"murrayatuptowngallery" <murrayatuptowngallery@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I couldn't tell from the photo what the scales say, so when
>I get it
> I'll learn more. It has one scale that looked like shutter
> speeds, one
> that looked like maybe US stops and a third that said W.A.
>
> As far as being a dog, it's a rescue on at that...shutter
> is boogered
> up, iris missing or not working (wide open).
>
> It's an opportunity, not a problem. I get to actually make
> Waterhouse
> stops instead of just recommending them to others!
>
> Hopefully it has some interesting quality, and is really
> as wide as
> predicted. All my other RR's are Kodak 3A type, not fast,
> not wide.
>
> I'll let you know, Richard.
>
> Thanks, both.
>
Let me know what kind of shutter its in if you can tell.
That will also give a clue as to the age of the lens.
For some reason both Bausch & Lomb and Kodak continued
to mark Rapid Rectilinear lenses with US stops long after
the system went out of use. B&L built most of the Kodak R-R
lenses up to the early 1930's.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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