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baby hypergonar cinemascopic brothers 2 of 50 made.
the smallest cutest anamorphic in the world.
50 of these optics where made around 1956 by Henri Chrétien company benoist s.t.o.p paris.
classic hypergonar double element design.
heavily revised and miniaturized by Chrétien at Villa Paradou, Cap Ferrat.
design was fixed position non adjustable focus elements with distance set in the 9-11 feet range.
using taking camera lens focus can improve sharpness under 10 feet as can f stop.
use of an anamorphic achromatic close up lens takes the lens to another level.
these where made for the popular home movie amateur regular 8 (standard 8) film format and french 9.5mm format.
production was cancelled very quickly because of lack of sales and hollywood patent restriction.
chretien's sale of the hypergonar patents and cinemascopic concepts to 20th century fox meant he could only sell these babies at home and a few french colonies and only for amateur use.
the small anamorphic home movie market quickly became dominated by moller and isco of germany who could sell any place in the world with no restrictions.
moller's bolex deal was the deal breaker as bolex was the greatest 8mm and 16mm compact camera maker.
benoist went back to making massive cinemascope projection lens under hollywood license and 16mm spherical cine lens.
these baby optics where found in a basement in the paris in the late 70s and rebuilt sold off cheap in the 1980s for single and super 8 film use.
because of tiny size and modest looks many would have been smashed broken and thrown in the dust bin.
classic reason people thinking that this is a lens.
if you hold this in front of a camera body you get a blur.
so if it is a blur it is broken so these have been dumped by some bozos.
the blur is because this is an adapter system you need a regular camera lens behind the hypergonar called the taking lens.
when used with a + 0.4 or +0.5 tokina close up lens these are pretty sharp
these are very very rare now.
baby hypergonar cinemascopic brothers 2 of 50 made.
the smallest cutest anamorphic in the world.
50 of these optics where made around 1956 by Henri Chrétien company benoist s.t.o.p paris.
classic hypergonar double element design.
heavily revised and miniaturized by Chrétien at Villa Paradou, Cap Ferrat.
design was fixed position non adjustable focus elements with distance set in the 9-11 feet range.
using taking camera lens focus can improve sharpness under 10 feet as can f stop.
use of an anamorphic achromatic close up lens takes the lens to another level.
these where made for the popular home movie amateur regular 8 (standard 8) film format and french 9.5mm format.
production was cancelled very quickly because of lack of sales and hollywood patent restriction.
chretien's sale of the hypergonar patents and cinemascopic concepts to 20th century fox meant he could only sell these babies at home and a few french colonies and only for amateur use.
the small anamorphic home movie market quickly became dominated by moller and isco of germany who could sell any place in the world with no restrictions.
moller's bolex deal was the deal breaker as bolex was the greatest 8mm and 16mm compact camera maker.
benoist went back to making massive cinemascope projection lens under hollywood license and 16mm spherical cine lens.
these baby optics where found in a basement in the paris in the late 70s and rebuilt sold off cheap in the 1980s for single and super 8 film use.
because of tiny size and modest looks many would have been smashed broken and thrown in the dust bin.
classic reason people thinking that this is a lens.
if you hold this in front of a camera body you get a blur.
so if it is a blur it is broken so these have been dumped by some bozos.
the blur is because this is an adapter system you need a regular camera lens behind the hypergonar called the taking lens.
when used with a + 0.4 or +0.5 tokina close up lens these are pretty sharp
these are very very rare now.