Nut's lens

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:43 am

Schneider Xenon 25mm f0.95
I know an old movie nut who has something like this. It would be something like an 8x NA 0.52, give or take some PMF.
Has anyone tried its like?
I hope his house heating breaks down soon, then I might be able to get him to let me play with it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/M25-Schneider-Xen ... 2556dcab3e

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:59 am

Stanley Kubrik used an f0.7 lens (or was it a pair of lenses?) made for a candlelight scene (no other lights) in Barry Lindon. It seems it was a used Apollo mission lens. Affordable, then!

That lens (one of them? I don't recall the focal length) was offered by Peter Walnes a year or two ago.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/ ... hp?t=53469

http://photo.net/filters-bags-tripods-a ... rum/007UfX

Harold

elf · Post by **elf** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:40 am

http://www.edmundoptics.com/onlinecatal ... uctID=3138

and only moderately expensive

p.s They also carry other Schneider lens.

ChrisR · Post by **ChrisR** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:19 pm

COUple here too.
http://www.edmundoptics.com/onlinecatal ... uctID=2892

Presumably these things aren't particularly well corrected wide open because they don't have to be, for movies, but some of them are expensive enough that they might be

Anyone got a Nikkor Noctilux?

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:30 pm

At that price, they're probably pretty well corrected.

However...

The 17 mm lens is designed to cover an 11 mm circle. Contrast this with a 10X microscope objective that is designed to cover only 2.5 mm. One might suspect that having to cover a 4X wider angle would force the designer to make some compromises.

--Rik

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:10 am

A must-have for the serious Schneider lens connoisseur, huh?!

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ebay 270474919530

--Betty