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on Feb 6, 2022 0:44:35 GMT
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This UK company's catalog isn't Yashica related, but it does have some 35mm still gear interlaced with a mountain of goodies for 35mm/70mm motion picture use. Since this is a rental catalog, it only has pricing codes -but- the breadth of high-end gear is amazing for those who are interested in it. It includes Panavision camera systems, boom trucks, and lots of complex location gear, like dolly, crane, and track systems. www.samuelsonfilmservice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Catalogue-1975-Selected-Pages.pdf |
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on Feb 6, 2022 14:17:57 GMT
Posted: Feb 6, 2022 14:17:57 GMT
This UK company's catalog isn't Yashica related, but it does have some 35mm still gear interlaced with a mountain of goodies for 35mm/70mm motion picture use. Since this is a rental catalog, it only has pricing codes -but- the breadth of high-end gear is amazing for those who are interested in it. It includes Panavision camera systems, boom trucks, and lots of complex location gear, like dolly, crane, and track systems. www.samuelsonfilmservice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Catalogue-1975-Selected-Pages.pdfThanks for this fascinating catalogue. My favourite inclusion is the Petri 100mm Periscope lens; it's one of the few pieces of glass on my bucket list. I missed one on Ebay about 3 years ago and haven't seen one since... Deeply frustrating but interesting to note that there's an outside chance one or two made it over to Great Britain. Fingers remain tightly crossed... |
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on Feb 6, 2022 23:52:34 GMT
Posted: Feb 6, 2022 23:52:34 GMT
My favourite inclusion is the Petri 100mm Periscope lens; it's one of the few pieces of glass on my bucket list. I missed one on Ebay about 3 years ago and haven't seen one since... Deeply frustrating but interesting to note that there's an outside chance one or two made it over to Great Britain. Fingers remain tightly crossed... Okay... this has just became downright spooky! The reason I came across this particular catalog was my interest in finding some more details on that very item - or I should say, the Spiratone branded version of the periscope lens. That alone isn't the spooky part... I just won an auction a couple of weeks ago for a 100mm f/4 Spiratone model that included the gimbal mount for the barrel tube. It allows the lens to be mounted through a platform or roof or floor (etc) in a semi permanent position for rotation and pivoting on 2 pins for limited travel around their axis. I'll try to post a few pics once i get something set up to hold everything in place for taking photos. |
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on Feb 7, 2022 14:54:57 GMT
Posted: Feb 7, 2022 14:54:57 GMT
My favourite inclusion is the Petri 100mm Periscope lens; it's one of the few pieces of glass on my bucket list. I missed one on Ebay about 3 years ago and haven't seen one since... Deeply frustrating but interesting to note that there's an outside chance one or two made it over to Great Britain. Fingers remain tightly crossed... Okay... this has just became downright spooky! The reason I came across this particular catalog was my interest in finding some more details on that very item - or I should say, the Spiratone branded version of the periscope lens. That alone isn't the spooky part... I just won an auction a couple of weeks ago for a 100mm f/4 Spiratone model that included the gimbal mount for the barrel tube. It allows the lens to be mounted through a platform or roof or floor (etc) in a semi permanent position for rotation and pivoting on 2 pins for limited travel around their axis. I'll try to post a few pics once i get something set up to hold everything in place for taking photos. Thanks - I'd be fascinated to see your pics. It is/they are fascinating bits of glass; I was unaware of the Spiratone version but saw the periscope lens in a manual for one of the Petri M42 cameras. It seems an unusual thing to manufacture but there must have been a demand for them. |
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on Feb 7, 2022 18:47:25 GMT
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Until I get some of my own, I can pass on a link to the seller's lens pics and data from it's Worthpoint listing. I also found an earlier auction listing that claimed they were created "... so that photographers could shoot above the crowds during the US Bicentennial celebrations". That year was 1975, but I highly doubt that's accurate. The following is a Spratone catalog sheet with a publishing date of 1968, and the periscope is clearly illustrated, so the likelihood that someone was inventing specialty lenses for 7 years into the future seems to be nonsense.  |
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on Feb 7, 2022 19:16:54 GMT
Posted: Feb 7, 2022 19:16:54 GMT
Hi lumiworx , Thank you for the Spiratone page. Very interesting; I also had no knowledge of the 100mm Portragon soft focus portrait lens and I see several being offered on Ebay in the USA. That being said, I suspect they are similar in operation to the later Kenko lens which simply applies a softening across the entire image unlike some of the more sophisticated (and expensive!) options. But if you are just after an overall softening, that Portragon would seem to be a very cost-effective choice. |
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