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gmyers · Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 8

Anybody have a clue what the lens is on this Anny?

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tsgrimm · Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 158 Location: SE Michigan

Les · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI

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.
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pv17vv · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

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 Location: France _ Europe

Canadian Signal Corps used this lens in place to the 127mm during WW2
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Les · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI

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.
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gmyers · Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 8

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.