Recent content by Ilya O.

Hey dear Admins Why Google short links to a tons of images I posted are all off, not displaying? If I just copy paste the short link into the browser, all works. Plz help, it would be a nightmare to replace all the g short link into original long strong form...

Newly manufactured front cylinder for 35mm LOMO Squarefront Anamorphic lens. For SALE!!! It goes for 2300usd. Plz think fast, limited quantity of ~20pcs. Use it as a flawless replacement for your scratched and chiped old one. This one boasts native single layer coating of two colors: blue...

Greets, mates. Clients ask me regularly if I have a LOMO 35BAS10-x spare front glass (which crack often at edge). I do not. That's a problem nowadays when Lomo Anamorphics are way too pricey to source out just to replace front glass... That led me to simple thought: we guys can make a group...

Greets, mates. Clients ask me regularly if I have a LOMO 35BAS10-x spare front glass (which crack often at edge). I do not. That's a problem nowadays when Lomo Anamorphics are way too pricey to source out just to replace front glass... That led me to simple thought: we guys can make a group...

Hi, fellas Can anyone shed some light at the LOMO 35OPF18-1 20-120mm f2.5 zoom coverage on Red? 5K okay? And as for Arri open gate? Andy White once said "Portholes in 5K up to 70mm - so only usable in full zoom range at 4K"? Any more experience? Portholes in 5K up to 70mm - so only usable in...

Here I'd share some nice papers on various USSR-made Anamorphics. ЦКБК — is CKBK (CKB MK in 1960-s, or НПО "ЭКРАН" EKRAN in 1990-s, or Optica Elite now), or Central Design Bureau of Cinematography, in St. Petersburg, made pre-series prototype batches of several samples before they give all the...

Following Cristina's thread title, let's put here all 70mm / 65mm (52.5 x 23mm frame size) lenses info. Plz participate, guys, big sensors are at the gates let's make the database here. I start with Zeiss 60x60 still glass for Hasselblad medium format reflex mirror camera, mid-late 1950-s...

Greets all. Searching for these USSR lenses in top shape: 1. Lomo standards: OKS1-50-6 50mm f2 and OKS6-75-1 75mm f2 in Kinor housings. Like pictured here: https://retrotexnika.ru/img/optika/komplekt_obektivov_OKS_18_22_28_35_50_75_100_lomo_2-min.jpg 2. Lomo or Ekran wide SuperSpeeds...

Photo and cine lens sample variation is reality. And there's even more copy-to-copy variation if we look at vintage or used / serviced lenses. More so with any zooms. The second part of the bitter truth is that nearly every real-world lens (especially those after service) is facing...

Daniel Klockenkemper asked any info on the subject lens: "I ... thought you might be able to help with some information on a similar uncommon Russian lens that I have. It is model 35OPF8-1, 20-120mm 1:3.5 (T4.3). It has serial number 720001...I cannot find any information about it on the...

FOR SALE ITEM and LOCATION 70OPF5-1 f/4.5-5.0 #740001 large format 65/70mm film zoom (52x23mm gate). Unique pre-series prototype made in 1974 by CKBK (Central Design Bureau of Cinematography, St. Petersburg, USSR). A lens that appears for sale once in a lifetime. Located in Moscow, Russia. This...

Sometimes you can hear that any 50mm lens is Planar nowadays. Zeiss papers on Planar 1.4/50 promote it is as "the most successful lens design ever conceived. This lens type is the basis of almost all professional "workhorse" lenses on earth – and in space." Is that really so? Are all...

A little vintage cine 50mm lens comparison, OKS vs Cooke. Oks1-50-1 vs Cooke Speed Panchro vs Cooke SP Ser.II Here is the lens schemes/diagrams and main optical characteristic taken from the NIKFI Catalogue of 1968 for pure lens nerds: Cooke Speed Panchros first version look like this...

Marcian Lazar asked me about the difference between LOMO oks1-150-1 and oks9-150-1 lenses. oks9-150-1 is s16mm lens, and only a few people know it, and no seller describes that, knowing s35 would sell better aha a haha h Still as always the devil is in the details. Lets's check the grafs and...

The original Baltars of Bausch and Lomb lineup was 25-28-32-40-50-75-100-152 (f-stop varied 1:2.3 to 1:2.7). It was made to compete with COOKE's first Panchros, but actually never succeeded:-) (That means they had more focus falloff which is nice for portraiture). They decided to take a...