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| gmyers Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 8 |  Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:19 am Post subject: Bunker Anny |
| tsgrimm Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 158 | Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:25 am |
| Les Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 | Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:00 pm I'm betting it's a 10" tele lens. Most of Uncle Sam's tele lenses like this came from Wollensak and were thus Tele Optars. A few came from Elgeet. They had the same military designation. |
| pv17vv Joined: 22 Dec 2001 Posts: 255 | Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:32 pm Might be this one, too.  Official SC denomination : LENS PH-277 A bit heavy for hand-held use, experience speaking… |
| willysmb Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 128 | Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:57 pm Canadian Signal Corps used this lens in place to the 127mm during WW2 Emile |
| Les Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 | Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:13 pm You've got a point. The Tele lens acts like a 6" lens, the 10" Kodak is a long lens (non tele) And in the photo he's got the bellows pulled out quite a bit. And I"m assuming this isn't a staged shot, so it may be the 10" Kodak. |
| gmyers Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 8 | Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:47 pm This fellow is from the 7th Combat Camera Unit looking out of a captured bunker on Iwo Jima. This was used as an observation post to film air activities over the island. |
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