As a change of pace between other projects, I have been taking a look at the various Bell & Howell Eymax lenses I acquired several years back as part of a lot purchase. I don’t know much of anything about these lenses, but all of the ones I have in stock are in Bell & […]
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In 1950, French lens maker Angenieux introduced the revolutionary 35mm R1 Retrofocus lens. The retrofocus optical design made it possible to use lenses wider than 40mm on reflex film cameras. This new design made the flange focal distance similar between wide angle lenses and telephoto lenses, ushering in a new era of interchangeable lenses of
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We are excited to offer these excellent Kinoptik Apochromat 75mm and 50mm f2 lenses, both in Eclair CM3 mount. Here at CinemaGear, we love to share a little bit of history along with the filmmaking equipment we offer, but much of the history of Kinoptik remains an enigma to us. Kinoptik was a boutique French
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New arrival! An Angenieux 25-250mm zoom lens in ARRI B mount with an original ARRI lens support for an ARRI 2B or 2C. This is not up on our website yet, but we wanted to share a quick look at this lens. Check it out!
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Recently, my friend Chris Endicott dropped off this large collection of classic lenses belonging to the late, great Dave Allen for me to clean and restore. For those few of you who may not know of David Allen, he was an amazing stop motion animator, visual effects pioneer, writer, director, and producer. Dave was working
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I am still hard at work on the ShowScan CP65 cameras, and if you aren’t too bored with that, I will show you more details next week. In the meantime, this wonderful collection of lenses, including an amazing trio of Kowa Cine Prominars, found its way to my shop this week. The collection also includes
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Newly arrived are some very interesting modern anamorphic lenses, most with PL mounts. We have two cine anamorphic lenses manufactured by Vazen with a 1.8x anamorphic squeeze: a 40mm T2 featuring an E mount and a 65mm T2 featuring a PL mount (a PL to E mt adapter is also included). According to factory specs,
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In the midst of having the building painted this week, I was able to finish up work on and photograph the Super Baltar lenses I posted about earlier this month. There are now three sets of these much sought after vintage cinema lenses available for sale on cinemagear.com. Two of the sets contain the 20mm,
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As I mentioned previously, I have been working on cleaning up some Super Baltar lenses in between other jobs. This week was dedicated to servicing, lubricating, and collimating 2 of the 3 sets of Super Baltar lenses I will have available soon. When Bausch & Lomb introduced the Super Baltar series of lenses in 1960,
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While doing a final test run of the ARRI 35 BL2, I discovered that the feed side clutch on one of the 1000’ magazines was jammed. Fortunately, I had replacement clutch pads in my collection of parts, so the magazine had to come apart, the surfaces of the clutch mechanism had to be thoroughly cleaned,
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