Kodak cine lenses

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This article focuses mainly on Kodak's 16 mm cine lenses for interchangeable lens cameras.

Kodak launched the 16 mm motion picture film format in 1923[1], and that year introduced its first motion picture camera, the Cine-Kodak. The 1925 Cine-Kodak Model B gained a lens release lever in 1928[2], but only two lenses were available for it. The Cine-Kodak Model BB and Cine-Kodak Model K were Kodak's first cine cameras with a variety of available lenses.

Kodak cine lens mounts

Kodak Type J mount

  • Cine-Kodak Model BB f1.9 (1929-1932) (not the BB f3.5 or BB Junior)
  • Ciné-Kodak Model K (1930-1946)[2]

Kodak Type P mount

  • Cine-Kodak Special (1933-1948)[1]

Kodak Type M mount

  • Magazine Cine-Kodak (1936-1945)[2]
  • Cine-Kodak Magazine 16 (1945-1950)[2]
  • Cine-Kodak Royal Magazine (1950-1967)[2]

Kodak Type S mount

The Kodak Type S mount was Kodak's universal cine lens mount, adaptable to nearly all of Kodak's interchangeable lens cine cameras (types J, P, M, C, and D). Type S lenses were introduced in the mid 1930s, sometime after the Cine-Kodak Special and more than a decade before Kodak's first and only camera with a Type S mount: the Cine-Kodak Special II. Nearly all of Kodak's cine lenses from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were available in the Type S mount, and there were many more Kodak lenses in Type S mount than in any other mount.

  • Cine-Kodak Special II (1948-1961)[1]

C-mount

  • Ciné-Kodak Model E (1937-1946)[3]
  • Cine-Kodak K-100 (single lens) (1955-)
  • Cine-Kodak K-100 Turret Camera (1956-)

8mm

Type M mount

  • Ciné-Kodak Eight Model 60[4]
  • Magazine Ciné-Kodak Eight[4]
  • Magazine Cine-Kodak Eight model 90 (1940-1955)[2]

D-mount (8 mm)

  • Cine-Kodak Reliant


Kodak 8 mm cine lenses

Ciné-Kodak Eight Model 60

Magazine Ciné-Kodak Eight

D-mount

  • Cine Ektanon 13 mm f/2.7
  • Cine Ektanon 38 mm f/2.8


Kodak 16 mm cine lenses

Kodak Anastigmat

'Anastigmat' was Kodak's name for most of its better lenses made in the 1920s and 1930s. The name was used generically by many lens manufacturers to indicate correction for astigmatism. Some of Kodak's smaller aperture, longer focal length cine lenses carried the name 'Cine-Kodak Telephoto' instead of Anastigmat, but all indications are that the lenses were of the same general type and quality. Around 1940, Kodak started marking all lens barrels with focal lengths in millimeters.

  • Observed dates of manufacture for Type S lenses: 1936-1948 (have you seen older or newer examples?)


  • Anastigmat 15 mm f/2.7
  • Anastigmat 20 mm f/3.5 fixed focus, C-mount for the Cine-Kodak Model E
  • Anastigmat 25 mm f/1.9. Four air spaced elements. U.S. patent 1620337
  • Anastigmat 2 in. (50 mm) f/3.5
  • Anastigmat 50 mm f/1.6
  • Anastigmat 2-1/2 in (63 mm) f/2.7
  • Telephoto 3 in. (76 mm) f/4.5
  • Anastigmat 78 mm f/4.5 in Type J, or for the late model interchangeable Cine-Kodak Model B (1928-1931)[2]
  • Anastigmat 4 in. (102 mm) f/2.7
  • Telephoto 4-1/2 in. (114 mm) f/4.5
  • Telephoto 6 in. (152 mm) f/4.5. Four elements in two groups. U.S. patent 1897896

Kodak Cine Ektanon

Kodak mostly stopped using the Anastigmat name in 1948 or 1949. At that time several Anastigmat lenses were renamed to Ektanon, and the other Anastigmats were likely discontinued. Kodak used the Ektanon name for mid-level consumer products.

  • Observed dates of manufacture for Type S lenses: 1949-1954 (have you seen older or newer examples?)
  • Cine Ektanon 15 mm f/2.7
  • Cine Ektanon 38 mm f/2.5
  • Cine Ektanon 50 mm f/1.6
  • Cine Ektanon 63 mm f/2.7
  • Cine Ektanon 102 mm f/2.7
  • Cine Ektanon 152 mm f/4.5

Kodak Cine Ektar

Starting in the 1930s, Kodak used the Ektar name for a new line of its best lenses. Cine Ektar lenses were new designs, generally superior to the Anastigmat lenses, both optically and mechanically.

  • Observed dates of manufacture for Type S lenses: 1945-1964 (have you seen older or newer examples?)


  • Cine Ektar 15mm f/2.5
  • Cine Ektar 25 mm f/1.9
  • Cine Ektar 25 mm f/1.4
  • Cine Ektar 25 mm to 15 mm converter (for the 25 mm f/1.4 Cine Ektar)
  • Cine Ektar II 25 mm f/1.9 (1952-1956)
  • Cine Ektar II 25 mm f/1.4 (1953-1963)
  • Cine Ektar 40 mm f/1.6
  • Cine Ektar 50 mm f/1.9
  • Cine Ektar 63 mm f/2.0
  • Cine Ektar 102 mm f/2.7
  • Cine Ektar 152 mm f/4.0

Lens coatings

In the early or mid 1940s Kodak started coating some cine lens surfaces with a single hard layer of magnesium fluoride. By 1945 or 1946, most Kodak cine lens surfaces were coated, and starting around 1947 Kodak used the name "Lumenized" in cine lens packaging and literature to indicate that all lens surfaces were coated. Lumenized lenses are marked with a small "L" in a circle on the lens barrel. Kodak's 1930s cine lenses are uncoated, and Kodak is not thought to have used calcium fluoride (soft) coatings on its cine lenses.

Lens serial numbers

Starting sometime in 1940, all Kodak 16 mm cine lenses had serial numbers starting with a 2-letter code indicating the date. For lenses manufactured in the U.S. (which all of Kodak's cine lenses apparently were), the code is derived from the sequence of letters in the word "CAMEROSITY".

Adapters

Kodak made adapters from Type S mount lenses to many of its cameras: types J, P, M, C, and D. The adapters for type J and P cameras have an attached viewfinder lens and/or masks to match the angles of view of specific focal length lenses.

Elgeet made a type S to C-mount adapter.

Guangzhou Yeenon makes a Type S to L39 adapter

3rd-party lenses

in Kodak cine mounts


Kodak Type M mount

  • Kinotar (Ichizuka/Cosmicar) 6.5 mm f/1.9 (8 mm)
  • P.ANGENIEUX 25 mm f/1.4

Kodak Type S mount

  • Elgeet Cine Navitar 13 mm f/1.5
  • Elgeet Cine Navitar 75 mm f/1.9
  • Zoomar 16 1 inch to 3 inch f/2.8. U.S. patent 2454686


Notes

See also:

References:

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 16 mm Camera Information at kodak.com
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Kodak movie cameras at movie-camera.it
  3. The Collection at trickphotography-la.com
  4. 4.0 4.1 Ciné-Kodak brochure 1940