Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)
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...
Hello everyone. It's vintage Cooke time now.
Dan Kanes wrote me:
"Dear Ilya,
...
Mainly I would love to see the Optical diagram of each Panchro!
In particular I never knew the series 2 wides used aspheres at all!
..."
Dan was asking info one can find in this very cool book by Taylor & Hobson...
I've being reading RU since maybe 2007 and simply love it. I learned a lot from you guys and very thankful for that.
Now I join RU to share my experience and knowledge of Russian photo- and cine glass.
I start with M39 (reflex mirror) and M42 Zenit SLR photo lenses.
Full frame 35mm film...