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disemjg · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 474 Location: Washington, DC

I have had this lens for quite some time; it came to me on a 4X5 Revolving Back Auto Graflex. It's full markings are:

Mono-Werke, Magdeburg. Heliostigmat f7.7 190mm

The lens is mounted on a non-original board and I do not think it is original to the camera, although it is probably contemporaneous. It is in a brass barrel mount. I do not see a serial number.

I can't say that I have ever heard of "Mono-Werke". If anyone can tell me something about the company, and the lens, I would like to learn more.

Thanks

John

45PSS · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:00 am Post subject:

Its a Voigtländer A.G., Wien, Austria, later Braunschweig, (Brunswick), Germany lens. Very little on the Heliostigmat in A Lens Collectors Vade Mecum. Likely a portrait or projection lens as this is the usage for the ones listed.
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disemjg · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 474 Location: Washington, DC

Thanks for the reply. Something about the lens made me think that it might be an early Voigtlander, but there was nothing I could pin down, and the name in the markings made no sense. In any event it looks good on the camera. I'll consider it to be a portrait lens as it is on a camera and not a projector.

John