Hello,
I'm looking a bit help with figuring out bit more information and preferably some price estimates for a collection of vintage Arri lenses I acquired long time ago already but haven't had any chance of using. I'm a (film) photographer and I got these close to a decade ago from an old relative of mine, but I haven't really had any use for them so I've just kept them in their storage boxes waiting for inspiration to either dabble in video world to test them out myself or list them for sale, since I'd much prefer film camera equipment I can actually use than a box full of good glass collecting dust. ?
What I have - I think - are all Arri Standard mount 16mm lenses(?) and the userbase and market for these is really niche(?), but after searching for example footage, I discovered that as vintage lenses they do seem to have their own unique look even more than what I'm used to seeing with photographic vintage lenses.
I did look up on adapters and found some recommendations for first adapterizing to Arri PL, then to whatever needed, but since the adapters themselves did seem to cost hundreds, I decided not to go that way for simply trying these out for fun. Furthermore I have absolutely no idea what size of image circle these lenses produce, so I didn't want to spend that money to find out that the image circle would barely cover half of the fullframe sensor.
So as a list:
Überkochen Opton Di 1:2 f=8mm T* (Distagon, I presume?)
Angenieux-Zoom F. 17.5 - 80mm 1:2.2
Zeiss Planar 1:2 f=50mm
Cooke Kinetal 25mm
Cooke Varokinetal 9-50mm f2.2 T2.5 (with its original metal box and accessories)
Condition-wise I'd see them as fair-to-good. Paintwork certainly has marks on some (mostly the Angenieux) and they're clearly used, but no major scratches, no dents, mechanical functions seem to work all good albeit zoom rings do give me a vibe that CLA wouldn't be a bad thing for smoothest operation. Glass surfaces are all good, except for 8mm which seems to have a very minute mark on the rear element. I'm unsure if that has effect on the image. Otherwise it's just dust, no fungus, no nothing.
Sooo.. Help me out? What I'm looking at here? ? Pile of stuff nobody wants or something that indeed can have a place in cinematographers's camera bag? I know Planar is Planar both in photo and video, and youtube seems to have really nice examples of Cooke image quality. But they don't spell Leica nor Hasselblad so other than that I'm at odds here.
Any info will be appreciated ?
Cheers,
Sara
