Old lens pricing

Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
"Paul Furman" wrote
An apo doublet in aluminum tube. An odd third party non-[telephoto] design,
so it's long and awkward.

Saying almost, though not absolutely, nothing...

Cannon close-up lens mounted in a shower-curtain rail?

Novoflex follow-focus? Leitz Telyt? Keiv/Zenit something-or-other
in a rifle stock? TeleVue?

Hack job: Williams, Mamiya APO, Edmunds in a Follow-Focus tube?
A Perkin Elmer that fell off the back of an SR-70?

APO Rodagon in a Novoflex? Wait, that's not a doublet...

None of the above.

What's the URL. Tell us - _We_ want to know. And _We_ have ways.
Ways that make waterboarding into a playground prank.
We start with The Comfy Chair. Speaking of chairs
-- anyone seen the first episode of "Wire in the Blood"?

I'll say when we've agreed on a price or I pass on it.

Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
"Paul Furman" wrote
An apo doublet in aluminum tube. An odd third party non-[telephoto] design,
so it's long and awkward.

Saying almost, though not absolutely, nothing...

What I read, basically said it's a simple lens with a "well corrected
apo doublet". They are long, fast & supposed to be quite sharp with a
16-blade aperture for da bokeh.

"Paul Furman" wrote in message
et...
Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
"Paul Furman" wrote
An apo doublet in aluminum tube. An odd third party non-[telephoto]
design, so it's long and awkward.

Saying almost, though not absolutely, nothing...

Cannon close-up lens mounted in a shower-curtain rail?

Novoflex follow-focus? Leitz Telyt? Keiv/Zenit something-or-other
in a rifle stock? TeleVue?

Hack job: Williams, Mamiya APO, Edmunds in a Follow-Focus tube?
A Perkin Elmer that fell off the back of an SR-70?

APO Rodagon in a Novoflex? Wait, that's not a doublet...

None of the above.

What's the URL. Tell us - _We_ want to know. And _We_ have ways.
Ways that make waterboarding into a playground prank.
We start with The Comfy Chair. Speaking of chairs
-- anyone seen the first episode of "Wire in the Blood"?

I'll say when we've agreed on a price or I pass on it.
I may tell you what I think about it (not that my opinion is very
definitive) after you have bought. If I want to that is.

Jim

Jim wrote:
"Paul Furman" wrote in message
et...
Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
"Paul Furman" wrote
An apo doublet in aluminum tube. An odd third party non-[telephoto]
design, so it's long and awkward.
Saying almost, though not absolutely, nothing...

Cannon close-up lens mounted in a shower-curtain rail?

Novoflex follow-focus? Leitz Telyt? Keiv/Zenit something-or-other
in a rifle stock? TeleVue?

Hack job: Williams, Mamiya APO, Edmunds in a Follow-Focus tube?
A Perkin Elmer that fell off the back of an SR-70?

APO Rodagon in a Novoflex? Wait, that's not a doublet...
None of the above.

What's the URL. Tell us - _We_ want to know. And _We_ have ways.
Ways that make waterboarding into a playground prank.
We start with The Comfy Chair. Speaking of chairs
-- anyone seen the first episode of "Wire in the Blood"?

I'll say when we've agreed on a price or I pass on it.

I may tell you what I think about it (not that my opinion is very
definitive) after you have bought. If I want to that is.

Just arrived today, it's a Century Precision Optics, Hollywood,
Tele-athenar 500mm f/4.5.

19" long plus a 4" shade, 110mm thread, the tripod mount is a long bar
with two rings holding the lens and it came with a huge tripod: Bogen
3050 with 3047 pan/tilt/crank head, 27 lbs for the whole rig with D200
mounted. $500 and the list price in the catalog that came with it is
$2750. I can't even count the aperture blades, maybe 16 and there are no
click stops which is kind of odd. No stop-down linkage to the camera.

Chromatic aberration is pretty strong in the test shots I did against a
white sky but it's awfully sharp. Here's some sample shots
http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography...athenar/pg1pc1
and one full size compressed jpeg
http://edgehill.net/1/Misc/photograp...e/_PBF3144.jpg

Paul Furman wrote:

Just arrived today, it's a Century Precision Optics, Hollywood,
Tele-athenar 500mm f/4.5.

It's a T-mount for which you can get adapters for any brand SLR or video
camera. I found a Nikon adapter at a local shop for $20, it came with an
olympus adapter.

19" long plus a 4" shade, 110mm thread, the tripod mount is a long bar
with two rings holding the lens and it came with a huge tripod: Bogen
3050 with 3047 pan/tilt/crank head, 27 lbs for the whole rig with D200
mounted. $500 and the list price in the catalog that came with it is
$2750. I can't even count the aperture blades, maybe 16 and there are no
click stops which is kind of odd. No stop-down linkage to the camera.

Chromatic aberration is pretty strong in the test shots I did against a
white sky but it's awfully sharp. Here's some sample shots
http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography...athenar/pg1pc1
and one full size compressed jpeg
http://edgehill.net/1/Misc/photograp...e/_PBF3144.jpg

Pudentame wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:


Just arrived today, it's a Century Precision Optics, Hollywood,
Tele-athenar 500mm f/4.5.

19" long plus a 4" shade, 110mm thread, the tripod mount is a long bar
with two rings holding the lens and it came with a huge tripod: Bogen
3050 with 3047 pan/tilt/crank head, 27 lbs for the whole rig with D200
mounted. $500 and the list price in the catalog that came with it is
$2750. I can't even count the aperture blades, maybe 16 and there are
no click stops which is kind of odd. No stop-down linkage to the camera.

Chromatic aberration is pretty strong in the test shots I did against
a white sky but it's awfully sharp. Here's some sample shots
http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography...athenar/pg1pc1
and one full size compressed jpeg
http://edgehill.net/1/Misc/photograp...e/_PBF3144.jpg


That's nice, but how 'bout a shot of the lens itself?

OK, I added 3 shots:
http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography...athenar/pg2pc7
It's bigger than it looks sitting in the back of the group & the tripod
is VERY heavy.