{"id":32090,"date":"2025-08-09T01:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32090"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:00:14","slug":"a-weird-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-weird-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"a weird lens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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an unusual lens signed as from a Montreal dealer<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In issue 25-1 (June 1999), Bill Belier has a very strange lens in his column “A Treasure from My Collection<\/em>“. Bill explains, “This month\u2019s \u201ctreasure\u201d comes from Gerard Spiegel of Scarsdale, New York. A member of P.H.S.C. for over twenty years, he is well known throughout the photographic fraternity as a collector and writer.”<\/p>\n

Bill contacted our then editor, Bob Lansdale, to share Gerald’s letter and inquiry. Gerald writes, “In the enclosed Polaroid you will see a\u00a0brass-tube lens with an end cap with a\u00a0pivoting shutter plate and slot for five\u00a0Waterhouse stops. The stops are\u00a0numbered with the opening diameters in millimeters from 10 through\u00a048. The pivoting plate[ is marked]\u00a0\u201c6 1\/2 IN\u201d; directly below is an egg-shaped logo engraved \u201cHearn &\u00a0Harrison, Montreal\u201d.<\/p>\n

“The entire front end screws neatly \u00a0to the end of the tube, but there is no\u00a0flange or other provision to mount\u00a0the tube to a camera body. The lack\u00a0of a mount is not a problem as\u00a0Simon Wing regularly used a \u201cpress\u00a0fit\u201d, where a tube would be forced\u00a0into a fabric-lined hole in a lens\u00a0board.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s the Hearn & Harrison name\u00a0that I cannot locate.\u00a0This has the earmarks of a tintype lens,\u00a0and if it didn\u2019t have the unique front end,\u00a0I would have assumed it was off a four-tube brass lensboard with a 6 1\/2\u201d focal\u00a0length.” …<\/p>\n

Members read more of Gerald’s letter and its outcome in the pdf file for issue 25-1 on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive. See above and at right under “Membership” to join. Questions can be emailed to Lilianne at member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. In issue 25-1 (June 1999), Bill Belier has a very strange lens in his column “A Treasure from My Collection“. Bill explains, “This month\u2019s \u201ctreasure\u201d comes from Gerard Spiegel of Scarsdale, New York. A member of P.H.S.C. for over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4333,401,149],"class_list":["post-32090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-column","tag-lens","tag-tintype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32094,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32090\/revisions\/32094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}