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Mystery Lens
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:40 pm
by harvey
My father-in-law purchased a lens for £1 as a curiosity and came along to ask what it was.
The lens is a manual zoom and seems to have two secondary lenses mounted above what I presume are photo-cells or something similar.
Attached are a couple of images.
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- Mystery Lens view 1
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- DSC03248.jpg
- Mystery Lens view 2
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Note that the higher sensor is geared to move a few mm with the focus of the lens.
Does anyone have an idea what this lens was used for?
Re: Mystery Lens
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:33 pm
by the_hefay
The old Sony beta cams used a sonopter lens. Maybe it's from an older Sony video camera.
Re: Mystery Lens
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:58 pm
by Dusty
Harvey, the 12-72 mm range seems to fit the one-size-fits-all lens for a small sensor - like video or p&s.
Dusty
Re: Mystery Lens
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 11:52 pm
by Eiffel
This could have been a lens for a Super 8 camera, or similar device (using one of the other lenses to measure exposure. I'm not sure why a third lens with sensor would be needed
Re: Mystery Lens
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:27 am
by the_hefay
Let's say it came off an old video camera with an electronic viewfinder. One of those "lenses" could be for that purpose. There seems to be a bunch of housing missing so perhaps one of them is the internal monitor that the viewfinder would use.
Re: Mystery Lens
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 5:02 pm
by harvey
Yes, thanks, it does look like lenses very like this one were used in early video cameras.
For example:
this Ebay listing