[LargeFormat] Why are some Wollensak lenses printed backwards?

[Stuart Phillips]

You really wouldn't believe something like this unless you saw it. REALLY
weird.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: [LargeFormat] Why are some Wollensak lenses printed backwards?


> Okay, a trivia question (to which I do not know that answer...).
>
> Why do some Wollensak lenses apparently have the writing around the front
of
> the lens barrel printed in reverse - that is, a mirror image, so the
writing
> is all back to front?
>
> I just bought one of these off ebay - a 15" f10 Apo Raptar. And no, it's
not
> a Photoshop accident - check out the second image. I vaguely remembered
> seeing this before - I think it is in Steve Simmons LF book - 4 lenses in
> one photo, and the Wollensak has the writing on the front (nowhere else on
> it) mirrored... weird huh?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/a8hq
>
> http://tinyurl.com/a8hm
>
>
> tim
>
>
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