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Part of which unknown lens?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:52 pm    Post subject: Part of which unknown lens? Reply with quote

This part has a mirror at the bottom, facing inside the lens.
On the other side of the mirror there is an inscription:
FAX ROKKOR F4.5/150mm






PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is not a part of a lens, but the complete lens.
With the mirror the image is reflected back through the lens, and so the lens is kind of doubled!


PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ZoneV wrote:
This is not a part of a lens, but the complete lens.
With the mirror the image is reflected back through the lens, and so the lens is kind of doubled!


i don`t believe this is complete lens

Maybe this is part of a mirror lens?


PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As far as I can tell, it was never designed for photography, but is a technical lens used possibly in scanning, I don't know if the mirror part is removable.
It is most definitely not from a photography "mirror lens".


PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know what is FAX machine? Old technology for sending documents over phone land lines. Look in wikipedia.

The lens is from FAX machine. In first photo I would unscrew that ring -- the mirror might be removed. If so, you will have a 4.5/150 for use with bellows.


PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The mirror was probably for setting the focus in the machine, then removed for use.


PostPosted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Applied Photographics Optics" by Sidney F. Ray:
p.378 / 41.3.1 Electrophotography
"..A novel approach in office copiers is the use of a catdioprtric lenses formed from one half of a symmetrical lens plus a miror. The symmetry of the optical layout allows the half-lens to have a dual imaging role, and costs are reduced."

For such applications is is possible to make very simple lenses. Only the half of a lens needed -> half cost for lenses and manufacturing + a plane surface mirror.
For pure refractive work without the mirror the lens will be bad - relative to that what it is with the mirror and use of designed distances.