I took a 35mm cinema lens and re-housed it in the body of an old 50mm lens from a 16mm projector. it works great, sharp, bright and fills a 14 foot screen at about 20 feet. There are lots of cinema lenses on ebay and on the market.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:05 PM Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Eiki lenses are 42.5mm standard. You can sleeve an Elmo lens to fit > an Eiki but you can't make 52.5mm lenses fit. > > Lenses for Bauer, Philips, Kinoton Siemens, and Meopta projectors will > fit an Eiki. > > ICE in Florida had a bunch of 35-65mm Isco Kiptaron zooms that they were > selling on ebay for around $150 each, and that is a pretty sharp lens in > that mount. Certainly sharper than any of the vintage lenses. You could > call and ask if they still had any in stock. 35mm is not super short > throw, but it's about as short as you can get and still keep good edge > sharpness and it's dirt cheap compared with a new prime lens. > --scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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