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Lens set includes: 20mm T2.9 24mm T1.5 28mm T2.1 35mm T2.1 55mm T1.3 85mm T1.3 135mm T2.1 The lenses have never been shot with or used on set. Excellent optics. Bodies / housings are immaculate, as to be expect with a new lens. Imperial markings. The lens set ships worldwide from the UK at cost. Price: £75,000 For a UK sale please add VAT at 20%. The buyer pays all shipping and insurance.

For nearly 8 years it's been a dream of mine to find a technician or company willing to rehoused the Angenieux cinema prime lenses dating from the 1950s. Of these lenses, the retrofocal wide angle primes lenses for 35mm - the 14.5mm and the 18.5mm are the best well known. The 14.5mm was used to shoot sequences in Kubrick's Doctor Strangelove and the 18.5mm was used by Orson Welles on Touch of Evil, most famously for the three and a half minutes opening shot. Most of the copies of these lenses are available on either Cameflex or Arri-standard mount, and due to their tiny size are almost impossible to use on a modern camera. They are also increasingly difficult to find at affordable prices, most having been bought up by Japanese and Chinese photographers and converted to Leica M mount. But if you've shot with them, you know just how beautiful they are and the very subtle magic they can bring when used correctly. Since 2019, Zero Optiks have rehoused the 18.5mm lens as an additional lens in their 1930s Baltar set, but no one has attempted to rehouse the longer focal lengths and create a workable shooting set. Until now... Burning Eye A.V. based in the Netherlands have agreed to take this project on and are now looking for owners of these lenses to get in touch. Many in the lens world will know Burning Eye A.V. for designing the Aires lens set Undead Optics , as well as numerous other creative lens projects. Anyone who owns a set of these lenses, or even just single focal length, Burning Eye A.V. wants to hear from you. They can be emailed about this project directly at: Eelco@burningeye.nl Burning Eye A.V. will be taking a 3D printed mocked up to IBC, which can be viewed at the Camera Rentals lens event on September 12th.

Cooke Kinetal 50mm T2 Arri PL mount cine lens. The lens was designed for S16 film cameras, but the image circle is large enough to cover S35 and almost (with a slight vignette) FF/135 cameras. Rehoused by British lens technician Les Bosher, the housing is smaller and more compact than those made by TLS. The lens has integrated gears for focus and aperture, a Arri PL mount and a 95mm frontage. The optics are clean and bright with no haze, fungus or separation. There are faint cleaning marks to the front and rear optics, as is to be expected with a lens of it's age. There is some very minor play in the housing (standard for a Les Bosher lens) but the focus and aperture operate as expected. Price: £2350 (no VAT for a UK sale). The lenses ship worldwide from the UK at cost.

Canon FD L 14mm f2.8, rehousing completed last week, by True Lens Services. The lens has never been shot with or used on set. The optics are clean and unmarked. Body / housing is immaculate, as to be expect with a new lens. Imperial markings. Perfect super wide angle lens to compliment any rehoused Canon FD or K35 set. If you need specific additional images, let me know. The lens ships worldwide from the UK at cost. The buyer pays all shipping and insurance. Price: £20,000 (for a UK sale add VAT at 20%.)