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Fontenelle archives 13 : 7 little jewels and a huge "bottle"


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Old brass lenses by Leitz are wonderful pieces of workmanship. We were happy to have in the Fontenelle collection a complete set of tiny repro lenses in their original boxes : Mikro-Summar 24 and 35 mm, Summar 42, 64 and 80 mm and Mikro-Summar 100 and 120 mm.

Totally different, yet from the same origin and also brass, a huge 400 mm projection lens weighing no less than 2,190 grams; the photo of the "beast" next to a classical 5 cm Elmar gives an idea of its size.

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What were these small lenses used for? As part of a copy stand?

 

Lenses for microphotography with proper focusing equipment... Leitz still made such items in the '70s (named Photar, you could mount them on Leicaflex with bellows); the link between lenses for cameras and lenses for microscopes, which Leitz made for >100 years (Kellner, the company which became Leitz after few years, was founded in Wetzlar in 1841 to manufacture a "new" type of achromatic lens for microscopes)

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