James Coleman Rogers

PRICE DROP: $20K flat.

Optics in quite nice condition, aperture functions perfectly, focus ring turns freely. Housing/body has signs of use, but I doubt anyone much cares about that... BNCR mount. Includes screw-on lens hood/shade seen in pic below. GREAT candidate for rehousing or PL mount conversion, for someone looking to complete their 24-35-55-85 K-35 set! Asking $23500, will consider trades for vintage anamorphic glass, etc of similar rarity/value (not interested in Lomo square-fronts).

9mm does not cover super16, made for regular 16mm...can apparently be modified to just cover super16 though, by trimming the retaining ring on the front optic in the proper spots to expand coverage on the corners. The 16mm definitely covers super16 from what I remember, not so sure about micro4/3...if I had to guess I'd say no. I *think* the only one in this series that covers m4/3 is the 25mm. They are beautiful looking pieces of glass though, for sure...looks like yours are in pretty good shape, and nice that they aren't in the funky proprietary CinemaProducts/"mini-BNCR" mount.

Yes it sure is @Jared Christopher!

@john a jadkowski Zero breathing to speak of. I had a Canon 10.8-180mm T2.7-3.4, Canon's 3rd and final generation of Super16 zooms, and while it was a stunningly good lens, the Cooke bested it in all departments except zoom range. If I had to guess, sharpness is on par with the very-sharp Zeiss 11-110mm, but that lens has a lot of breathing and if I remember, also some chromatic aberration. The Cooke has negligible levels of CA, no breathing, and stunning sharpness...over 100 line-pairs per mm. Stays quite sharp even to the edges. Has that much-sought-after "Cooke Look" in spades... It does very nicely wide open, just have to watch out for the flares (the usual, very beautiful and dramatic rainbow, etc. common in vintage Cookes)...the flares disappear with just a slight stop down, which is great...accessible when you want them, easy to get rid of when you don't by stopping down less than half a stop. Stunning lens that doesn't come up for sale often...mainly because those that have them generally hold on to them long term due to their performance. Reluctant to get rid of mine, but need to offset some recent purchases and the repairs that will need to be done on them.

As title says, some Super16 lenses for sale. The Cooke Varokinetal is just a simply incredible lens; as sharp as it gets especially with Super16. This is an original Super16 done by Cooke themselves from the factory, not a conversion. Lens was serviced by Optitek about one year ago (an inner element had some haze and aperture was malfunctioning, Jacek cleaned it right up and brought everything back to spec, and of course did a standard CLA, along with conversion to PL mount and adding a 0.8 focus gear), and has not been used since servicing except to test it and play with it a bit. Has Chrosziel Fluid Zoom damper attached on zoom ring. Body isnt perfect, has the typical finish wear that comes with normal use, but who really cares about that? Glass and coatings are purdy, and the image it puts out is just lovely. Some of the usual light cleaning marks on each, nothing of note. Only thing it's missing is a front ring to bring the front to standard size for matte box...Ive used a janky setup with some rubber bands to allow my mattebox to work on it (seen in pictures). Mattebox not included; I'll leave the front OD ring up to the buyer to get, so they can have one done to their preference. Price: $4500 USD Kinoptik Primes: Interesting little lenses. They have some aberrations wide open as is typical of tiny little fast aperture lenses of the period; but when stopped down to 2.8 and smaller, they sharpen up beautifully. Flare on both is very well controlled, as is breathing...12.5mm has very little and the 9mm has NONE. 9mm F1.5 has focus tabs, 12.5mm doesn't, but I imagine the buyer will want to get focus gears anyway. These things are just so damn small and light, they would make for great lenses for use with steadicam/gimbal. The PL is mounts on each are simple adapter type, and they work just fine. 12.5mm has somewhat stiff focus ring, so it could use a CLA; 9mm rings turn smoothly. $1100 for the 9mm, $900 for the 12.5mm. If you want all three lenses, the Cooke and both Kinoptiks, I'll do a package deal at $6,000 total. All prices not including shipping/paypal fees. Thanks for looking.

*prays fervently* Please, God...someone out there has to have a line on the 30 or 40mm!

