Sunday, August 22, 1976

Pinkham and Smith 14" Bi-Quality F4.5

....
....
Pinkham and Smith 14" Bi-Quality F4.5
Sold by
Dagor77 to Photo-paapsi, US $3,501.00

Not just a nice and handsome lens, this one comes WITH the ORIGINAL CAP and flange!! A Legendary lens the Bi-Quality is one of the most sought after lenses for the portraitist/pictorialist...but then you already knew that since its you who have been driving the price of these things up like crazy. This one is in very nice shape with light signs of use and big bright glass.

The glass is uncoated so shadows are full and rich, the iris could cut cigar stubbs its so perfect and round. I can see just a couple of very fine cleaning wisps and they are small ones at that...an amazing coincidence of preservation given such a large field of glass for maladies to perform on. The lens stands a bit over 5" tall and the flange OD is also a hair over 5" so Deardorff use is indeed possible, actual mount hole need only be 4" across.