Re: MF Zeiss Tessar Pair on ebay

[Steve Spicer <s.spicer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:03 16/04/98 -0700, you wrote:

>> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=10967805

>And guess what, they're mine! I put them up for auction on eBay a few days
>ago. The haze would easily clean but I thought they had more value as a
>collectors item for those nutty Zeiss collectors out there rather than as
>usable lenses. They are new in their boxes from 1922!
>

Having used a friends Rolleidoscop with excellent results, I would expect
that these would be on a par, and make a good user-MF-camera. The
Rolleidoscop I used dated from 1929, and had un-coated Zeiss Tessars also,
but 75mm. I expected flare to be a problem, but was pleasently surprised.

Steve Spicer