Emmanuel Bigler écrivait:
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mais ou avez vous appris cela ?>
> Ben, par les échanges sur le forum galerie-photo
> !
> et ça fait plus de 10 ans que ça dure, donc
> évidemment on ne peut pas tout apprendre en 1/4
> d'heure de pratique du forum ;-)
Pardonnez mon anglais:
Where to look for information on lenses?
Links are ephemeral. There’s no guarantee that any of the links below still works.
Information given on the sites listed is, in general, incomplete and inconsistent. If you can’t live with ambiguity and confusion, hide under your bed.
A number of lens types were made for many years, some with periodic major redesigns, others without. Either way, coverage claims change over time. “Fast” tessar types’ coverage has grown with redesigns. Dagor types’ coverage has shrunk with reconsideration of what coverage means. Be skeptical of all catalogs’ coverage claims.
All sorts of lenses:
[
www.cameraeccentric.com] Many catalogs.
[
savazzi.freehostia.com] Click on Old Literature, bottom left, to get to a number of Nikon LF lenses catalogs; his list of Nikon process lenses is incomplete
[
www.dioptrique.info] More than 1,000 lens prescriptions, mainly taken from patents, with calculated performance
[
www.graflex.org] Michael Gudzinowicz’ list.
[
www.largeformatphotography.info] Read the lens FAQs.
A Lens Collector’s Vade Mecum. A book originally published on CD ROM, now available as a download from [
www.antiquecameras.net] ~ 700 pp. Idiosyncratic, incomprehensible, inconsistent, sometimes incorrect, often infuriating, invaluable.
Ancient lenses:
[
www.antiquecameras.net] This site is well worth exploring. A Lens Collectors’ Vade Mecum can be bought through it.
[
piercevaubel.com] There’s a lot to wade through. There are lens catalogs and lenses are mentioned in camera catalogs; the site is strongly focused on U.S. wooden field cameras. Brought to my attention by Louis Pacilla, to whom much credit is due.
Berthiot lenses:
[
www.collection-appareils.fr] In French.
Boyer lenses:
[
www.galerie-photo.com]
Congo lenses (Yamasaki Optical):
[
www.cosmonet.org]
East bloc lenses:
[
www.arnecroell.com] Also has Voigtländer LF lenses 1949-72. Presents data on LF lenses from the 1963 GOI and 1970 and ’71 Yakovlev catalogs
Fujinon LF lenses:
[
www.thalmann.com]
[
www.subclub.org]
Kodak lenses:
[
www.bnphoto.org] This site is hard to navigate, is worth the trouble.
Nikon process lenses:
[
www.galerie-photo.com] All of ‘em.
Rodenstock LF lenses (mainly current production):
[
www.prograf.ru] Some older, all post 1945
[
www.rodenstock-photo.com] Current production only.
[
skydrive.live.com] Some current, discontinued, process and enlarging lenses
Schneider lenses:
[
www.schneideroptics.com] Hover over the info tab.
[
web.archive.org] Mid-1950s to around 2000 or so. Brought to my attention by Oren Grad, to whom much credit is due.
Soviet lenses:
[
www.lallement.com] Download the 1963 GOI and 1970 and ’71 Yakovlev catalogs. In Russian.
[
www.photohistory.ru] Covers fewer lenses but includes newer ones than the GOI and Yakovlev catalogs. In Russian.
USAF lens datasheets:
[
archive.org] No coverage of lenses after the late 1960s.
