Heidoscop/Don Lopp

["Gary Cullen/Karoline Cullen" <gcullen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At the Vancouver camera show on Sunday I picked up a Heidoscop that has been quite professionally modified to take 120 roll film. It's a 45x107 version but the film apertures are open to 5x5cm which will fit very closely into Joels mounts with just a little black showing around the edges. The 5.5cm Tessars will be a little on the wide side, which is nice, but may suffer from edge drop off from being designed for 4x4cm use. I ran a roll through yesterday and will report on the results as soon as I see them. It's a very early Heidoscop, the Zeiss Tessars date it as 1927. (If anyone wants a list of lens makers serial number/date reference I can email them one, I have a list for Zeiss, Schneider, Meyer and Steinheil from 1930 to 1960.)

I've posted 3 photos of the Heidoscop on my web page:

http://www.user.dccnet.com/gcullen/heidos~1.jpg

http://www.user.dccnet.com/gcullen/heidos~2.jpg

http://www.user.dccnet.com/gcullen/heidos~3.jpg

And if anyone is interested in seeing a very early stereo camera, this is my wet-plate sliding box stereo camera that dates to the early 1850's.

http://www.user.dccnet.com/gcullen/sterdag.jpg

Also at the Vancouver show was Don Lopp, it was good to see him back out to the shows after his long bout with back trouble. He brought along some excellent slides to show off taken with his Rolleidoscop.

Anyone going to be at the Puyallup WA show on the 24th?

 

Gary