1914 Dresden

40 1914 Dresden

Over a hundred years old and I am amazed that I can use this lens on my camera. It is from a medium format camera, the Zeiss ICA. Of course it is a lens and a shutter that was originally on the end of a bellows of the "folding camera" designed in the early Twentieth Century. 

The lens, I believe, is made at the Carl Zeiss main complex in Jena. The rim of the lens says Carl Zeiss Jena. The shutter mechanism I think comes from the works in Dresden before the Great War. It is a 135mm f6.3. 

The way it works on my SONY 7r is to keep the shutter open, and focus with a bellows. The bellows are for a Leica and I have a Leica to e-mount adapter on the camera end. On the lens side, I modified the lens holder so I could turn it around and hold the lens out from the bellows. It has to set a little away from the adapter so that you can adjust the aperture.

Since I took this photo I have moved this lens to a different Leica bellows that are a little heavier. I have used the small bellows for a 1937 Graflex lens I have.

I hope to add a photo I have made with this lens soon.

Legacy Lenses: https://www.flickr.com/gp/timmwheat/BLT211 

1914 Carl Zeiss Photos: https://www.flickr.com/gp/timmwheat/v4d68N 

The Camera: https://www.flickr.com/gp/timmwheat/GiK39e 

My Voigtländer lens on my desk.