Hi,

Here is a collection of my Chinese military binoculars. Most were Carl Zeiss Jena binoculars made for Chinese PLA. Some were WWII Soviet binolualrs mysteriously found their way to Chinese PLA.

The locally made Type-98 8X infrared filter binocular might still be a copy of something. But it offers the best performance. It has a wider angle of view than other 8X power binoculars, and it is very bright and sharp.
China also made Zeiss Binoctar 7X50 copies and other Zeiss model copies.

Cheers,

Zhang

 

 

 

 

I have a thick skin face , so I will post more FYI.

These are the filters for that MF 1000mm F8 mirror lens packed in a well made metal case. I don't understand why that tripod support has that needle, and how to use it.

 

 

This 2x teleconverter in Arri standard mount is a very rare bird. I think even Zeiss doesn't make many of them. When it is coupled to a cine lens, it enlarges the image field, so a 35mm sine lens could cover a 135mm frame. The final image quality is usually very good due to the very high quality of cine primes.
Most cine lenses are very fast such as this 50mm T1.4(f1.3) corrected for wide open. This make the 2x teleconver a quite usable item

 

 

IMHO, watches are less interesting than cameras. We, comrades, would prefer tools to jewels. Still this 1958 Shanghai watch fascinates me.

 

 

 

 

Some more exotic lenses. I am not sure of their original applications, but they all have a focusing ring except the DONG FENG 50mm 1:2. The big gray one at the back is a zoom lens with a focal length of 17-90mm, 1:2.2. It looks like a 16mm cine lens

 

 

Someone got the tip, and converted those 35mm cine wide angle optics to Leica M or LTM mount. Here is a listing at the flea market that is already ended. You can see some sample images with this 9.8mm lens on a RD-1.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kinoptik-Tegea-1...QQcmdZViewItem

But the seller said that those optics were very expensive in the 1970's. I won't tell you how much I paid for mine

 

I bought these 35mm cine primes very cheap. The sellers didn't know what they could do with these strange lenses.

Here is a gathering of my 35mm cine primes most made by Beijing Nr.608 factory. Beijing Nr.608 is a major cine optics producer. They offered a complete line with 20 primes and 3 zooms for 35mm movie cameras, and some more for 16mm cine cameras. The longest focul length is a 2000mm F10 prime, it is a 3 element, 3 group optic that weights 35 KGs! The model name is 35JS 2000. However, the most impressive 35mm cine zoom was made by Changchun Nr.2 Optical Instrument Factory. It was a JS35-30X 25-750 F3.5 lens that weights 5.5 Kgs.

There are 20mm F2, 35mm F1.28, 50mm F1.3, 50mm F1.8, and a rare 2x teleconverter in the image. They will all find happiness with an Epson RD-1.

There are also 5 working Shanghai 58-2 of various versions from my collection.

Cheers

 

Well, it is better to scan a table of Nr.608 factory's products. These are 35mm and 16mm Changcheng (Great Wall) brand cine optics offered by this factory. But I heard that now this factory is defunct. What a pity.
There were a few other factories that made cine products in China.

I found this table from a Chinese book for photographic lenses

 

 

Here a bunch of Chinese movie lenses of my collection

 

 

Now here is something that maybe interesting to military equipment fans or astronomers. This is a lens that was removed from an obsolete Chinese missile tracking system. This is a high power telescope with sharp image quality. It has no marks or any information about who made it, the focal length, S/N, etc. It also has the military equipment build quality, and it is extremely heavy

 

 

 

I heard that it is from a missile tracking vehicle. Here is an image of a US missile tracking system currently listed on Ebay. Without the lens, the rest is useless. Combined with my Zeiss 8X eyepiece, this lens could produce larger and sharper image. That US tracking system could track a rocket all the way from the Earth to the Moon.

 

 

 

 

 

This lens also has a huge lens cap that was machined from a solid piece of metal. I also made a DIY eyepiece holder so that I could try various eyepieces for optimum performance.

 

 

 

 

am not an expert for those things, futures, stocks. I lost heavily on Chinese stocks. It was a Lantian stock that was a hoax to suck money from unwary investors. And the court refuses to handle cases like this. It is really very bad!

I think I may try to catch an UFO image with this tracking lens at home, or peep into others' private life. No I won't do it.

 

A 500mm F4.5 MD mount lens made in the early 1980's by Changchun Nr. Optical Research Institute. A few of these were made. I missed one last year. This one is not mine.

 

 

 

There is also a 1500mm F11 lens for a JSH-136 military camera, and a 900mm F9 for a DWY-2 camera developed by Changchun Nr.4 research institute.

I have seen a few times the Russian 300/2.8 lens and the Pentacon 500/5.6 for RMB 4,500-6,000 in Beijing.

I am not sure of the focal length of that tracking lens. It must be at least 2000mm or more. With a Russian Tourist eyepiece, I can read a newspaper 200 meters away.

 

I used to have the 300mm F4, but sold it. I have a black version 180/2.8 Sonnar. That IS a superb lens. Now I still have a 50/4,65/2.8,120/2.8,180/2.8 and a Russian P6 mount 2X teleconverter. I like the 65/2.8 Flektogon. It is much lighter than the 50/4. Now people in China began to appreciate those East German optics. I always use a 35/2.4 Zeiss Flektogon on my 300D for close-up shots.

I am not sure if that 1500/11 is a mirror lens. A guy offered to sell that 500mm F4.5 lens for a mere RMB 1,500 last year, but he withdrew the auction

Yes, I have been collecting vintage Chinese watches since last summer, and posted many images on that site. I am also one of the moderators on the only English on-line forum for mechanical Chinese watches.

Will, many people are viewing this thread. These unknown Chinese optical products are very interesting.

 

 

 

 

more on the 550mm mirror lens, the last one is a 500mm f/6.3

 

 

 

 

 

A Chinese 35mm Seagull brand ZQ 6-35, 360 degree swing camera. It is electric operated. I found the images from a Chinese cameras site. No details were provided.

 

 

 

 

Lanjian, an older version of the same camera type was pictured in a shop by  Douglas St.Denny.

 

 

Another version of panoramic cameras is the Sao Mao Lanjian SM950.

This camera is a direct descendent of the wooden Al-Vista Panoramic of the very early 1900 years but has its shutter and finder identical to the

Kodak Panoramic of the same era.

It swings its lens  in order to give 120° panoramic 8x29 pictures on special 80mm film similar to the old 122/126 type.

Plastic bodied and 6.3/130mm fixed focus lens. Two equivalent shutter speeds; 1/50 and 1/100s

 

 

 

Another Version in different colour finish is seen here from an auction some time ago:

 

 

Fotoman 617, 612 from ShenZhen.

I handled one in Guangzhou before, I rather like it, very very soild.

Well, maybe when they have a 6x9 (like a Alpa), and I am free to shoot more....

 

 

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