Help place this Tessar

[Jack Conrad]

What camera did this Tessar lens come from? It's old, uncoated and has a focus tab with a built in helical. 12cm f4.5.
Serial Nr 579055
I'm assuming it was on a 120 mf or lf camera of some sort, but what?
Anyone have any idea? Thanks in advance.
It's built very solid. All brass. Rather heavy for it's compact size.

 

[tunalegs]

Graflex SLR possibly?

 

[View Range]

The SN is from about 1923. The lens may have been used on any number of cameras because Carl Zeiss Jena only made lenses and not cameras.

 

[Jack Conrad]

I just took this snapshot from my garage using a bellows attachment at about f5.6 or so. Looks sharp. I bumped up the contrast.

 

[Jack Conrad]

Graflex SLR possibly?

Aren't the old Graflex slr's bellows focus? Why the focus tab?

 

[Jack Conrad]

The SN is from about 1923. The lens may have been used on any number of cameras because Carl Zeiss Jena only made lenses and not cameras.

Thanks for the date. It's a Carl Zeiss Jena, by the way.

 

[Jack Conrad]

I think I figured it out. It goes to an Ernemann Klapp camera. Now all I have to do is find the camera at a garage sale and I'll be good to go. 😀

 

[raid]

I have a similar lens by Kodak.

 

[farlymac]

Good bit of sleuthing there, Jack. And you should get some good use out of it too.

PF

 

[Jack Conrad]

Good bit of sleuthing there, Jack. And you should get some good use out of it too.

PF

It doesn't matter if I get good use out of it, just so long as I get to
sniff some more Naptha. Oops! Did I write that? 😛

 

[Jack Conrad]

I have a similar lens by Kodak.

I don't doubt that Kodak made a very similar folding strut camera.

 

[tunalegs]

Aren't the old Graflex slr's bellows focus? Why the focus tab?

On some of the smaller ones the lensboard was fixed once extended. The National Graflex is the one that comes immediately to mind, though this lens wouldn't be from one.

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

Coarse and fine focus: the bellows are taken out first, then clamped, then turn the lens for fine adjustments. Don't forget you are behind the camera and moving bellows &c with a cloth over your head is a pita.

Regards, David