Elgeet 3.7mm f/1.5 Wide Angle Navitar B Mount Camera Lens RARE

Description: ELGEET ULTRA WIDE ANGLE NAVITAR LENS 16mm Cine Format Bayonet Mount 3.7mm Super Fast f:1.5 Elgeet Optical Company was active in the mid-20th century, particularly known for their wide-angle and cine lenses. The production of lenses like the 3.7mm f/1.5 Ultra Wide Angle Navitar likely falls within this period, possibly around the 1950s to 1960s. The Elgeet Optical Company was founded in 1946 by David Goldstein in Rochester. Among its first products were lenses for naval tracking, giving the company's lens brand name Navitar. Most known photographic lenses of Elgeet were for movie cameras. Elgeet advertised itself as "Makers of the World’s Finest Lenses". Since 1993 the company is named Navitar. The Elgeet Optical Company was founded by three young men who had been boyhood friends: Mortimer A. London, then a lens inspector at Kodak, with David L. Goldstein and Peter Terbuska of Ilex. (The firm's name is an acronym of L, G. and T). In 1946 they began by leasing some machine tools to make lens-polishing machinery, and with this they set up shop in an Atlantic Avenue loft, where they did all their own lens manufacture, packaging, and selling. By 1952 the firm had grown sufficiently to enable them to purchase a former clothing plant at 838 Smith Street. At that time Goldstein was president, Terbuska was secretary, and London treasurer. The company prospered and with nearly 300 employees they manufactured thousands of lenses for small movie cameras and many other applications. One original owner. It is in excellent used condition. Clean Glass, Nice Coatings, great lens in all ways.

Price: 2000 USD

Location: Miami, Florida

End Time: 2024-09-29T03:39:22.000Z

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