Video Lenses for Macro photography
Reading John Shaws books, I got the idea of using movie camera lenses
for macro photography, and bought a number of them to play around with
as follows:
- 37mm f/2.7 Elgeet for 8mm.
- 37mm f/1.4 Votar for 8mm.
- 75mm f/4.0 Wollensak 16mm lens (nice 3 inch tele raptar)
- 25mm f/1.5 Wollensak 16mm lens (ratty 1 inch cine-velostigmat)
- 25mm f/1.9 Elgeet 16mm lens (nice).
- 13mm f/1.9 Elgeet - weird thing with attached meter.
bought with 16mm movie camera, but small threads.
- 37mm f/1.4 Votar for 8mm.
- 25mm f/2.7 Animar Bausch and Lomb
It turns out that some of these (with a nominal thread diameter of 1 inch)
are in fact C mount lenses. Even though this is an ancient standard, lots
of CCTV equipment and CCD video cameras still use the C mount thread. This
hasn't helped me yet, but gave hope that I might find adapters to put a
C mount lens onto my digital camera or belows without having to do machine
shop work myself.
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