shaped, and the angular field became larger, though at a smaller aperture.

Yeah man, mount this up and take us back to 1910!

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Pics added per request...and added a copy to the Gallery section here, since it might be of interest anyway.

Krisgage · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 681 Location: Singapore

Just curious here, does this lens has focusing or u need to mount onto a bellow ?

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

This is a barrel lens and thus has no focusing.