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- OBJECT TYPE
- 90MM/F6.8/FOCUSING
- DATE
- 1957
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1995.1461.001
- MANUFACTURER
- LINHOF PRECISION CAMERA WORKS
- MODEL
- TECHNIKA ANGULON
- LOCATION
- Munich, Federal Republic of Germany
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 3121440
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL WITH GLASS LENS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 10.0 cm
- Width
- 9.5 cm
- Height
- 3.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Photography
- Category
- Still camera parts
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- LINHOF
- Country
- Federal Republic of Germany
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Munich
Context
- Country
- Worldwide
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- PROBABLY USED IN THE 1950S AND 1960S
- Canada
-
PART OF A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT FROM THE ESTATE OF WILFRED HAROLD OLSON, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF DOMINION WIDE PHOTOGARPHY LTD., OTTAWA (C 1950-1995). MR. OLSON WAS A PHOTOGRAPHER FOR MANY YEARS AND HIS STUDIO DID WORK FOR BOTH THE OTTAWA JOURNAL AND THE CBC. - Function
-
USED, WHEN ATTACHED TO A CAMERA, TO BEND LIGHT RAYS TO CREATE AN IMAGE WHICH IS IMPRINTED ON THE FILM ON THE BACK OF A CAMERA. THIS MEDIUM TELEPHOTO LENS IS USED MAINLY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL WORK. - Technical
-
IN SPECIAL CASES THE ANGULON LENSES MAY BE USED FOR THE NEXT LARGER NEGATIVE FORMATS THEY HAVE BEENDESIGNED FOR, AND GIVE GOOD RESULTS WHEN THEY ARE STOPPED DOWN TO F/22 [REF. 1] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PRINTED ON BOARD: 'Linhof/ TECHNIKA'/ PRINTED ON SHUTTER CASING: 'SYNCHRO-COMPUR/ 6.8 8 11 16 22 32/ LINHOF/ 7347737'/ PRINTED AROUND LENS CASING: 'Angulon 1:6,8/90 3121440 Schneider-Kreuzauach'/ HANDWRITTEN ON LENS BOARD: 'MAIN/ SPRING/ [?]'
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE BUT HANDWRITTEN NOTE ON BOARD STATES 'MAIN SPRING [?]' WHICH MAY INDICATE THE SPRING IS BROKEN
- Finish
- BOARD: FRONT - MATTE SILVER; BACK - MATTE BLACK/ SHUTTER AND LENS CASING SHINY METAL WITH BLACK PRINTING; AND GLOSSY BLACK WITH WHITE PRINTING
- Decoration
- MFG NAME AND MODEL ON LENS BOARD
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LINHOF PRECISION CAMERA WORKS, Lens, circa 1957, Artifact no. 1995.1461, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.1461.001/
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