[LargeFormat] a nice lens for 11x14

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] a nice lens for 11x14


> Rich:
>
> I don't know how old they are but think that they go back
to the early
> 1900s.
>
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>
>
>
>
> tripspud wrote:
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> > Hi Philip!
> >
> >      Is this an older lens, like before WWII?
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > philip lambert wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is it a practical alternative to take several photos
with a more
> >>realistically priced wide angle lens and stitch them
together digitally?  PL
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "LNPhoto" <LNPhoto@twmi.rr.com>
> >>To: "f32" <largeformat@f32.net>
> >>Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:23 AM
> >>Subject: [LargeFormat] a nice lens for 11x14
> >>
> >>
> >>>I thought this might interest Jim Hemenway
> >>>
>
>>>http://www.cliveruss.com/classiclns/hypergon150/hypergon.
html
> >>>
> >>
>
>
  The Hypergon patent is dated 1900. It is USP 706,650,
German patent 126,500. The German patent attributes it to
C.P.Goerz but the inventor is actually Emile von Hoegh.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com