New This Week: An Angenieux 25-250mm T3.9 zoom lens in Arriflex Standard mount with the bracketry for a J4 zoom motor. I may have to pull a J4 out of my parts inventory and fit it to this lens. https://bit.ly/3qCzlg7
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New to the site this week are a variety of prime lenses from brands like Kinoptik, Cooke, Bausch & Lomb, and Astro Berlin. More lenses to come!
New for the week of 1/11/22 Read More »
As with all of the wonderful things we offer, we try to include as much of their history as we can discover. We have run into a roadblock on researching the history of the Kinoptik lenses we recently added to our website. We have found very little information about the company itself, its founders, and
Searching for a History of Kinoptik Read More »
Freshly added to CinemaGear.com this week, we have a collection of Schneider Cine Xenon lenses, all available with an Arriflex Standard mount. These lenses have been cleaned, lubricated, and collimated, and are all in used condition.
New for the Week of October 12, 2021 Read More »
Earlier this week, three classic CinemaScope lenses came into our inventory. Sadly, they are here because of the death of my friend John Hora. John was a veteran cinematographer of countless national television commercials and many feature films and television shows. I met John while I was working with John Russell at JAR Enterprises some
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In 2015 we did a few conversions on Lomo Anamorphic zoom lenses. While we don’t offer that service any longer, I thought the presentation that was made for our clients was interesting enough to share.
The Resurrection of a Lomo Anamorphic Zoom Lens Read More »
Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson, makers of the famed Cooke lenses, was founded in 1886 in Leicester, England by brothers William and Thomas Taylor. The company originally produced optical instruments and did not begin making photographic lenses until 1894. Dennis Taylor (no relation to the Taylor brothers), optical manager of the York-based astronomical telescope maker T.
Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Cooke Speed Panchro Lenses Read More »
Now that we are finally settled in our new home, we seem to have an extraordinary amount of time on our hands as a result of the current health crisis. We have been using this time to go through the many boxes of lenses that we have brought into inventory and not yet had time
Collection of Bausch & Lomb Baltar Lenses Read More »
As we continue to find treasures that have been buried in our inventory for decades, we came across these two very interesting and unusual Zeiss Tessar lenses. The Zeiss Tessar was designed by Paul Randolph in 1902 for the Carl Zeiss company. The Tessar was innovative in its design that included four elements in three
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Believe it or not, there are still things to be unpacked a year after being settled into our new facility. I have been going through box after box of rare and unusual lenses over the last few weeks, cleaning and repairing them as I go. To my amazement, I came across this Astro-Gesellschaft Berlin 150mm
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