What was the Voigtlander 80/2.3 Portrait Lens Made for?

[CameraQuest]

OK,
who knows what camera this lens was made for?
Vintage about 1905.

Comparison shot side by side a Leitz 50/2 Summitar.

Thanks
Stephen

 

[bentheshark]

Wasn't that the portrait lens Voigtlander designed for the M8?

 

[JohnM]

My best guess is that it is a version of the Petzval lenses that Voigtlander copied for use on stuff like this....

http://www.dtristramludwig.com/collection.html

 

[Al Kaplan]

Nice site! It makes me want to get my 5x7 E&HT Anthony ready for use again. I haven't used it since the early 1970's. I even found a vintage wooden tripod to use with it and my quarter plate Graflex SLR.

 

[kxl]

I'm wiith John... see this link (under the Optics section)... not that I advocate Wikipedia as a scholarly reference...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef_Maximili%C3%A1n_Petzval

 

[jimgalli]

This is an ususual Petzval according to the Vade Mecum, designed by Voigtlaender with the rear group being 2 cemented elements instead of air spaced. In this size the coverage would be miniscule as it only had a 22 degree angle of view. The VM notes that in the early 1900's when cine were first being made this was one of the lenses they used because of it's great speed. My guess is at 8cm this may well have been used on 35mm cine 100 years ago.

 

[CameraQuest]

Thanks to all!

This is going to a rather serious Voigtlander collector in Japan, and I wanted to be sure of what I am shipping him.

Stephen

 

[Sonnar2]

8cm isn't a LF lens, 5x7" or something. It's much too short. Even less when considered to be a "portrait lens" (maybe 28-30° angle). What's the screwmount diameter?
Could it be a lens for the Ernemann camera? (but it looks more like ~1880 than 1920)

However, S/N 88,611 referrs to 1907 according to THIS list.

 

[JohnM]

1905-ish actually sounds about -- Voigtlander would advertise these as companions to the Kodaks of the day.