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From 1869 to 1912/13, when the so-called UR-Leica appeared, Leitz existed and produced quite a few interesting and sophisticated photographical and optical equipment. One of those has been illustrated on page19 of van Hasbroeck's big book, but only as a sketch. I have been very lucky to trace and acquire in the 1980s a sample of this macrophotographic camera manufactured one hundred years before, which remained for long the oldest piece of my Fontenelle Leitz-Leica Collection. Here are a few pixes (made with an SL2 and Macro-Elmarit-R 60), as far as I know the very first to be published of this venerable equipment. It was in perfect condition and absolutely complete, including the tripod magnifier for the ground glass, the black cloth sleeve to avoid light interference between the lens and the microscope ocular, the frames for the "negative" glass plates etc...

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Very interesting. Can you please provide more details of the objectives used including any engraved codes/numbers etc ... I'm interested to find out if they are specially computed for photographic purposes or if they are regular Leitz microscope lenses.

 

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dunk

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Very interesting. Can you please provide more details of the objectives used including any engraved codes/numbers etc ... I'm interested to find out if they are specially computed for photographic purposes or if they are regular Leitz microscope lenses.

 

Thanks

 

dunk

 

The lens was fixed and not marked in any way. But Leitz is known for having produced specifically computed photographic lenses under Ludwig Leitz as from 1888/1890.

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Are there two lenses on a turret?

 

Cheers

 

dunk

 

As for the old plate camera, as I said above, the lens was fixed. If you refer to the microscope I added to show how the camera was used, the answer is : yes, two lenses mounted on a turret (microscope nr 135880).

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I would like to see it in color, just for the wood! :)

 

Sorry, but I sold my collection in 1993, and my photos come from my archives.

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