Might be somewhat of a long-shot, but I'm hoping maybe someone here has one of these sitting around. I am looking for Cooke DuoPanchros (the ones made for 65/70mm, not the Double-Speeds which were made for VistaVision...although the 75mm Double-Speed would interest me.) I have the 55mm DuoPanchro, and I'd like to try and find the 30mm and the 40mm to complete the set. I am not really interested in selling the 55, but I would *maybe* consider trades for vintage anamorphics (anything other than Lomo Squarefront). That's if I have no luck finding the 30 and 40, of course. Here's the 55:

Reluctantly, selling my Isco54...I searched for one for so long and was so happy to finally have one, but I need to free up some funds to purchase Helium or Gemini...so I am selling this and a handful of other pieces from my collection of glass. My copy has a ~1mm scratch near the outer edge of the front element, however in using the lens I have never found any effect on the image. I would not let this discourage you at all, it is purely cosmetic. Other than this one thing, and the usual minor bits of internal dust, the rest of the glass is in wonderful shape. All that said, I'm of course not going to ask the same price as an example in perfect condition...so I am asking considerably less than the going rate of $4-5k for an Isco 54, or even 42/36. This one is a multicoated model, has fantastic flare resistance for those of you that like to avoid flares. Comes with a rare step-up ring that goes from 55mm (on taking-lens-side) to the 77mm of the Isco54's rear thread...it's deep, designed to compensate for the Isco's rear element that otherwise sticks out considerably. Being 55mm, it is ideal for using with Contax Zeiss! ? This would make a GREAT candidate for rehousing either by Van Diemen, or for EXO-Optik's "Proxiscope"; both of which greatly improve upon this already awesome lens by implementing a non-rotating front, as well as allowing significantly closer minimum-focus-distance (under 3 feet). EXO-Optik: https://m.facebook.com/exooptik?__tn__=R $3000 USD, or €2500. Great opportunity to get into the world of Isco for less than the ever-increasing usual prices. Pictures attached, taken with flashlight shining through from other side to show clarity of glass and make internal dust visible (those are the specks seen, disassembly and cleaning can take care of them if you want to do so, but otherwise they do not affect anything), and the third pic points out the small scratch near the outer edge.

Bump! Price drop to $950USD.

Canon 10.6-180mm T2.7 available here, in PL mount. Metric markings.

BUMP! UPDATE!!: I have added a stainless PL-mount onto the Astro-Berlin. Image attached to this post. Also, I have taken a number of quick sample clips using the lens (taken on a Nikon Z6). Here we go: Sample in S35/APS-C mode, showing general look and close-focus: https://vimeo.com/496424721 Clip in Z6 36x20 Full-Frame mode, showing amount of vignetting (not much. a 10% crop removes it): https://vimeo.com/496427886 Clip showing lack of chromatic aberration: https://vimeo.com/496427746 Clip showing amount of focus-breathing: https://vimeo.com/496427639 And finally, a clip showing lens flare (soft purple classic double-gauss flare, which I find quite beautiful!): https://vimeo.com/496427565 There we go! Hope that helps someone make up their mind. This is a VERY cool, ultra rare lens that is difficult to find in such good condition, and it just gives such a cool and unique look compared to the usual ubiquitous Cook Panchros or Zeiss standard-speeds.

I have an absolutely mint 10.6-180mm. And I do mean beautiful...the body essentially looks like the day it left the factory. Factory case. Picture added below. I'd be reluctant to part with it as it is such an awesome lens...but would, if the offer were right, and i'd have to make do with just my S16 Varokinetal.

This is an incredible, beautiful, VERY rare lens, factory arriflex-mount Astro-Berlin Gauss-Tachar MACRO version, 40mm F2.0. The glass is in perfect shape. Not a single fault. Very hard to find Gauss-Tachars especially with good glass condition. The mount does NOT rotate with focus, so it can be easily adapted to PL mount with a simple adapter from ebay or rafcamera costing like $30. Takes like 2 minutes to install and works great, I used the lens this way but the mount is now in use on the Kinoptik I also have for sale. The image put out ny this is simply gorgeous. Classic, very sharp with nice contrast, and a good way to differentiate from the common Cooke Panchros and Zeiss standards. Lens has a distinct look compared to them and performs equally well perhaps even better. GORGEOUS, classic double-gauss flares come out of this thing. It just perfectly covers a Nikon Z6 in 10bit N-log (which I believe is a 10% crop off of full-frame 36x20), so it will have absolutely no problem covering Dragon, Helium, or Alexa open-gate with zero vignette. Focus is smooth, aperture blades function without issue and remain beautifully round all the way down (lots of blades on this lens, makes for gorgeous bokeh even stopped down). I REALLY want to build a set of these, but I need to free up some cash to use on re-mounting/modernizing a VERY rare front-anamorphic-zoom currently on its way to me. 4000 USD, located in northern Virginia. Will ship.

