10x80 Flaks

[Le Breton]

Thanks for your kind comments and discretion behblc - and congratulations to your dkl hatleyj, it's an honest glass with an interesting history.

If everything goes according to plan, volume I of the book project on Flakglasses (entitled "The eyes of the Flak/Die Augen der Flak") will be available in December. Counting approximately 370 pages and mostly dealing with the historical aspects of these glasses, it will be the first of a planned series of three.

Zeiss did play a certain role (however minor) which will be dealth with in volune II.

It goes without saying that we'll keep the WAF-community posted on the book's release.

[behblc]

Peter, I know and apperciate the amount of work which has been put in to date and tight as I am I will not require too much arm twisting to buy Volume 1.
Looking forward to seeing it in print in due course.

[Mikedenmark]

Le breton, I tried sending a private message. But evil WA gods claim I cannot.
so, here is a link from another thread on camera lenses:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...ure-id92424703

The flak is unusual. Lens too, but that is not the issue here.

[Le Breton]

Dear Mikedenmark,

I've seen the picture, thanks. Its a very interesting one but copyrights on it are nothing less than criminal.

IMO the glass is a Schneider model which hasn't been catalogued yet. Can't be a 25x105 as that one doesn't fit the alu Busch cradle. Can't be a 15x105 either as that one looks entirely different. What do you think?

[Mikedenmark]

Yep, The owners of getty Images must be very very very rich people.

I know Dr. Seeger gave up on them. He wanted to use 2 images of theirs in his latest book. The short story is, the book would become so expensive no one would buy it.
The sad thing is, one of the images wasn´t Getty´s in the first place. They had scanned an old newspaper to get it. Un-named, and so far, not found.

But, and this may prove to be very good, all over the world more and more old newspapers are digitalised and are made available for searches.

One odd result is: The Bros Wright appears not to have been the first men flying.
They were 6-9 months late.
Who the first one was? Well, The Wrights did not build their own motor. Someone else did. And that guy put it into an airplane just to try it out.

Weird story, but once the old newspapers came online, 275 references to the motorbuilder´s flight was found.
So, not unknown, but Bros Wright made better spin, so to speak.

Eventually, we may find the original newspaper photo missing in Dr. Seegers book. (interesting workshop photo from Zeiss 1918.)