Fisheye for Beaulieu 4008zmII?

Post by **Leon_Trinidad** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:28 pm

Can someone recommend a fisheye lens for my beaulieu 4008zmII? Any c mount lens or another lens with adapter? Thanks.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:45 am

According to David Cheshire's 'The Book of Movie Photography', a company called Karl Heitz manufactured a fisheye lens for the super 8 format. The focal length of this lens is 1.9mm and it has an angle of view of 197 degrees. Unfortunately, I have no idea what type of lens mount it uses. Regard this lens as super rare as I have never come across one, even on Ebay.

Post by **Leon_Trinidad** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:35 am

Thanks for the info Patrick. I watched the skateboard movie "yeah right"and noticed in the slide show segments on the extras a guy had a fisheye on his bolex h16. The shot was from straight on so I couldn't see if he had an adapter to his c mount or if it was a c mount already. I know there has to be something available wheter it's a cmount or an adapter that goes in front of a wide anle lens.

Post by **paulcotto** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:18 am

I always wondered if these nikon digital camera adapters could be adapted for super-8>

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=30067

What do you guys think?

Paul Cotto

Post by **Leon_Trinidad** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:58 am

That looks promising! It also looks like the lens in the pic I saw. I wonder what size screw mount it has and if there is any adapter available to c mount. I will look into this more.

Post by **Leon_Trinidad** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:12 pm

What is the screw mount size of a c-mount? Also what about getting an old 35mm fisheye like a minolta 7.5mm or 16mm and then getting an adapter for it? How would that look? Has anybody on here done that?

Post by BK » Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:11 am

I have a 6mm Cosmicar TV lens combined with a cheapo wide angle converter for a dv camera on my Beaulieu, works well and saved me a few bucks.

Hey Paul, I see no reason why those Nikon adapters wouldn't work, but to be sure just try it out with your camera first if you can before buying.

Bill

Post by **paulcotto** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:21 am

I have a Nikon 880 digital camera that can use these adapters. I almost had one once from eBay a few months ago but the guy sent the wrong lens.. It was a fight to get refunded for it but I won in the end :lol: I will try again as soon as I can afford it. It's an adapter so you would need to find the right combination of thread adapters to make it work with any given lens.

Regards,

Paul Cotto

BK wrote:I have a 6mm Cosmicar TV lens combined with a cheapo wide angle converter for a dv camera on my Beaulieu, works well and saved me a few bucks.

Hey Paul, I see no reason why those Nikon adapters wouldn't work, but to be sure just try it out with your camera first if you can before buying.

Bill

Post by **super8man** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:52 am

I have this fisheye lens...it has a 28mm filter thread. Sooo, its use would be very very limited. It would not fit on any super 8 camera I know of since it is so small. I was thinking it may fit my regular 8mm nikkorex!!

However, my mini-dv JVC GRDVM80 has a 27mm thread so with a 27to28 converter it would work great. Also, I recenlty got a Sony 2X teleconverter in the 37mm size so I also bought a 27-37 for that camera and a 28-37 for my coolpix 950. Try B&H Photo for adapters.

Good luck.
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Post by **paulcotto** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 6:18 am

I was thinking of the prime lenses on my DS8 bolex or a c mount lens on the Beaulieu.

Regards,
Paul Cotto

super8man wrote:I have this fisheye lens...it has a 28mm filter thread. Sooo, its use would be very very limited. It would not fit on any super 8 camera I know of since it is so small. I was thinking it may fit my regular 8mm nikkorex!!

However, my mini-dv JVC GRDVM80 has a 27mm thread so with a 27to28 converter it would work great. Also, I recenlty got a Sony 2X teleconverter in the 37mm size so I also bought a 27-37 for that camera and a 28-37 for my coolpix 950. Try B&H Photo for adapters.

Good luck.
m

Post by **Skylab001** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:07 am

I use a cosmicar 6mm prime with a Kenko Pro .5 wide angle attachment. this produces sweet results with my 6008

Post by **Leon_Trinidad** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:28 pm

What is the filter size of the Cosmicar 6mm? Just curious to see what different kinds of adapters are available. Thanks for all the input also.

Post by **Skylab001** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:55 am

filter size is 40.5 then I bump up to a 52

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