150mm Foyer Apochromat Kinoptik f/2.5 cine lens.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1932 - 1939
Materials
Glass, Brass
Measurements
218 mm (Length); 87 mm (Diameter)
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525257
Summary
150mm Foyer Apochromat Kinoptik f/2.5 cine lens. Serial No. 4282. Made in Paris. The mount is brass and it has an iris diaphragm stopping down to f22.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986