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Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by usher99
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120278761035 I have a snipe in for this one but couldn't find out too much about it. Jeff dug up some info on the early Zoomars which were the very first "zooms" created. The origiinal Killfitt designed lenses were individuallly tested and film was not considered flat enough for testing so glass plates were used. The same guy developed the first macro lens. This example must be of later vintage and probably very well made. I wonder if anyone has an opinion or info on this zoomar. Mike ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by chucknorcutt
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I think I'd rather have a lens that produced a curved image field to fit
the film rather than a nice flat glass plate... they've been out of style for a while. :-) Chuck Norcutt usher99@... wrote: > 120278761035 > > > I have a snipe in for this one but couldn't find out too much about it. > Jeff dug up some info on the early Zoomars which were the very first > "zooms" created. The origiinal Killfitt designed lenses were > individuallly tested and film was not considered flat enough for > testing so glass plates were used. The same guy developed the first > macro lens. This example must be of later vintage and probably very > well made. I wonder if anyone has an opinion or info on this zoomar. > > Mike ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by Bob Docherty
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Cool! Thanks for the heads up! I just set a higher snipe :) You're supposed to brag after the fact! To many cut-throats lurking. Good luck, I couldn't really do it now :) Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: <usher99@...> To: <olympus@...> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:47 PM Subject: [OM] Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball > > 120278761035 > The same guy developed the first > macro lens. This example must be of later vintage and probably very > well made. I wonder if anyone has an opinion or info on this zoomar. > > Mike > > ============================================== > List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com > List nannies: olympusadmin@... > ============================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.101 / Virus Database: 270.4.4/1532 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 8:32 AM ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by Sandy Harris
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Some info at: http://www.cameraquest.com/kilzoom.htm ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by Andrew Fildes
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As it happens, by chance, I got to handle a Zoomar this week. The impossibly rare 180mm f1.3 Weight 15lb (7kg), filter size about 260mm, only about 30 ever made. It's yours for just $8,500. With a hand made EOS mount. Happy to broker the deal. :-) Andrew Fildes afildes@... On 04/07/2008, at 9:47 AM, usher99@... wrote: > > 120278761035 > > > I have a snipe in for this one but couldn't find out too much about > it. > Jeff dug up some info on the early Zoomars which were the very first > "zooms" created. The origiinal Killfitt designed lenses were > individuallly tested and film was not considered flat enough for > testing so glass plates were used. The same guy developed the first > macro lens. This example must be of later vintage and probably very > well made. I wonder if anyone has an opinion or info on this zoomar. > > Mike > > ============================================== > List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com > List nannies: olympusadmin@... > ============================================== > ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by John Hudson
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Is this the thing? http://blog.xuite.net/fdchen/lenses/6766463 jh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@...> To: <olympus@...> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:27 AM Subject: [OM] Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball > > As it happens, by chance, I got to handle a Zoomar this week. The > impossibly rare 180mm f1.3 > Weight 15lb (7kg), filter size about 260mm, only about 30 ever made. > It's yours for just $8,500. With a hand made EOS mount. Happy to > broker the deal. :-) > Andrew Fildes > afildes@... > > > > On 04/07/2008, at 9:47 AM, usher99@... wrote: > >> >> 120278761035 >> >> >> I have a snipe in for this one but couldn't find out too much about >> it. >> Jeff dug up some info on the early Zoomars which were the very first >> "zooms" created. The origiinal Killfitt designed lenses were >> individuallly tested and film was not considered flat enough for >> testing so glass plates were used. The same guy developed the first >> macro lens. This example must be of later vintage and probably very >> well made. I wonder if anyone has an opinion or info on this zoomar. >> >> Mike >> >> ============================================== >> List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com >> List nannies: olympusadmin@... >> ============================================== >> > > > > ============================================== > List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com > List nannies: olympusadmin@... > ============================================== > ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by Andrew Fildes
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That's the beast. Better pix here on Steve Gandy's site but no samples - http://www.cameraquest.com/zoomar13.htm Truly weird object. John's is in much better condition than that Chinese one on the Contax. It's in Melbourne - the owner of pro-photog store Camera Exchange, one John Corneille has owned one for about ten years and it was stolen around five years ago when the shop was broken into. He just recovered it - someone put it on Aus, Ebay. The seller claimed that he'd picked it up in a market for a couple of hundred, put it aside thinking it might make an astronomy project and then years later decided to sell. John bought it back at less than the ask of $400. 15lb? It felt like more than that. Seriously unwieldy, a real monster. It's wearing an EOS adapter at present. John clams that it is soft but then he is a large format lover and Leica dealer so he's a bit obsessive. (He's the local Voigt. dealer too). He also claims that it's not a true f1.3 - the physics are wrong. He suggests a total production in a single run of around 30 units and that t didn't really measure up to their specs. It is technically for sale at AU $9,000 but I don't think he'd go through with it. Andrew Fildes afildes@... On 04/07/2008, at 8:38 PM, John Hudson wrote: > > > Is this the thing? > > http://blog.xuite.net/fdchen/lenses/6766463 > > jh > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@...> > To: <olympus@...> > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:27 AM > Subject: [OM] Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball > > >> >> As it happens, by chance, I got to handle a Zoomar this week. The >> impossibly rare 180mm f1.3 >> Weight 15lb (7kg), filter size about 260mm, only about 30 ever made. >> It's yours for just $8,500. With a hand made EOS mount. Happy to >> broker the deal. :-) >> Andrew Fildes >> afildes@... >> >> ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball
