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Graf Variable 15.5-18” f3.8-f4.5 Series A Anastigmat Soft Focus Pictorialism Super Rare Original Front Cap & Flange Edward Weston
        

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  • Listing Date
    :Jun 05, 2026 22:42
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    :Jun 07, 2026 21:42
  • Auction Number
    :m1178010792
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    :Damaged and stained (specify in description)
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コレクション整理品です。

Edward Westonも使ったPictoriarismに代表される有名なアメリカで製造された可変機構を備えたソフトフォーカスレンズです。

ポートレートの距離では14x17、12x20までカバーすることが報告されているので
カタログ値の9x11よりも実際には無限遠でも11x14は最低でもカバーするのではないかと思われます。

特許が発行される前に製造されたPatent Pendingの時期に作られた高速なSeries Aのサンプルで、通常であれば16-18” f3.8-f4.5であるところが、このサンプルでは大変珍しい15.5-18” f3.8-f4.5となっていて、大変興味深いサンプルです。その理由で実物を手にとって調べるために思わず買ってしまったわけですが、非常にレアです。
16-18”の同時期のPatent Pendingの他実物サンプルと比較しても、バレルのサイズやガラスの大きさは共に一致します。

Patent pendingの刻印があることから、製造は特許が下りた1923年7月以前ということになります。

特許についてはこちらです。
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1463132A/en

カタログはこちら。
https://www.cameraeccentric.com/static/img/pdfs/graf_1.pdf

ソフトフォーカスレンズなので一番外側の前玉1枚が動く機構になっています。Anastigmatとして使う場合は
15.5” の位置で使い、ソフトフォーカス機構のバレルを回して一番18” f4.5の位置で最大のソフトフォーカス変化になります。

レンズの状態
4群4枚の非対称設計です。
よって貼り合わせ面が無くバルサム切れも存在しません。

内部清掃済みで
全体としてクリアで撮影に影響するような問題はありませんが、前玉に薄い拭きスレやごく僅かに一部薄曇りがあります。この時代のもとしては軽微だと思います。
コバ落ち(レンズ側面の黒インクの剥がれ)が写真の通り一部ありますが軽微でこちらも撮影に影響ありません。

絞り羽は完全で真円絞りで動作します。若干の錆の付着と硬めです。
ソフトフォーカス機構も若干硬めですが問題無く動作します。

光学設計者及び会社のオーナーであったクリストファー グラフさんは、ドイツからアメリカへの移民で、1928年に亡くなりました。

Christopher Graf, the president and the designer of Graf Optical Co. died at the age of 67 in Feb. 20th, 1928 at his home according to the newspaper below.
He was born in Germany Aug. 28th, 1860.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28307823/chris-graf-obit/

製造から100年以上経過している中古レンズです。
その点をご理解頂き
ノークレーム、ノーリターンにてお願い致します。

(2025年 3月 24日 7時 48分 追加)
以下レンズボードにレンズをマウントするために必要な情報です。
座金内径 116.74mm
座金外径 142mm
後玉外径 112.34mm
座金後面からの後玉突出距離 26.78mm
座金ねじ山径バレル本体側 117.85mm
バレルの座金と接する面の直径 138.83mm
その面のすぐ前(12.03mm)にある絞り調整リング外径 145.55mm

(2025年 3月 25日 18時 56分 追加)
レンズの重さは座金を含めて
2.4kg
です。
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