[Konvas] and the winner is......? (Barry Lyndon)

[H. W. Stone]

 Back in the WW2 era there were lenses made to photograph fluoroscope images, generally around f0.87 wide open.

The came in different focal lengths, and usually had an iris for two or three stops, but they were fun to play with.? You need a bellows to focus them since they were set up as fixed focus on the machines, and generally covered a negative sized either 3x4 inch or 6x9cm, depending on manufacturer.? You can still find them on old equipment, but a "three inch" f0.87 wide open at about six feet had a DOF of about two and a half or three inches.? Since they were intended to shoot a flat surface the size of the image being photographed compared to the focus arc was the key point. ? I had a 2 inch, a 3 inch, a 5 inch, and one unmarked but "appeared to be" about seven or eight inch lens.? 

They went with the Arri IIa when I sold it.

Faster film cures the longing for high speed lenses!



 


 

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From: Adam Frey <thefirstrule at chainsawlinux.com>










Back to Barry Lyndon (and to bring it back to Soviet made gear), I saw a 
documentary a while back that talked about Kubrick getting hold of some 
super fast Zeiss lenses that were used by NASA (just looked it up and 
read they were 50mm, f/0.7).?
?

I bet they had more than just a few issues when using them. I mean, 
shooting interiors at f/0.7, the shallow Depth of Field would be a 
nightmare to work with. They would have had to make many concessions, 
and if nothing else, it would have to have been extremely hard to work with.?
?

What's the fastest lens you've worked with? And how many issues did you 
have with it all the way open??
?

And speaking of which, does anyone know the fastest glass made by the 
LOMO factory? I'm assuming that LOMO and/or other Soviet lens 
manufacturers were making glass for the space race as well...?
?


Cheers,?
?

Adam Frey? 



 

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