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Carl Nenzen Loven

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Carl, you should be able to find a set of Schneider primes in Arri-S quite cheap. These can look really good, just not as sharp as Zeiss.

Also Cooke Kinetals in Arri-S.

MKI Zeiss superspeeds in Arri-B mount may still be not too expensive if you look hard.

 

What mount adapters do you have for your ACL? I think the Arri-B one will also take Arri-S, though there are separate adapters for S and B.

 

Rehousing the switars sounds like an odd solution. I would not go that way unless it had worked technically and financially for someone else. I think you would want to try the lenses yourself before you committed to that.

 

Well the thing is this...maybe I am just very bad at looking, but the lenses you are talking about will still set me back a pretty penny, and they are in a different mount still.

 

The lens maker I makes new housing and new front coating as well to make them fit better together as well. And test it on digital and film cameras to work. Each one takes minimum of a month, and the people that I know who ordered from him says it has been on par with Duclos, and GL-optics.

 

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If you can find a set of Scneider or Kinetal or Zeis then they may have always been a matched set. But you may have to build that set yourself. I looked on ebay, including completed listings for "Scneider 10mm" and got these theree, quite cheap.....

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH-ARRIFLEX-CINEGON-10mm-1-1-8-CAMERA-LENS-/262589449769?hash=item3d238d0629:g:i7MAAOSwsTxXkg74#ht_576wt_1366

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Schneider-1-8-10mm-Arriflex-Cinegon-/262597324242?hash=item3d24052dd2:g:NZMAAOSw6n5Xwe2x#ht_3028wt_1366

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Schneider-f-Arriflex-Standard-10mm-1-8-Cinegon-27770-7-/282129387999?hash=item41b038d1df:g:IicAAOSw-itXqjCd#ht_335wt_1366

 

Can't remember all the focal lenghths that were in those Schneider sets....mabe 10, 12,25, 50, 75mm. Have a look. Get inventive with your search skills.

 

Buying a set is always best, if you can find an original matched set, or if you can find someone who has already done all the work building a set.

 

You do need to think a bit about what style of shooting you want the lens(s) for. Maybe spending on a S16 zoom is better. But using a prime set provokes an exploration of logical thinking and the visual vocabulary that a zoom will not really do.

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If you can find a set of Scneider or Kinetal or Zeis then they may have always been a matched set. But you may have to build that set yourself. I looked on ebay, including completed listings for "Scneider 10mm" and got these theree, quite cheap.....

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH-ARRIFLEX-CINEGON-10mm-1-1-8-CAMERA-LENS-/262589449769?hash=item3d238d0629:g:i7MAAOSwsTxXkg74#ht_576wt_1366

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Schneider-1-8-10mm-Arriflex-Cinegon-/262597324242?hash=item3d24052dd2:g:NZMAAOSw6n5Xwe2x#ht_3028wt_1366

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Schneider-f-Arriflex-Standard-10mm-1-8-Cinegon-27770-7-/282129387999?hash=item41b038d1df:g:IicAAOSw-itXqjCd#ht_335wt_1366

 

Can't remember all the focal lenghths that were in those Schneider sets....mabe 10, 12,25, 50, 75mm. Have a look. Get inventive with your search skills.

 

Buying a set is always best, if you can find an original matched set, or if you can find someone who has already done all the work building a set.

 

You do need to think a bit about what style of shooting you want the lens(s) for. Maybe spending on a S16 zoom is better. But using a prime set provokes an exploration of logical thinking and the visual vocabulary that a zoom will not really do.

 

As crazy as it sounds I am trying to make a fully fledged production camera for shorts. And I need someting that my 1st AC can work with, hence the rehousing.

 

As for the Kern-Switar I gain speed. I know the super speeds are amazing but if I can't go for that much, but something in the same ballpark, in cine-productio quality? That would be amazing.

 

C

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PL-mount and both ARRI mounts (the adapter that takes both).

 

Optar Illumina in 12mm looks good in PL.

 

1200 from Russia.

 

I am hoping to build a good relationship with my lens maker however, and I think it would be nice to have unique lenses that are giving me that look I want.

 

C

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Now this might be even more crazy, but seeing as we are already in the S16 field, what are the odds of making a B4-lens look good on S16?

There are a lot of B4 lenses on Ebay, both primes and Zooms, and some have really good reviews, but as for now I am just afraid for the image quality. The chromatic abborration seems very common in the zooms (as well as a focus fall off), but I am not sure if they are using the “cheap” MTF adapter.

I have emailed Abelcine to find out more, but I think B4 is a mount to dive into if it can deliver.

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