E Krauss Paris Tessar Zeiss 15cm f4.5 Lens M45 Mount Large Format Antique 1910s.

Very rare antique brass lens made in France around 1910s, it was pulled from an antique large format camera (Houghton Victo Triple Extension Folding Field Camera), its image circle covers 4.75” x 6.5” in.

Condition:

Very good condition for it age.

Normal signs of use/wear, minor dents on rear barrel but no affect upon use.

Lens glasses still looks good, a couple of tiny cleaning marks/scratches, unnoticeable, no affect on images.

Aperture ring turns smoothly and diaphragm blades works properly.

Please check the photos for more details.

For more information about Krauss Paris lenses, please refer to the link below:

1. Lens Culture: E. Krauss, Early Cinema, and Parisian Instrument Culture at the turn of the 20th Century

https://hal.science/hal-03040261/document

2. Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera, USSR 1929

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_a_Movie_Camera

3. THE CAMERAS IN ‘MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA’

https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:34308/datastreams/CONTENT/content

* E. KRAUSS TESSAR ZEISS 21cm f4.5 TELEPHOTO LENS #156458

This lens was used often, and appears regularly in the film with the Model L, usually in reflec- tion. Krauss was a Paris based optical manufacturer founded in the late 1880s that made Zeiss lenses under licence. The Tessar (from the Greek Tessares = four) was designed by Paul Ru- dolph of Carl Zeiss in 1902, and is the most successful lens configuration of all, licensed to many manufacturers. Over 116 years on the name is still used for Zeiss’ four element mobile phone camera lenses. The Tessar design consists of four lens elements in two groups, the front pair separated by an air space and the rear pair cemented together as a ‘doublet’

** E. KRAUSS TESSAR ZEISS 15cm f4.5 TELEPHOTO LENS #157754

A 15cm version of the lens appears briefly at the ‘out-of-focus flowers’ sequence [00:12:39] & [00:12:42] and shortly afterwards at the end of Part 1 [00:12:59] and the beginning of Part 2 [00:13:04] using a closing and opening iris to show this changeover symbolically. Debrie made a 90mm iris (catalogue illustration below) to fit in front of the lens, and a 140mm iris for the accessory carrier on the tripod (not used in the film). However, this iris looks like an earlier type, perhaps fitted to the Interview. The image of the lens is reflected. This lens does not appear anywhere else in the film. The outer rim with the protruding lugs is for attaching acces- sories such as a lens hood and filter holder.