Beautiful little Kinoptik "982", covers super16 with absolutely no vignette/corner-darkening. 12.5mm, f1.5/T1.8; aperture ring is marked in T-stops. Great close focus; goes down to around 0.2-0.25meters, well under 12 inches. Lowest mark on focus ring is 0.3M, as visible in photo, but the ring turns a good bit beyond that point. VERY compact, would make a wonderful lens for use on gimbal/steadicam; just add gear ring for follow focus, or would be great for use on a Red in crop mode for high frame-rates. Nice lens to be different from the usual ubiquitous Zeiss s16 superspeeds. Glass and coatings in very good shape, only thing keeping it from perfection is a few VERY minor/uber-thin cleaning-marks on front element, as is usual on vintage glass. So microscopically thin it will never ever have any effect on performance, so do not let it concern you, I only mention it for sake of accurate representation. Did my best to try to capture it in the photo of the front element, but hard to capture and im not sure if it shows. Focus and aperture turn smoothly, although focus ring is getting a little bit stiff and could probably use a clean/lube. But with that said, it is still smooth enough for use as is. As with many vintage lenses of this nature, it is soft wide open, but...WOW, does it get SHARP when stopped down. Gives my Super16 Cooke VaroKinetal a run for its money and I'd say it even outperforms it a bit when stopped down to T4 and up, which is really saying something for those of you that know the performance-level of the Cooke. The lens has a desirable very late serial-number, and thus has Kinoptik's most recent, modern coatings. A lovely lens, but I have WAY too many and need to free up some $$$ to remount/modernize a very rare vintage anamorphic zoom that is on its way to me now. I'm asking $1,050, and I am more or less firm on that price; not desperate and in no rush to sell.

Indeed...a great deal of Jules et Jim actually used this lens. The shot you mention definitely used this lens, as it was the first and only front-anamorphic zoom lens at the time and remained so I think until the 70's. It was also used on "The Blue Max" (GREAT film!) And also was used for a large portion of "Un Femme Est Un Femme (A Woman Is A Woman)". As well as "The Creatures" and a few others I'm forgetting, and likely many more I'm unaware of. I will do a detailed post elsewhere on the forum, and include some tests, as soon as I receive the lens in a few weeks ?

NO LONGER AVAILABLE! I traded it...for this!!! (Franscope 40-140mm 2x anamorphic zoom):

I have an EXTREMELY rare piece of Cinemascope/anamorphic history available. An example of the first large-format anamorphic system in the world, used on the famous 1956 film "THE KING AND I". This is related to B&L's original "Cinemascope" lenses... but so much more special/unique. It is a large-format version, made specially by Bausch&Lomb for the "CinemaScope55" format...it is labeled as "Super Cinemascope", rather than merely "Cinemascope" to signify its design for the large-format negative (actually larger than 65/70mm, the negative area is the size of FOUR 4perf super35 negatives...massive). This lens, and the Cinemascope55 format, were only used on two films: "Carousel" and the famous film "The King and I". You can read more about the format here: https://www.in70mm.com/news/2007/cinemascope55/uk/index.htm The example I have is a 152mm lens (s35 4-perf equivalent focal length would be ~75mm I think), in superb condition, functioning PERFECTLY. Smooth focus, aperture functioning perfectly, staying perfectly round. I am sure someone here will be interested in this...truly stunning, likely one-of-a-kind, practically priceless piece of cinema/widescreen history. Deserves to have an appropriate home found for it, to be preserved for future generations. Would be great to see it used again (as long as it can be done without irreversably damaging the original condition of the lens)...or, this would make an INCREDIBLE display piece for the showroom/office of a rental house, lens manufacturer, private collection, museum, etc. I am interested especially in TRADES of interesting/rare lenses. Attached are some pictures, one displaying the special "Super CinemaScope" nomenclature: The last image shows the special "SUPER CinemaScope" nomenclature, signifying its design for CinemaScope55 large format. Cheers, and thanks for looking!

I use a cooke super16 10.4-52mm Varokinetal, and a Canon super16 10.6-180mm on my GH5. Covers 4k (crop mode 4k is almost exactly same size as super16 gate) perfectly, zero vignette. Absolutely stunning lenses.

First pic of the beauty, fully restored and modernized! Work done by Jacek @ Optitek. Should be back in my hands soon, test will follow the day it arrives!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/AATON-A-MINIMA-SUPER-16-16MM-A298-in-perfect-condition/283995066856?hash=item421f6cd1e8:g:75cAAOSwjmhecy13 Wish I could afford this thing. I bought my Canon S16 10.6-180mm lens from this exact same seller about a month ago, and it was in absolute MINT shape. I was stunned. Got an insane deal on it too...

One just popped up on ebay. not sure what "reasonable price" is for one of these.

You're likely right and the labeling on the site i found it are wrong. heres where it came from: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/concubine-kaige.html

Any idea what these here might be? I have zero experience with film machinery like this, before my time... Only photo I could find from set of Farewell My Concubine showing cameras upon a quick search. The presence of all those western faces would certainly fit with what youre saying.

I have always found these so interesting...those who have them must keep them, they're quite rare it seems. I hear tell the 25mm Planar covers a good deal more than just super16. I can't purchase, but for that above contribution about the 25mm I would be overjoyed if a link to that test footage appeared in my inbox ?. Just wanting to satisfy personal curiosity.