D Mount 8mm Lens Question

[David]

I picked up a Revere 40 8mm camera with a magazine the other day (I picked it up specifically FOR the magazine, actually.) It has a D mount but no lens. Will any D mount lens work properly on any 8mm camera, in the same fashion that m42 lenses (for example) are interchangeable?

[Gamera]

Strict answer is no.

Bulk of the lenses are standard mount and FFD and will fit most d-mount cine cameras.

There are a few exceptions, at least these:

1. D-mount lenses for some old 9.5 mm cameras. Some had a d-mount but much deeper FFD. Som Berthiot made lenses for Pathé 9.5mm and these lenses are sometimes floating around. There are some other european lens brands too.

2. D-mount lenses for Bolex L8 camera. This camera has shorter FFD than the standard. Kern made some lenses for that camera. I am aware of a 12.5mm yvar and 12.5mm pizar lens.

3. Some reseller-brand triple turret 8mm-cameras from late fifties/early sixties were of non-standard FFD and had usually a set of no-brand lenses with only their focal lengths given. The cameras I know of came from Japan and one of the brands was Crown.


Edit: Changed the focal lengths 13mm ->12.5mm