This lens fell in my lap (e-bay photo), this 55mm 1.2 O CRT in LTM mount will arrive today. KEH says it is in really good shape. Else they get it back.
This lens is very sharp at 5:1, great for flower photos like yours, stacked or fully open. It is also great for weird effects.
It was not cheap, but it was not NOCT price either. If I were a real photog I would just buy the NOCT, instead of spending more money than a NOCT on many other lenses.
From September at the National Corvette Museum, Later Bowling Green got hit with the tornado and GM supposedly crushed 135 new Vettes do to damage . I would have wanted one!
Unfortunately my reappearance is going to be short-lived. I just came back from hospital where I went for a battery of tests on my arm and neck. I have a pinched nerve around C6 which is causing enough concern for the neurosurgeon. You could say he gets paid to cut people up and that's what he wants to do on Thursday next week. I'll be in for a few days with recovery expected to take 4-6 weeks. Currently I am struggling with the left arm.
Sorry to hear about this Siphiwe. All the best for a smooth recovery!
GeorgeBo wrote:
I was wondering if anyone here was going to grab that when I saw it before Christmas
Looking forward to the results.
George, I may not be the best photographer to own this lens, but I will keep it for a while and see how it goes.
I was lucky in that the lens is essentially new, complete with original plastic bag, warranty card and box. Glass is incredibly clean.
This lens arrived today, it is great at 1/5 magnification or at 5/1 reversed, fully open and not so good for anything else. It is rare, specially in this condition. I did once buy all 4 multiphot lenses and ended up selling them, will see if this one is a keeper for me.
Lens is easy to mount on a LTM to F and F to Z adapter set, it will not focus to infinity but will provide a useful range with a F to Z helicoid adapter plus its own long LTM thread. It can be mounted on a LTM to Z adapter and it will reach infinity this way, but there is no purpose to infinity focus, images are very poor this way.
Here are some quick photos of the lens and a couple of samples. Will show better photos, but on a rush today.
Wow, it is in great condition! When I saw it, I struggled to find an application that I would use it in. Still a great find and a great addition to your collection!
G
rafaelcasd wrote:
George, I may not be the best photographer to own this lens, but I will keep it for a while and see how it goes.
I was lucky in that the lens is essentially new, complete with original plastic bag, warranty card and box. Glass is incredibly clean.
This lens arrived today, it is great at 1/5 magnification or at 5/1 reversed, fully open and not so good for anything else. It is rare, specially in this condition. I did once buy all 4 multiphot lenses and ended up selling them, will see if this one is a keeper for me.
Lens is easy to mount on a LTM to F and F to Z adapter set, it will not focus to infinity but will provide a useful range with a F to Z helicoid adapter plus its own long LTM thread. It can be mounted on a LTM to Z adapter and it will reach infinity this way, but there is no purpose to infinity focus, images are very poor this way.
Here are some quick photos of the lens and a couple of samples. Will show better photos, but on a rush today.
Ken - that's an interesting Corvette, I wasn't familiar with that edition (1953 that is, not the cut-away version !) I really like the early twin headlight versions. I just watched a British show called Car SOS where they fixed up an MG like that one, the MG GT-A I think?
Siphiwe - hope the surgery goes well / went well and you're not too long without a camera in hand.
Look after yourself and be careful Samy, old bones don't flex like young ones !
Rafael - interesting lens and great condition, what is the Oscilloscope designation for ? from what I remember of them I'm confused as to how a lens is involved? or are all the "O"'s on mf nikkors such as the 35/2 O etc stand for Oscilloscope ?
I used to go into my granddad's laboratory at the hospital on sundays as a child (he was an early biochemist) and he had things like that and one of those machines with a needle that drew red lines on graph paper like when they detect earthquakes too ! The smell of the chemicals in large dark brown. green and blue bottles on shelves etc. Memories !
Andy
EDIT - ah, I see after a quick web search that they were used to take photos of oscillator screens. Makes sense ! How easily we forget that in those days hitting the "Print screen" button wasn't possible !
Ken - that's an interesting Corvette, I wasn't familiar with that edition (1953 that is, not the cut-away version !) I really like the early twin headlight versions. I just watched a British show called Car SOS where they fixed up an MG like that one, the MG GT-A I think?
