Semi-antique attic findings

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Oldest son excavated a dusty part of our attic today.
He surfaced with a semi-antique photo bag, which turned out
to contain my 2nd (The Zenith) and my 3rd (Edixa) real camera
and a few lenses.

The Jupiter-11 has an odd mount (M39), but the Edixa lenses
are all M42, which means that I have an adapter for them.
Have to confess that I had totally forgotten that I owned a
Carl Zeiss Lydith 30mm :slight_smile:

Far left you see the original loupe light shaft finder for the Edixa
— I upgraded it to a prism finder once upon a time.

But: would you care to have a guess about what the plastic
thing at far right might be?

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Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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Looks like some kind of centering optical mount…

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A device to mount filters on the lens (use a rectangular filter in the holder and screw the holder to the outside of the lens) ?

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Clearly a device meant to screw into one’s fingers in order to keep them in position.

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Looks pretty similar to the “Kodak Polycontrast Filter Holder” I have, although that was for use with an enlarger. I don’t have an enlarger or the filters themselves, so that’s the extent of knowledge on the subject, unfortunately.

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Questioning @Claes’ parenting ethic? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Bingo, Ingo!
@heckflosse and @ashurbanipal were the first to recognize
the use for this contraption. It was intended for rectangular Kodak Wratten filters,
and could be used on almost any lens. Which filter to pick was clearly described
(with transmission curves and full colour illustrations) in the Kodak Filter Book.

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The hideous lens shade can be removed, but since the filters were made of gelatine,
the shade offered extra protection for the sensitive surface.

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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