Nicholas Kovats Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 ... was a c - mount prototype made by Schneider in the late 1970's, i.e. http://www.schneiderkreuznach.com/knowhow/variogon_e.htm I wonder how many Super 8 c - mount face plates collapsed under the sheer weight of this honken lens? Way back when Schneider had actually sent me the optical engineering diagram for this zoom monster. I had actually forgotten of it's existence until some semi-related Googling revealed it's previous existence. Ouch! "It's really all in the wide angles, baby..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Dinger Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Holy mega zoom batman! 180 f/1.8 would be heavy enough by it self. Buckeled face plates is right. Did they make any of these, cause the text makes it sound like they were produced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Kovats Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 I doubt if they ever put this monster zoom into production. It would never have been profitable in the Super 8 market, i.e. how many global users could actually justify it's expense? It's actually bad design to have mate it to a puny c mount without any proper lens support... ...which would have incurred additional expense on the part of the user. A interesting casuality in the historic Super 8 zoom wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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