tony wilson
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itsa whatta yer calling delaminations innit
itsa what yer happenin when you droppa der ananorfink lens when yer usin a cheaps campa clampa
it drops or knocks der metal reverbs true der tubei housing init
it sens shocka wave inder glasses matrix a delaminating occurins in der complex cemented doublets init
it impact seperation damages from poor owner abusings
slapping banging opticals violent likes init
like harvey weistein knockin on yer hotel doors at night creatin waves of tesla ocillations vibrations
it looks bad doctor bones maybe terminulls
ask for a refunds quick likes
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i once shipped a box of iscorama parts a rare zeiss baby focus iscorama the first ever iscorama and 2 baby moller 1.5 optics to super 16
5 optics all the metalwork mixed up the glass protected it had been sitting on a shelf for 2 years at one of the demon money grabber repair places.
i stuffed a note for bernie that simply said sorry about this can you see if you can rebuild parts maybe missing 2 weeks later an email saying ready for shipping
no moaning no huffing and puffing he just did the best he could
i wish i had yaken a picture of that dustry old pile of germanic junk before the bern and after.
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do not give it 2 van demon the logo speaks for vandiemen
a little forked devil check it out a devil with a big smile
the greatest company in the world for lens works is truelens uk same town as cooke expensive in the movie lens world repair biz you have panavision la then true lens
then p&s technique germany slow and van demonics slower uk
truelens has many folks that have worked at cooke so that small town has some mighty talented lens repair guys probably the lead in the water.
repairing rehousing spherical and anamorphics
i was the clown that first used that company with the devil logo they solved some problems on an iscorama rebuild project that i started.
they then started offering an iscorama rehouse before even finishing my prototypes.
very dubious i could say more but i will not
bernie o is a great man the problem is in bernies day he could leave a lens soaking for months today the pressure is on turn around .
the old cooke speed panchro from ww2 often got seized up in the brass housings sometimes the raf would paint the metal again causing problems years later.
sometimes you would have too put the lens aside and go back try again weeks later.
bernie is indeed an old gent i am sure it was frustrating for him as hans says if it is know open and you feel he owes you a favour email him.
john at focal point lens repair is another great old geezer based in the usa east coast like bernie also maybe able too repair optics i have done jobs using bernie and focal point working on the same lens in the past.
focal point is great with optical decay bernie breakdown service rebuild..
failing that an iscorama is still worth good money for spare parts no matter what the condition optics and mechanical.
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if you have to ask the question you should
get a kowa 8z or an iscorama
movie optics where mede in sets the historical and filmaking value is in the set
complex assemblies need old men to repair or improve just because google is shit with a lack of information means nothing.
just means some hipster blogger has played with some old beat up lens and he says that it was not good.
rushed past engineering bad past repair or patch up can be sorted today
jan jacobson did not mess about if he was around today he would be working with christopher nolan
the later arriscope used similar designs to the earlier ultrascope but with more help from zeiss and isco
without testing the optic who knows what it is worth is it pl,bncr arri bayonet some russian mount does the optic have chips rainbow compression
the focus helicoid may be good now for gentle landscape work but not for aggresive movie use but will never be great without a big expensive rebuild
that is why the rental companies buy them up cos they can throw big money at a modern rebuild.
if these things are turds why have vantage hawk spent a million dollars reverse engineering back in all the bloody past optical error
the past stuff is good cos those old farts cared and did not cut costs it cost whatever it cost they tried to out do each other they where proud
today it is all idea theft and trading on the past and undercutting
if the optic is local test an iscorama test a kowa then go and test the 3.5 kg heavy beast arri arm flex
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arriscope are movie lens
iscorama is not
arriflex and zeiss where pretty crap at anamorphics for years zeiss used moller for making anamorphic projection optics
arrii used a famous super talented designer from denmark jan jacobson for ultrascope system using fast zeiss optics ultrascope where designed as movie optics
later arri used a couple of folks from zeiss and isco for the arriscope
arri is a massive rental house and maker of millions of metal parts plus thousands of cameras they had to work faster than say leica or zeiss.
a movie might be starting in 6 months 10 months sometimes 3 months
so they had to cut corners because of time issues
isco understand bent glass many issues where engineering related
but like the todays crummy iomo systems modern rebuilds can transform everything
the arri isco glass is designed movie glass vintage used on many cinema releases
iscorama maybe amazing and unmatched even today in the sub 10 thousand dollar realm but is was never designed as a proper movie lens.
it was used on movies like the battle of britain for crash cams and aerial work but kowa 8z was used on crash cameras on many movies in the 1980s even movies like rambo where he takes on the russians. better blowing up a kowa than a panavision,jdc or technovision 40 thousand dollar optic.
iscorama was not used or improved for movie productions because the movie industry is a tight nit thing probably isco did not think to bribe the correct rabbi in hollyweird at this stage panavision dominated
arriscope ultascope have expensive 1.4 or 1.7 movie optics inside which are worth money alone.
