That looks very smooth in the way it renders the tonality Jim. Very nice.

Hi J

Very smooth, likeable glow, very easy and delicate, and looks almost as it is generating its own luminosity.

Looking at the top shot, the light shining on the hood looks as if it came from someone inside the truck who's shining a light through the windshield.

Yes..........the build-up of the glow is very gradual, building up from nothing to very intense over a wide area, not the very narrow 'edgeglow' of many of these type lenses. Where did you get it Jim?

Fabulous shot, fabulous lens.

Take care

Thanks Steve and Jonathan. As you know all of these meniscii are a crap shoot. Keep rolling the dice and perhaps get lucky. That pretty much sums it up. This lens has beautiful script lettering reminiscent of the 1860's. It was also sold with other lenses from that era including a Holmes Booth Haydens by the same seller on Ebay. Other than that it's a lens that is a complete unknown at least to me. It says only LBB&Co. in very lovely script. Nothing else. I used it again last evening with a bunch of classic cars that stopped for the night in Tonopah. I'm anxious to get those shots developed.

Jim.......whenever you and the rest of the guys here have some spare time, go here..... http://www.surplusshed.com/finder.cfm ......This is the Surplus Shed where I got one of my Positive Meniscii. I got 2 286mm focal length elements which where in 65mm diameter(since that'd fit the Artar barrel) which I used in my Variable Positive Meniscus.

Looking at the glass from them, they've got polishing marks, and I'm wondering why. There may be something to each and every individual lensmaker like Pinkham et al polishing this kind of glass to achieve a unique effect.

Check out the surplus shed, the meniscus elements I got were $4 bucks a piece, and you can buy 10 pieces for $30.00. To gear up to make these things are a fortune, once they sit for years and nobody buys, they go for next to nothing.

These meniscus elements from the Surplus Shed are the ones that are almost as thick as the glass in Jim's Semi-Achromatic Series I. I was almost tempted to buy 30 or 40 of 'em for some later 'brainstorm' which would've amounted to $90-$120.

Take care

Just OMT Jim

Tying in to my last post, in buying the various meniscus elements, I've found that the meniscii with the most extreme curves are the ones that seem to give a rendering in the ballpark of the SA Series I as opposed to some of the diopters I've purchased that don't have a look anywhere near the look of a Pinkham.

If you got the time, and if you can get the glass out, can you upload a pic of the glass? If not, that's fine, just wanted to confirm or deny whether my hunch about the shape of the glass holds true.

Take care

Hi J. Sorry I missed this until I can't do anything about it. I'll do that on Friday next. Jim

Thanks

No problem.......in fact, you don't even have to take it out..........maybe when you got some spare time you can just take a peek at it, maybe that would give an idea as to how pro-nounced the curve is to the glass.

No rush, whenever you get around to it.

Ciao