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No thanks, I'll pass.

I remember an old theatre back home that was bought by the city, and they built a government office inside. A nice old, nothing special, RCA booth remained upstairs. The guy in charge of the place thought it was worth thousands! He would hear of nothing less than $35,000!

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Originally Gottschalk owned a camera store in L. A. and worked with Jacques Cousteau on the refinement of the aqualung compressed-air regulator (SCUBA) and underwater photography. Even though he eventually sold Panavision, he headed-up the company until his murder in 1982 by a jealous gay lover.

While I didn't work for the company in the Panatar days, I did participate in the development of the Panaflex camera (electronic design) and the super-sharp, low-light level lenses and developed the 1st video-tap and video playback system for "instant dailies" that are now common place.

Those lenses are not worth much today, but they are great for showing different anamorphic ratio films without having a library of lenses. And, as someone pointed out, that VALUABLE mount is as scarce as hen's teeth.

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I don't think Panavision ever made a prismatic camera lens for 35mm but they did make them for 65mm cameras for 1.25 squeeze ratio Ultra Panavison 70 / Camera 65. Ironically the projection attachment for U.P. 70 used conventional cylindrical optics.

Panavision's big advance insofar as maintaining a constant squeeze ratio on close focusing was their invention of counter rotating diopters within the lens.

I think many are going to take exception to your comments about the quality of B&L Scope lenses. Obviously times have changed and optics have gotten better and better but many of the projection attachments were and are excellent.

As for the camera lenses if they are so bad then you might be surprised to learn that no less than Industrial Light and Magic used them to shoot certain 4-perf anamorphic special effects shots. You need look no farther than that fat ILM coffee table book about special effects as they appear in some photos.

As far as B&L camera lenses go they are actually quite good. They do suffer from non-linear squeeze though out their focus range as do Todd-AO 35 and other anamorphics without any diopters built in. Panavision holds the patent there! The thing about the integrated B&L camera lenses was the fact that they did not cause the "anamorphic Mumps" as did the earlier B&L Cinemascope camera attachments(cylindrical and prismatic). The amount of squeeze does vary but never goes to any extreme nor outside a minimum of 2 to 1 compression, or a bit higher at close focus. This was B&L's way to lessen the "Mumps" effect. A bit more than 2 to 1 but never less than 2 to 1 through the focus range. I have a set of B&L camera lenses on E-bay right now that I have shot with and I can attest to the sharpness they are capable of.
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Phil, you don't look old enough to have done that. I'm not doubting you, it's just that you look to be about 24 years old.

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Phil, you don't look old enough to have done that. I'm not doubting you, it's just that you look to be about 24 years old.

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Phil Hill
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http://www.philhill.com/
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