by stephan Van den Zegel
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Sadly the one on sale on ebay is not of that breed... the lens that opens the original thread is a voigtlander zoomar of Japanese origin. A fair decent lens constructed probably by cosina when they bought german names (they also produced exacta lenses... I own a wide angle zoom 18-28 on om fit;; and the finish is the same). They were produced before mr Cosina decided to relaunch the voigtländer brand with the Rs and the ltm lenses. So a decent Japanese zoom with a exotic German name... Stephan -----Message d'origine----- De : olympus-owner@... [mailto:olympus-owner@...] De la part de Andrew Fildes Envoyé : vendredi 4 juillet 2008 13:44 À : olympus@... Objet : [OM] Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball That's the beast. Better pix here on Steve Gandy's site but no samples - http://www.cameraquest.com/zoomar13.htm Truly weird object. John's is in much better condition than that Chinese one on the Contax. It's in Melbourne - the owner of pro-photog store Camera Exchange, one John Corneille has owned one for about ten years and it was stolen around five years ago when the shop was broken into. He just recovered it - someone put it on Aus, Ebay. The seller claimed that he'd picked it up in a market for a couple of hundred, put it aside thinking it might make an astronomy project and then years later decided to sell. John bought it back at less than the ask of $400. 15lb? It felt like more than that. Seriously unwieldy, a real monster. It's wearing an EOS adapter at present. John clams that it is soft but then he is a large format lover and Leica dealer so he's a bit obsessive. (He's the local Voigt. dealer too). He also claims that it's not a true f1.3 - the physics are wrong. He suggests a total production in a single run of around 30 units and that t didn't really measure up to their specs. It is technically for sale at AU $9,000 but I don't think he'd go through with it. Andrew Fildes afildes@... On 04/07/2008, at 8:38 PM, John Hudson wrote: > > > Is this the thing? > > http://blog.xuite.net/fdchen/lenses/6766463 > > jh > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@...> > To: <olympus@...> > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:27 AM > Subject: [OM] Re: Zoomar for OM aka what'da think of this oddball > > >> >> As it happens, by chance, I got to handle a Zoomar this week. The >> impossibly rare 180mm f1.3 >> Weight 15lb (7kg), filter size about 260mm, only about 30 ever made. >> It's yours for just $8,500. With a hand made EOS mount. Happy to >> broker the deal. :-) >> Andrew Fildes >> afildes@... >> >> ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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the 4th of July
by John Hudson
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No one has mentioned the 4th of July celebrations. Today marks the start of the biggest show on earth with fireworks and lots of hoopla. ! ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by Andrew Fildes
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Y'reckon? I prefer the 14th myself. Andrew Fildes afildes@... On 04/07/2008, at 11:05 PM, John Hudson wrote: > Today marks the start of the biggest show on earth with fireworks > and lots > of hoopla. ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by AS-25
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Happy 4th everyone!! ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by Andrew Fildes
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Too late - it's the fifth. Whatever the fourth was.... Andrew Fildes afildes@... On 05/07/2008, at 5:29 AM, AS wrote: > > Happy 4th everyone!! ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by Ian Nichols
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2008/7/4 Andrew Fildes <afildes@...>: > > Too late - it's the fifth. > Whatever the fourth was.... Probably not as important as the 5th. US lawyers are always encouraging their clients to take the 5th, aren't they? ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by Andrew Fildes
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Yeah, but I'm never quite sure where they're supposed to take it. On holiday perhaps. Or are they referring to a fifth of something - Scotch perhaps. I'll take that tho' I prefer Irish. Andrew Fildes afildes@... On 05/07/2008, at 8:20 AM, Ian Nichols wrote: > Probably not as important as the 5th. US lawyers are always > encouraging their clients to take the 5th, aren't they? ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by John Hudson
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Andrew.............on the 4th of July George Washington surrendered to the French and gave away Fort Necessity, PA.:-) jh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Nichols" <ian.a.nichols@...> To: <olympus@...> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 7:20 PM Subject: [OM] Re: the 4th of July > > 2008/7/4 Andrew Fildes <afildes@...>: >> >> Too late - it's the fifth. >> Whatever the fourth was.... > > Probably not as important as the 5th. US lawyers are always > encouraging their clients to take the 5th, aren't they? > > ============================================== > List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com > List nannies: olympusadmin@... > ============================================== > ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by montsnmags@gmail.com
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Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Y'reckon? I prefer the 14th myself. I prefer the 13th myself. Cheers, Marc (turning 38) Noosa Heads, Oz ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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Re: the 4th of July
by Chris Barker-3
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I thought that we had agreed that they don't take holidays. Whereas we lazy Europeans are on holiday virtually the whole year round ... Chris On 4 Jul 2008, at 23:29, Andrew Fildes wrote: > > Yeah, but I'm never quite sure where they're supposed to take it. > On holiday perhaps. > Or are they referring to a fifth of something - Scotch perhaps. > I'll take that tho' I prefer Irish. > Andrew Fildes > afildes@... > > > > On 05/07/2008, at 8:20 AM, Ian Nichols wrote: > >> Probably not as important as the 5th. US lawyers are always >> encouraging their clients to take the 5th, aren't they? > ============================================== List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com List nannies: olympusadmin@... ============================================== |
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