Premium Member Uli Meyer Posted November 19, 2021 Premium Member Share Posted November 19, 2021 Does the Zeiss distagon 12mm 1:1,2 arri B mount for 16mm cameras cover Super 16? Any advice most welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Dom Jaeger Posted November 19, 2021 Premium Member Share Posted November 19, 2021 All the Zeiss Super Speeds for 16mm format cover S16, even the 9.5mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Uli Meyer Posted November 19, 2021 Author Premium Member Share Posted November 19, 2021 44 minutes ago, Dom Jaeger said: All the Zeiss Super Speeds for 16mm format cover S16, even the 9.5mm. Thanks Dom, that is great to know! All the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Uli Meyer Posted January 1, 2022 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 1, 2022 (edited) On 11/19/2021 at 6:44 PM, Dom Jaeger said: All the Zeiss Super Speeds for 16mm format cover S16, even the 9.5mm. Another question: Did the Zeiss Super Speeds Mk II for S16 ever come in Arri B-mount? Or only the Mk I? Edited January 1, 2022 by Uli Meyer added S16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg MacPherson Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Mk IIs with Arri B mount were quite common on eBay a few years ago. Their mount to lens connection uses the same 8 hole flange as the PL mount,. So the Arri B and PL mounts are interchangeable. Normally reshimed if the mount is swapped over. Aftermarket 8 hole PL mounts of reliable quality are not normally cheap, but used Zeiss 8 hole Arri B mounts may still be turning up on eBay cheap if you need that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Uli Meyer Posted January 1, 2022 Author Premium Member Share Posted January 1, 2022 6 minutes ago, Gregg MacPherson said: Mk IIs with Arri B mount were quite common on eBay a few years ago. Their mount to lens connection uses the same 8 hole flange as the PL mount,. So the Arri B and PL mounts are interchangeable. Normally reshimed if the mount is swapped over. Aftermarket 8 hole PL mounts of reliable quality are not normally cheap, but used Zeiss 8 hole Arri B mounts may still be turning up on eBay cheap if you need that. Thank you Gregg! Now that you mention this, I remember a few years ago I briefly owned a set of S16 Superspeeds Mk IIs and one Mk III, which all had PL adapters (not sure about the Mk III), but I wasn't sure if I remembered that correctly. I only dabbled in 16mm for a brief period before switching to 35mm. I wish I hadn't sold them since I recently bought a S16 Arri St with an Arri B mount. Now it seems near impossible to find any Mk II B-mounts for sale. I'll keep looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg MacPherson Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 Hey Uli, what I didn't explicitly say above is that you could get MK II or III lenses in PL mount and swap the mount to a used Arri B mount (may still find them cheap). Otherwise a new aftermarket Arri B mount may be the same cost as the PL ones, almost USD400. I think Visual Products used to list them. I don't know if the exact Zeiss eight hole mount geometry has been used on other S16 lenses. Optar Illunia? Dom might know. Cine Kowa may be another option, they were in Arri B mount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Preston Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 Hello! I was just wondering if anyone knows a place where these mk2 lenses can be converted from arri B to PL? Haven’t found any parts for a mount swap to do myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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