SPECIAL Elite 7mm S-16/Canon 150-600L/Tobin Milliframe Controller/Abakus B4 to S-16 132 converter SUPERB

Tobias Mennle · August 6, 2012

Hello, I put up on ebay some rare specialty items from my past film times. Located in Germany.

Elite S-16mm/T1.3 first rate superwideangle lens

Ebay item no. 290756355997

Abakus Scientific B4 to S-16 132 Converter AWESOME

Ebay item no. 290756343936

Tobin Milliframe Controller TMC for Arriflex SR etc.

Ebay item no. 290756334608

Canon 150-600L with universal mount and Nikon F, Canon EF and Pl mount adaptors

Ebay item no. 290756280221

Elite S-16mm/T1.3 first rate superwide

Optically first rate superwideangle by Elite Optika (St. Petersburg, www.optica-elite.com). No. S98207P02. Front lens minty with some very tiny cleaning marks (hard to see and invisible in images). Rear lens very good with one small damage far outside the image circle (16:9). Lenses very clean and clear, very little dust. Mechanically usable, but could really use a good service - 0.5mm play between front- and rear part of housing, aperture ring with little friction except between T2 and T1.3 - stiff there. Focussing ring with a lot of friction, a bit dry.

The lens gives extremely sharp images with clear blacks under difficult backlit conditions. Wonderful sun star. Very good edge performance. Elite claims a resolution of 200Lp/mm for the center and 140 Lp/mm for the edge. List price new for the successor models 6.6mm 3400.- Euro, 8mm 2450.- Euro.

First rate affordable superwides remain rare. This is one. A modern lens, completely unlike old N16 wideangles!!!

Abakus Scientific B4 to S-16 132 Converter

Converts 2/3 HD B4 lenses to pristine S-16. Superb quality, a selected sample. Optically like new. Some signs of use on the body. Bought in 2009 and used on 3.5 rolls of film. It´s the latest HD version of the converter!

The quality is awesome and just blows away most S-16 zooms if you use a good HD lens. I checked it with the Canon 18x28 and saw no quality difference in the Chrosziel projection with or without converter.

Tobin Milliframe Controller TMC for Arriflex SR etc.

The fantastic variable speed unit which gives quarzed speeds up to the milliframe on Arri SRs and other cameras. With Fisher plug. Around 550 USD new, out of production, very rare. Technically in perfect conditions with some signs of use.

Canon 150-600L with universal mount and Nikon F, Canon EF and Pl mount adaptors

The legendary supertelezoom, allegedely only 1050 samples were built, most of which went into the film industry (where they were only superseded by the 75 000 USD 12kg Angenieux 24-290 with 2x extender). It was the most expensive FD lens ever built.

SN 10565. The body shows strong signs of use, the front lens is in very good condition with faint cleaning marks, the rear lens is mint, was always protected by inbuilt filter. Internal lenses with some dust and cleaning marks. I had the inner system cleaned by the official FD service in Germany about 10 years ago and did not use the lens very much since. The mechanical system - aperture, zoom and focussing is faultless and operation is very fast.

Image quality is very good, very sharp pictures from open aperture, very little improvement with stopping down (tested on a 10MP FourThirds Chip, corresponding to 40MP or 8K Full Frame 36x24mm). This sample is so much better than a second one I tested and resolves at 500/5.6 much better than my Sigma 50-500 stopped down 1.5 stops. The Sigma image looks more contrasty on first sight (rough edge contrast) but the fine details are totally smeared and unsharp. With the Canon I add a bit of contrast in postproduction and the images are perfect and highly resolving.

Contact me for image samples.

I sell the lens because I now use a small Canon HD zoom which is better for wildlife filming on location.

Specialties:

- Custom made universal mount, top quality Made in Germany by Mr. Dresel, 60mm focal flange universal mount (an expensive transformation from FD!), a Canon FD chrome ring attaches the adapters superbly. Comes with Nikon F custom made adapter, an Nikon F - Canon EF adapter, and a custom made PL mount adapter. Other adapters can easily be made as the lens was transfered to 60mm focal flange.

- Bottom plate was reinforced with aluminum plate.

- Small hole in the sunshade

- Small hole in the body, closed by tape. Through this hole a small screw which moves in the zoom curve can easily be tightened occasionally which otherwise can become loose and damage the optics (which happened). Ingenious.

Regards,

Tobias