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So I just picked up these two obscure lenses on eBay. One is an Elgeet Cine Navitar 35mm f/2.0 and the other an Elgeet Cine Navitar 8mm f/1.5. From what I could deduce they were made for Fairchild high-speed 16mm cameras, but information on those cameras is scant (all I could find: http://www.alangordon.com/r_filmcam16_3.htm ). The registration (mount to sensor) distance is somewhere in the 36mm area, and the mount's diameter is 35mm minus the flanges. There are 3 flanges and each is notched kind of like an Arri PL mount.
I checked through these two lists of cinema and other lens mounts and the numbers and design don't quite match anything out there:
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/mounts-alphabetical.html
http://www.filmcentre.co.uk/faq_lens_m.htm
I really hope this isn't a mount unique to those Fairchild cameras because I'd have to fashion some sort of adapter myself. Anyone have any ideas? Pictures:
I checked through these two lists of cinema and other lens mounts and the numbers and design don't quite match anything out there:
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/mounts-alphabetical.html
http://www.filmcentre.co.uk/faq_lens_m.htm
I really hope this isn't a mount unique to those Fairchild cameras because I'd have to fashion some sort of adapter myself. Anyone have any ideas? Pictures: