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I have a wonderful Cooke Varokinetal 9-50mm T2.5 lens and an Arriflex 8 mm Carl Zeiss Distagon for my Aaton XTR XC. I can use Aaton mount, have adapter for M42 mount (Les Bosher), have adapter for Arri-B mount (Les Bosher), have adapter for Nikon mount.

Recommends and likes? I have no interest in Super 16mm format. I love standard 16mm. Lenses give you flavours and there is always an appetite.....

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As always, a well maintained triplet gives better images than an out-of-whack complicated or zoom one. The very sought-after Hypar by Goerz are triplets, nothing more than a Trioplan by Meyer or a simple anastigmat from Wollensak. Bausch & Lomb made triplets and Zeiss Triotar is a three-glass lens, too. The classic set of primes on a Paillard-Bolex H-16 are three triplets, the YVAR 25-2.5, the YVAR 15-2.8, and the YVAR 75-2.5 or -2.8.

When working with black-and-white film and filters triplets can be rewarding because yellow filters cut off ultraviolet, violet, and blue light. Almost all triplets are optimised for the spectral range from green to red, not blue. Result: tack sharp pictures.

The Tessar design is unique with tele lenses, you have that snap-in focus, as photographers liked to say. The other interesting four-glass construction is the Petzval lens. That one got modernised again and again. The B. & L. Animar 26 mm, f/1.9 is a young Petzval, very sharp in the center. The Kodak one-inch anastigmat, f/1.9 from the twenties is a descendant of the 19th century Goerz Celor but slightly asymmetric. Strong character

My favourite focal length is the double of normal, that is two inches or 50 mm for 16-mm. film. The TTH Ivotal are four-glass designs of stunning quality, the 2-inch being a champion.

Rare are Gundlach Radar and Krauss, Paris. Krauss had a 25 mm, f/1.8 Rexyl. No idea of its construction. Hermagis Perlynx is another important four-elements lens offering even illumination across the image. Finally all the Ernostar cine lenses, a group of phantastic four-glass optics. Examples: Eumigar on Eumig C 16 or the Schneider Xenoplan

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