Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Designed for a Hasselblad and used to film the candle lit scene in Barry Lyndon? I thought that Kubrick used Arriflex cameras exclusively? And I've never heard of a Hasselblad motion picture camera (which certainly doesn't mean it doesn't exist!) But if it were a repurposed MF camera lens (and maybe it was the giant lens they made for NASA), it seems unsuitable since 35mm motion picture film is roughly 18x24mm and a fast lens designed for 6x6 would have disadvantages in wide open performance since it is covering so much unused image circle. I recall a hoax of a lens they showed at some camera show probably in the 50s or 60s when superspeed lenses were all the rage, image quality be damned. The front element was something like 12 inches in diameter and it was much faster than .95 Pat - --- Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> wrote: > At 11:35 AM 8/29/02 -0400, you wrote: > >In a message dated 8/29/02 11:05:13 AM Eastern > Daylight Time, > >stuart.phillips@rcn.com writes: > > > > > Who but God could have designed the Noctilux? > > > >Marc James will say Carl Zeiss. Could have. But > chose not to. Had no camera > >on which to put it. > > > >Nicht wahr, Seamus? > > To be fair, an f/1 lens would have been a superb > vehicle for the Contax IV > but, well, you see, they sort of, kind of forgot to > put that one into > production ... > > Zeiss, of course, has made a number of super-fast > lenses over the years, > including the monstrosity designed for the > Hasselblad and used to film the > candle-light scenes in Barry Lindon. > > Marc > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html