[LargeFormat] Why are some Wollensak lenses printed backwards?

[Vincent Dobson]

This is so the camera operator (printing shop) sees the name correctly when
it reflects back from the shiny plate that they use in the printing
industry.

:)

Vince Dobson
Visions In Nature
www.VisionsInNature.com

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<:)From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
<:)Behalf Of Tim Atherton
<:)Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:16 PM
<:)To: largeformat@f32.net
<:)Subject: [LargeFormat] Why are some Wollensak lenses printed backwards?
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<:)
<:)Okay, a trivia question (to which I do not know that answer...).
<:)
<:)Why do some Wollensak lenses apparently have the writing around
<:)the front of
<:)the lens barrel printed in reverse - that is, a mirror image, so
<:)the writing
<:)is all back to front?
<:)
<:)I just bought one of these off ebay - a 15" f10 Apo Raptar. And
<:)no, it's not
<:)a Photoshop accident - check out the second image. I vaguely remembered
<:)seeing this before - I think it is in Steve Simmons LF book - 4 lenses in
<:)one photo, and the Wollensak has the writing on the front
<:)(nowhere else on
<:)it) mirrored... weird huh?
<:)
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<:)tim
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