Pinkham & Smith Semi-Achromatic Doublet-Polaroid 804-'T'
Hi Folks
I'd picked up one of the most interestingly shaped glass curios I've seen, and of course I had to shoot it. This is the shot, and I named the it 'T', for triangle. The glass was reflecting some fairly intense highlights(for this lens), so I closed down the lens to bet. F6-F8. The makers of this lens were I believe possibly trying to tell us something by the way the F-stops are engraved on the lens, it's engraved F4.5.........F5...........F6.........Then F8.
So far in my very limited experience w/the the Ser. III, F6 has in fact, seemed a 'sweet spot' for me, so maybe the other marks are 'benchmarks' as far as what starts and what trails off at these stops. I'm sure I'm going to find out.
I shot this w/a very old Polaroid, and it still turned out despite being from a box that's about 6 yrs old.
I angled this thing at a fairly sharp angle toward the lens and the Ser. III reacted by rendering the front of it w/a still fairly crisp image over a soft one, and then merging the back end into PURE SMOKE.
I loaded up this image in my office w/the lights out last night, it looks too dark now when compared to the original Polaroid this morning so I've taken the time to match the jpeg to exactly what the Polaroid looks like and reloaded. Nothing else has been done to the shot.


Reader Comments (2)
You are having some definite creative fun.
Hey Steve
Thank you very much.....I just now had to re-crop it so it'd fit better horizontal wise. I'm feeling a little better using the lens, getting a bit more of a handle on this thing.
It's still an ordeal focusing this thing.
Thinking some more on what you said Steve, I still trip out on how they created this thing 100 yrs. ago. On top of that, these lense got a 'bum rap' for the longest, from folks who didn't understand them, and I say that, while I'll say at the same time that I'm STILL trying to understand these lenses.