Arri Super 16mm lens remount

Lenses with personality

2010, I was part cameraman and part exibit at Vintage Goodwood, filming Molly Parkin's 60's fashion show with the SR2... the event was a mecca for camermen and cameras of all shapes and sizes.. a DP with a Red camera crew recognised me.. hailed me with .. it's the lens guy... have you anything that flares?! Unfortunatly the only flares I had I was wearing... and the only lenses I had brought that would cover the Red sensor were PL mounted Meyer's and Pentacons... just wouldn't flare!
still, recognition of sorts, by ones peers...

It's a shame, a few of my lenses, the ones with personality... don't have the oportunity to be used so much... often because they won't cut with anything else on film or video!..

example photos, on a GH1, click for full res 1920x1080

GH1 with Cooke Speed series II - 75mm f2


	its not about the camera, its about the cameraman.. but sometimes, its about the lens

Kinoptic Tega:		Only covers S16, but a favorite wacky lens. 8 blade aperture.
		Fast, f1.2, 16mm lenses on micro 4/3rds... even a 12mm has shallow depth of field! Zeiss Mk1 primes, f1.2 on the GH1....
Konica Hexanon 57mm f1.2		really fast full frame lenses... either the Nikkor f1.2 or, I think, the even better Hexanon. fast, low contrast, sharp, beautiful out of focus bokeh... Here's a shot that didn't make it into the final video, because it was just too pretty compared to the Nikons on a 7D (GH1 Hexanon f1.2: test footage, GH1 ) ref: DAWN PENN - "City Life" Official Music Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5vlx06pD4
Zeiss Tessar 8cm f2.8 c1937		..with T2 to Nikon or PL adapter. 270deg helicoid !.. soft portrait lens, bokeh not great wide open, but gone by f4. and always soft out of focus. seems to have it's own built in fog filter.. probably oxidation on the front lens (that I'm loath to wipe off)... more here: pre-war tessar
Zeiss Tessar 12cm f2.7 VI2 c1924		close focus abt 4ft, and a mad 630deg helicoid !!. Out-of-focus areas are very soft, sometimes a light halo and always circular as the aperture is a 16 blade perfect circle at all apertures. Covers full frame without vignetting (originally a medium format lens). Apart from slight low contrast this takes stills little worse than many lenses 80 yrs it junior.. zeisstessar12cm.html
Zeiss Ikon 2x anamorphic lens Anamorphot III MC, cinemascope version. length: 170mm. weight: approx. 1.6kg. Test footage opposite taken on 7D and 550D -vignettes under 80mm taking lens.		Tracking anamorphic test from 93 Million Miles on Vimeo. Anamorphic test - short sequence from 93 Million Miles on Vimeo.
Panasonic LA-7200 Anamorphic adapter (see hire pages)		see youtube: Panasonic LA-7200 Anamorphic adapter

	The Hammer Cookes (OK, they've seen better, Dracula for one.. and the GH1 adapter was slightly missaligned durring the (bookcase) experiment.. but watch this space) The out-of-focus-halo is generally gone when stopping down a stop or so.	Cooke speed Panchro 1" (24mm) f2 (sn 303131)
Cooke speed Panchro 35mm f2 (sn 303336) slightly overexposed..		Cooke speed Panchro 40mm f2 ELC in m43 mount
Cooke speed Panchro Series II 50mm f2 (sn 525681)		50mm out of focus rendition (compare to the Jupiter 8 below?)
Cooke speed Panchro Series II 75mm f2 sn 564903), one of the radioactive ones?.. now somewhat orange glass...		Cooke deep field Panchro 100mm f2.5 (sn 302649)
Cooke_speed_Panchro_SeriesII-75mm f2 (uncorrected for glass colour)		Cooke_speed_Panchro_SeriesII-75mm f2
Jupiter 8 (Biotar copy) 50mm f2		an out of focus Jupiter 8.. ok this was a pretty bad comparison!
GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2 or continuing the dracula theme: GH1-Cooke35mm		GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2
GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2 / #2		GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2
GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2		GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2

GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2		GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2 / #2
GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2 / #2		GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2 / #2 / #3 / #4
GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2 / #2 / #3 /		GH1-Cooke35mm @ f2 / #2 / #3 /
GH1-Cooke50mm series II @ f3.5 bokeh (focused in front of table)		GH1-Cooke50mm series II @ f3.5 (no hood/plus flare)
GH1-Cooke Speed Panchro 25mm @ f5.6 / 400asa (10k original)		(10k original)
GH1-Cooke Speed Panchro 25mm @ f5.6 / 400asa		(10k original) after 40 years , Hammer's lenses on the ghouls and zombies @ Bray Studios...!
Pelang 8mm f3.5		Pelang 8mm f3.5 (1920x1080)
Foth (Derby) Anastigmat f3.5 50mm c1934.uncoated		Lens originally fitted to a Foth Derby, taking 30mmx40mm negs on 127 film. Unfortunatly, mounted on a full frame SLR the lens fouls the mirror for anything over 3ft.. so here it is on M43 where it's edge of frame distortion is not really apparent. more photos here 50mm f3.5@f3.5 ---------------------------- Foth 50mm @ f9
Canon SD (Demi-C) 50mm		Canon SD lenses for the Demi-C, (there are only two, 28mm and 50mm/f2.8). Not an easy lens to remount without modifying the lens, and being bit of a collectors item* you wouldn't want to. There is no iris, so it's wide open all the time, but why would you want it to look like any other lens... it (50mm) is certainly in a class of it's own and nothing like the fixed ½ frame lenses that probably gave the system it's good reputation... very sharp centre, but loses the plot before the edge of ½ frame or APSC. Either a +5 or a -5 on the personality scale depending on your pov. Of interest, the lens sports one of the largest entry lens and smallest exit pupil on a 50mm f2.8... With a minimum focus distance of 4ft I was tempted to mount this on a bellows, but it looks at home on the NEX without making a joke of it. * less than perfect ones change hands for £10-£20 in 2011 (e-bay)
135mm Orestor with PL mount		This perhaps shouldn't be on the list, but it looks cool... 135mm f2.8 Pentacon... the one that wouldn't flare...
see also micro 4/3rds/GH1 page &, SR2 Hire

last updated:20 Mar 2012

Lenses with personality

Panasonic LA-7200 Anamorphic adapter (see hire pages)

Panasonic LA-7200 Anamorphic adapter