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RCA camera

    06-Sep-88 00:58:09
Sb: #9738-RCA camera
Fm: Jay Gross 72517,326
To: Betty Clay 74145,657
C mount lenses were q uite common for the 16mm amateur and professional cameras for a long time, and Cmount is still in some use these days on video cameras by a number of manufacturers. It's a screw-thread thingy, not a bayonet. I've been looking for a source of C mount lenses for my own Panasonic WV1410, but I havent had time to get down to serious scrounging yet. You can also buy Cmount to <something else> adapters which will permit using such things as SLR lenses on your WV1410. most of these introduce lens extension, which limits the infinity-focus of the camera, but infinity focus is not a consideration on a copy stand. The king of adapter sources is Spiratone, but I've been busy and haven't had time to chase the artricles down exactrly. Many lenses for those ol' 16mm projectors are Cmount, too, and they're mostlyoptimized for flat-to-flat reproduction, which the Panasonic lens is definitely not. A projection lens is sposes to take flat field things and render them flat on projection. The one on the camera as supplied (to me!) has serious curvature of field and vignetting. I call it the Bluromat.