you could use a proskar on a movie today it would not make it a movie lens.
iscorama is such an abused term now every turd is iscorama
vintage anamorphics suffer from imperfect engineering assemblies and even more so, bad strip down and reassembly over the years
arri isco and zeiss the weak link will be arri engineering instead of leaving that to moller or isco arri built assembled themselves.
arri camera engineering is superb but you cannot rush without losing something
as i said arri had very little experience in anamorphot area even though they made test lens with zeiss isco in the 1950s always sub contract
arriscope is rare ish as is ultrascope
isco getting a little with all the hipsters dropping them on the floor
some of the arriscope ended up in india then faded away rarely rebuilt the glass is good that is what matters.
a man wanting an easy life will look for an iscorama or the cheaper options
a man with spunk will grab some movie arri optics
the new zeiss anamorphics are probably the bigeest leap forward in design since chretien as close to state of the art as it gets today
vantage hawk are hiring out sets of fake vintage optics which is the opposite of what zeiss is doing hawk are building in the error from the past and charging serious big bucks for a rental
zeiss
arriscope is worth a lot more than iscorama
i would think a little finger for iscorama
a kidney for the arri
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heliopan germany make the best step rings in the world.
made of machined brass expensive but military spec i have some that i purchased in the 1980s still doing the job.
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so many clamps
and sellers
so much choice
such quality
the engineering
if they all look the same too ones eye
open or wide shut
go with what tweak says
he nose
you knows
ya know
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mr kish also worked on the famous optex and century anamorphics.
he worked direct with many of the la newyork rental houses his stuff was always very strong it had to be usuable and take abuse from those hollywood knuckle dragging rough brutes of the camera dept.
rapido clamp technology that sounds like a revolution that guy deserves an oscar
or maybe a high court writ for ideas theft : )
the original mesmerizer has seriously nice coatings and is a great balance of technology one foot in the modern the other in vintage.
analogue look distortion well under control.
isco 54 will be similar recipe with added bonus of single focus ability the coatings are very modern so a little bit more of a sterile look
a good isco 54 will destroy all the new generation anamorphics below 10 thousand dollars it is a bargain.
the inflights from kowa and isco should be very high value as they where the best of the best plenty of rejection the inflight company also kept plenty of back up stock as sometimes they needed to rip out whole projection systems out of the plane quickly and replace in short time span.
clamp based orientation issues have been solved long time ago today it is mainly human error or cheap poor mounting solutions.
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mesmerizer off the scale good a very large beast.
mr kish who designed it was a very clever optics man i think he realised early on why try to beat an old isco design.
so he built his monster around early isco 54 and the very large isco inflights which would have been had for cheap from the retirement of the inflight film projection systems on dc9 and boeing 707.
it is a great optic it is really a rehoused isco inflight or isco 54 without the 2 extra focus optics that have been copied so much in the last few years.
work out your focus zone range dial onto mesmirizers scale critical focus on taking lens.
the original design was mainly for tv show dream sequence commercials and many music videos of the 80s and 90s.
sold to many big camera rental houses great for the warped bent anamorph spin effect or you can lock the rotaion down and use as a very fine quality anamorphic optic.
i had a few one was 1.75 the other 2x one more modern coatings the other golden early 70s coatings.
the one i still have looks like it uses the original isco focus helicoid system just put into a nice big metal jacket.
because of the beyond heavy duty quality of the exterior jacket and the rental house buyers i would imagine this would of been a 8- 10 thousand dollar optic back in the day
if it had the isco patented 2 extra focus optics making it single focus it would be going out on rental every day for big bucks.
as it is now stiill very usable
slightly radioactive as is a lot of the magic vintage oldtimer glass
- Ian Edward Weir and Flynn
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sir you are wrong in many things and certainly in these regardings
i assure you barry was born in kenya his first job was in a cia front company.
i woked for many years at the bbc and have seen much proofs.
his family where mi5 tavistock trained his mother ann later worked for the cia under Richard M. Helm then later VADM Rufus Lackland Taylor, USN.
drone killer prez barry soetoro, wife was not a transgender as it is still a man just like the tennis playing venus williams brothers.
as you are a man of tastes and optical refinements you canna getta betta than a moller 1.5
it really is the bong daddy o
yes it is bent glass but in a goodly way
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bioskop is one of the most helpful and friendly posters on this site.
full of good solid information.
if this german seller is so good and friendly and the price for this fixed focus masterpiece worth it why does mr racer not simply buy the lot?
instead of promotional activities via linkage
i have some of these mr racer it is worth 600 -700 tops you can have mine for 800 since you like a bargain
but i suppose if you purchased mine you would then have 4 to sell from germany.
they are nice yes sir and good not reaally rare rare i had 4 once upon a time
mr bioskop is correct in these pricing matters and regardings here
hare here
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one of the links above that was given as proof of cheap perfect optics was a kowa with optical damage.
just because someone says a rainbow like bloom across the optic has zero effect does not mean it is true.
repairing seperation is either possible or not but it will be expensive.
an optically mint condition kowa should be worth more than an slr magic as the kowa is superior to 1.33 or the new 2x.
the kowa is a great optic one in mint condition fully tested should be valued higher than some vague ad giving false information about condition.
the massive amount of bell howells floating around dual focus issues has damaged the market for kowa.
optically panasonic,slr magic,optex and century are all inferior optically and analogue esthetically.
