Ever fancy a Planar Viewing Lens & A Heidosmat Taking Lens?

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Well, apparently, someone does/did. 😱
It's currently for sale

Just when you think you have seen it all...

Regards,
Brett

 

[Roberto V.]

I've always wondered if a Heidosmat would take good photos. Someone buy it and find out 😛

 

[Krosya]

Amazing yet Interesting

 

[Roberto V.]

Fingers crossed 😀

 

[Dan Daniel]

What the...? I've never been inside one of the later Rolleis, but on every TLR I've worked on, the viewing lens is one continuous barrel while the taking lens is in two pieces to go on the front and back of the shutter block. How did they even assemble this??

 

[PMCC]

TTV photography has arrived, big time.

 

[Mark Wood]

What the...? I've never been inside one of the later Rolleis, but on every TLR I've worked on, the viewing lens is one continuous barrel while the taking lens is in two pieces to go on the front and back of the shutter block. How did they even assemble this??

Hasn't someone just swapped over the name rings around the two lenses? The taking lens looks rather like the Planar here.

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Hasn't someone just swapped over the name rings around the two lenses? The taking lens looks rather like the Planar here.

Indeed I suspect so, nevertheless, it makes a certain statement about the owner's or repairer's competence, yes?
Regards,
Brett

 

[uhligfd]

A late April fools joke? Or an early one for April 1, 2012, maybe.

 

[hexiplex]

Wouldn't it be such a sweet, sweet luxury to actually have a Planar taking lens AND Planar viewing lens?

 

[JPD]

Hasn't someone just swapped over the name rings around the two lenses? The taking lens looks rather like the Planar here.

You're spot on.

The viewing lens has a faint inward bulging reflection that is normal for triplets, and the taking lens has the outward bulging, and almost mirror-like, reflection that is expected to be seen on double-Gauss lenses like the Planar.