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Ultra Rare Delrama/Vistascope 1.5x Single Focus Anamorphic Adapters with Clamps in Gabriola, British Columbia for sale

Ultra Rare Delrama/Vistascope 1.5x Single Focus
Ultra Rare Delrama/Vistascope 1.5x Single Focus
$400

This is a bit of a strange listing and I have no idea if anyone in the area has any interest in vintage anamorphic adapters... but who knows.
Up for sale is a pair of prism based 1.5x focus-through (aka single-focus) anamophic adapters originally developed for 16mm and Super16mm film cameras (so they are great for small sensor cameras). I'm selling them together as a package deal and I'm not willing to break them up.
These lenses are extremely rare and back when I was in the depths of anamorphic obsession, it took me years to obtain a couple of copies of this strange and wonderful anamorphot.
These are mostly for anamorphic enthusiasts and people who like images with extremely unique character.
Without diopters, these lenses focus via the taking lens from 4 meters to infinity, but WITH diopters is where these lenses start to really shine.
Even though they are both c16 versions of the lens, their back elements are slightly different sizes, but included are 2 VidAtlantic anamorphic clamps, custom made for these Anamorphics, with 52mm thread to mount to the taking lens.
The lenses are both antiques, and their metal bodies are both a little scuffed, but made of what feels like freaking titanium.
The condition of the optics differs between copies; whereas the Vistascope optics are in near perfect condition (they could probably use a little clean), the Delrama copy has a couple of areas where the silver is flaking from the prism mirrors. Luckily, the lens can be very easily disassembled and you could take the prisms to a mirror repair place and have them scraped and re-silvered (we're talking about a couple of inches of surface area, so not very complicated or expensive if you wanted to repair the one copy that is flaking). Even in it's current state it still works, but it would be back to new quality optics once re-silvered.
1.5x is a great anamorphic squeeze factor for 16:9 sensors and is highly sought after, but rare to find.
I've used these on Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Cameras as well as GH4's along with some achromatic diopters with quite nice results. Because the lenses are prism based anamorphics, the flares and general image characteristics are very unique among the other available anamorphic adapters.


Category:  Photo & Cameras  |  Address:  Gabriola British Columbia

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