Could this big cine projector lens be used today?

[mesinik]

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This is a soviet-era cine projector lens.
These were made in at least 2 sizes and that's the bigger one.
Any 's, could it be useful for something today?




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[kansalliskala]

Do image circle / register distance test: some bright object about 3 meters away in a dim room. Point the lens on that object and put a white paper behind the lens. If you get some usable sort of picture at a reasonable distance, you have kind of a lens. If you want infinity, point it to some distant bright object (not the sun maybe ..).

[Lightshow]

Is it a standard lens? or Anamorphic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format

Do objects get squished when you look through the lens?

If it is Anamorphic, they become much harder to use.

[kds315*]

NO, this is not a projection lens, it is just an anamorphic adapter meant to be used
in front of a projection lens for wide screen projection

[mesinik]

[DConvert]

Unless the glass has become opaque it can be used. It might not be particularly useful but it will still work. It's lenses with electronic focus/aperture that tend to be more difficult to jury rig.

If it's just the anamorphic adapter, holding it in front of a camera lens will give a image stretched in one dimension relative to the dimension at 90° This might allow some interesting experiments, but digital images are easily rescaled to different proportions so I'm not sure if there's anything to gain, but that's never stopped me experimenting with things .
If it includes the projector lens as well, the two can be separated and the projection lens used for imaging. Mounting the lens might be awkward, but I wouldn't expect the registration on a lens that size to be short enough to make infinity focus impossible on a mirrorless camera.
If you already have a suitable camera you can experiment with free lensing - though this can get your sensor rather mucky, unless you rig up something to keep the dust out...