Cooke Series II -Anastigmat lens-205mm.f4.5-13x18cm

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Manuel Gomes Teixeira - 24 Mar 2004 00:00 GMT

I've acquired this lens yesterday, and perhaps someone can help with
the meaning of the indication that is near the f22 aperture engraving:
"EXT 324 mm". There is two aperture marks, at max aperture, one is at
4.5 obviously, and the other at 8. I suppose this triplet is not
convertible. This lens, as far I could discover was optimized for
portraits and in the lens rear element is written in french to unscrew
it 3 turns to make it sharper.

I've made several searches in different forum archives , at the
article once published by View camera magazine and in Cooke's website
, but nothing specific about this particular lens was found. Any more
details about this lens would be appreciated . Thank you all.

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Richard Knoppow - 24 Mar 2004 04:04 GMT

> I've acquired this lens yesterday, and perhaps someone can help with
> the meaning of the indication that is near the f22 aperture engraving:
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> , but nothing specific about this particular lens was found. Any more
> details about this lens would be appreciated . Thank you all.

This may sound too simple but why not ask Cooke via e-mail?
They seem to have a good sense of the history of their
lenses. They may be able to identify it and also date it for
you.

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