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Didn't Stanley Kubrick have three 0.72 lenses made for when he made Brian Lyndon.

I seam to remember that Zeiss made them.

Brian

It was "Barry Lindon", Brian, unless there's a lesser-known version, which featured your good self.:D

 

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Yes, it's the Monty Python version... :D

 

I believe they also used them in "life of Brian" :D

 

Seriously I am sure Sean Reid discussed Stanley Kubrick having these lenses made in one of his extremely good essays. At the present I am away from home and only have an iPad with me which means no adobe flash so no Reid Reviews for me to check my info.

Brian

Have a good weekend friends

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Thanks for the contributions!

It looks like that Planar 50/0.7 has a Modulation Transfer of 0.5 at 10 to 15 linepairs per mm. I'll do an MTF test with the crystal ball, but I think it will be no more than 0.5 linepairs per mm at a modulation of 0.5, so in that case no competition for the Planar.

 

Interesting design, that Planar: That whole stack of glass, just to handle aberrations at these extreme apertures.

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It was "Barry Lindon", Brian, unless there's a lesser-known version, which featured your good self.:D

 

Pete.

 

Kubric accessed Zeiss f0.7 lenses designed for NASA to film the candlelight scenes. These articles, which I remembed from years ago, are still on the net and are quite interesting, especially how the lenses were adapted to fit the cinema cameras and how they dealt with non-existent DOF.

 

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This is of course part of one of the Apollo conspiracy theories: that man never landed on the moon but that it was secretly filmed in a studio by Kubric:rolleyes:. Kubric threatened to tell the world if NASA didn't lend him their precious fast lenses:rolleyes:

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Specifically made for ugly lady portraits.

 

Not quite legendary Thambar but something like this perhaps.

 

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Interesting picture, mmradman, but quite impossible to see in real life. The lady is not impossible, but the combination of her two images is. An almost cylindrically shaped glass forms a negative lens only in a horizontal plane and not in the vertical plane. Therefore her image should not be reduced in vertical direction, yet this is what the picture shows.

 

I do like the idea behind the image, however, and that idea deserves a better realisation, I think... :)

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The hunt for faster and faster lenses continues! Today I found a lens with an aperture of f/0.72. It has a focal length of 130 mm and here you can see it mounted in front of my M9:

 

sphericallens.jpg

 

The spherical and chromatic aberrations are considerable, but the light gathering capacity of this lens is fantastic.

 

Here you can see an image taken with this lens of my 8x10 inch Gandolfi next to an image taken with a Summilux 50/1.4 asph. from the same location but cropped to match the viewangle.

 

sphericallensimagecompared.jpg

 

Wow, I love how incredibly THIN that DOF is! Talk about thinner than paper thin! Just, where is the focus? I can't seem to find it ;)

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