400-500 euros for a guaranteed optic hollywood quality seems ok to me.
- Francisco Rios and woopax
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Is this kowa
In: Cameras
it will work on a 5d you just end up with longer taking lens
these lens will be handy in the future as the cameras get smaller like the a7s
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Is this kowa
In: Cameras
it was a single focus system for that super sharp iscomorphot lens another one of my old failed projects.
not good for 5d sensors but 7d down it was sweet.
that optic is better kept safe in the future who knows people might like the idea of something fairly modern and
small like the animex that can do proper focus
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Is this kowa
In: Cameras
it was made by sankor
it is a 16d
kowa was better than sankor
sankor is still good
the smaller 16f and 16c are nice as well
kowa stuff should cost more money than sankor today
as it was in the film super 8 days
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Nice to see the big man back here. where you been Stanley?
been in jail i got into a dispute with a guy on here a budha called burnett rocky roads who seemed to think the slr magic was better than a panavision c.
i eneded up shattering his wanna be leica china optics over his fat head a kaleidoscopic mosaic of milk bottle optics.the destruction seemed to improve the look i think.
the judge gave me a light setence after i showed him some youtube clips of the offending slr magic broke back flarings : )
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all of these are variations of an isco theme.
unless one notices a patent pending logo that is.
nothing new under the sun. this isco jacket sure looks nice very nice.
john the recipe i gave you was from one of my destroyed iscoramas i cannot see why you mentioned me here mentioning a private email.
not good no sir.
anyway you are a mod staff here so i am sure you know and understand the ethics and rules better than me. whoever this guy is he looks like he done a sweet job yes sir and i bet it will be a good price yes sir.
i am not an engineer but i sure likes pretty looking metal
- richg101 and Cosimo murgolo
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take your time and try to find a sankor 16c or sankor 16f or a kowa prominar 16s all small and nice optics.
try to buy at auction on ebay rather than buy it now if you are on a tight budget.
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i got one +0.35 82mm single element diopter
i got 82mm +1 achromatic diopter
i got 82mm +0.25 achromatic diopter
i got 77mm + 0.65 achromatic diopter
i got 72mm +0,4 and +0.5 achromatic and single element diopter
shame your in california usps sucks
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This forum is better than the telly.
Just bought an iscorama. (No disrespect to slr magic.)
For sale My SLR magic anamorphot with diopters, 950 euros plus transport, location paris, europe
procter nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
you cannot sell this
this is vision
this is the future
how can you sell out
your vision
and your future.
by selling this treasured slr magic thingy
you betray the light benders of today
AND OF THE FUTURE
shame on you ;)
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stonecold why the tough words you do not need them upload a clip.
i see you have made a new old friend with rocky roads sean 2 texan cowboyz how nice.
you should adopt obarmy allows transgender cowboys to adopt and some new kids just been stolen from ukraine.
make a broke back anamorphot video darling.
i look forward to you burying me faggot : )
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stonecold
you do it numbnuts shoot something amazin
a test perhaps.
blow us all away cowboy.
watch out for that broke back flare tex they are pig ugly.
my point is simple if you are making a movie and have funding why go this route it brings nothing does not add only takes away.
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sean cun
what are you.
you build up something like this thing like it is the second coming and you produce bilge complete and utter visual bilge.
did you destroy all comers no.
you counter attack with words to try to diminish cos your bland visual style is made for this rather cheap optic.
keep the words cumin fella and leave the visuals to seb : )
i only came back here to give you a slap girly cos you are really quite horrid to people.
and you lecture folks based on years of using an optex century.
get back to your film set big boy leave the amateurs to polish nice proper glass.
or should i say film studio tour of a film set.
Bolex 16/32/1.5x - Performing Maintenance or sending in for maintenance
In: Cameras
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bernie is a great man and a fine old school movie film camera and lens repair guy.
he has rebuilt more bolex moller than anyone alive today more than 6 just from me.
he is quicker than all the big companies around the bolex moller is treasure the grease needs replacing and he can tune up the x y alignment.
what can delay things is sometimes retention lock screws can get seized up so they need to be worked loose over time.
sending something like moller to a regular repair guy is a sick idea .
some of my lens i had where owner damage or attempted repair 3 where in pieces all where rebuilt in less than a month from scrap bits and bobs to lovely usable condition.
bernie and his wife can answer any of your questions by email or telephone