Siphiwe - hope the surgery goes well / went well and you're not too long without a camera in hand.
Look after yourself and be careful Samy, old bones don't flex like young ones !
Rafael - interesting lens and great condition, what is the Oscilloscope designation for ? from what I remember of them I'm confused as to how a lens is involved? or are all the "O"'s on mf nikkors such as the 35/2 O etc stand for Oscilloscope ?
I used to go into my granddad's laboratory at the hospital on sundays as a child (he was an early biochemist) and he had things like that and one of those machines with a needle that drew red lines on graph paper like when they detect earthquakes too ! The smell of the chemicals in large dark brown. green and blue bottles on shelves etc. Memories !
Andy
EDIT - ah, I see after a quick web search that they were used to take photos of oscillator screens. Makes sense ! How easily we forget that in those days hitting the "Print screen" button wasn't possible !...Show more →
Andy, O stands for Octo = Eight - that is eight elements. Oscilloscopes are instruments that electrical engineers use to trace signals vs time. In the old times they worked by applying the signal voltage to Y axis and a timed sweep to the X axis of a cathode ray tube, that is a vacuum tube where an electron beam is projected onto a phosphor coated screen. Same principle as an old TV. There are other instruments that used a CRT, like spectrum analyzers. Recording these images onto film was important to document measurements. Today the same instruments use fast Analog to digital converters to covert the signal to numerical data which is then projected onto an LCD screen digitally, likewise records are kept in digital files.
The Nikkor CRT is sharp and fast at photographing 4 to 8 inch objects, the normal size of instrument screens, not so good for anything else.
Rafael, I had seen references to this lens before but great to see someone on the thread have it in their hands. It is a pretty lens!!
rafaelcasd wrote:
Andy, O stands for Octo = Eight - that is eight elements. Oscilloscopes are instruments that electrical engineers use to trace signals vs time. In the old times they worked by applying the signal voltage to Y axis and a timed sweep to the X axis of a cathode ray tube, that is a vacuum tube where an electron beam is projected onto a phosphor coated screen. Same principle as an old TV. There are other instruments that used a CRT, like spectrum analyzers. Recording these images onto film was important to document measurements. Today the same instruments use fast Analog to digital converters to covert the signal to numerical data which is then projected onto an LCD screen digitally, likewise records are kept in digital files.
The Nikkor CRT is sharp and fast at photographing 4 to 8 inch objects, the normal size of instrument screens, not so good for anything else.
Thank you all for the great comments which are very much appreciated.
James, excellent photographs of the young man and his toys.
Ken, excellent photos and color from the Corvette Museum.
Rafael, congrats on a rare beautiful lens.
Our fantastico friends from Florence drove us to a friend's small vineyard in Tuscany. The Tuscan countryside is breathtaking and wished would have had more time for the photo department. I will try to post others when they exit the tweaking machine.
The couple facing each other are our friends with my much better half:
leighton w wrote:
Possibly, or they just think I move too slowly!
All kidding aside, we have never seen this many at one time in our 25 years here. Pretty cool.
I only see that many vultures gathered if there's a carcass nearby. There probably was one under under the trees. Leighton, you are safe, they were probably waiting for you to move away so they could descend to their meal
Ken Hill wrote:
From September at the National Corvette Museum, Later Bowling Green got hit with the tornado and GM supposedly crushed 135 ne Vettes do to damage . I would have wanted one!
Ken, thinking about a whole bunch of vettes crushed does make shudder. Almost as much as getting good Nikon gear damaged
saph wrote:
Second snowfall this week. Took a spill on the ice layer under snow I was shoveling off. Didn't break anything, I believe.
I almost hit "like" then thought about it. Glad to hear you are OK, stay careful. Maybe not the best time to carry a tripod and large format gear if there is frozen precipitation on the ground.
Ray, lol, I also realize sometimes I don't want to 'like' certain posts. But sage advice, which I did not follow yesterday. Drove over to this location with a tripod and the Tomiyama Seishakusho camera. And that was about an hour after the spill. Fortunately parking was very close here. Some people don't learn
