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Author Topic: trouble with Hilux 152's Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-09-2001 10:38 PM                        I was cleaning out one of these devils tonight and ran across a problem. When I tried to reassemble them, I forgot how they went together, depite the diagram I drew. Also, can you focus these lenses down to about 15 or 20 feet? thanks to all, Josh  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-11-2001 11:24 AM                     Josh, I might be mistaken but I believe those Hilux anamorphs were ordered from the factory for a specific throw. I seem to remember a distance being scribed on the front lens. ------------------ Bob Throop  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-11-2001 12:45 PM                     Which Hilux do you have they made 3 versions for 35mm THey had a gigantic one that was variable that was about 6" diameter that coupled to 4" lens They had the standard Hilux Val that coupled to normal lens And they had the Hilux264 fix squeeze that was usually pink coloured THe front element was scribed with the focus range of the lens (usually about +-10 feet)  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-11-2001 02:46 PM                     Josh, maybe you can send a picture of that lense to Gordon. The lense picture you sent me looks like the standard Hilux. The ones I had were the gigantic ones. I think I already gave them away, but if not and I find them, I'll give them to you to play with. The pink one Gordon talks about is the style I scanned a picture of and sent to you. Grumpy  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-11-2001 08:09 PM                     The Hilux Val was the giant black job that was variable from 0-3x. We used them in a drive in in Utica leaving them in place for both flat and scope. The 152 was a smaller gray unit that was variable from 1.5-2x. Get it? ------------------ Bob Throop  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-12-2001 01:44 AM                        here's what mine look like Josh  |  IP: Logged Stefan Scholz Expert Film Handler Posts: 223 From: Schoenberg, Germany Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-12-2001 02:41 AM                        I remember, some people saying, those are NOLUX devices. The art of how all the light stays within the lens, and nothing comes out of them. I liked the art of making theese large quality prisms, and to a certain extent the "Nolux" with large and thick glass structures is true, but theoriticly prismatic squeeze is superior to cylindrical lens types, at least when theese were manufactured. I still have the pink types somewhere, and I liked them. The lens in front must be a convex lens with the desired projection distance as focal length, as the prismatic trick works only in indefinite distasnce. They do look like ordinary protective glasses but are lenses, actually. The focal length is engraved in the front glass. Most of them were specific to the theatres of the 1950's, so a minimum of 60 - 80 ft generally applies. To get closer, you could actually use 2 lenses infront of the prisms.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-12-2001 12:45 PM                     Josh: We have one of those sitting in the company office as an antique paperweight. Like I had mentioned before they were better suited to auditoria with looooong throws. Aaron  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-12-2001 01:44 PM                     I used to have a pair of the 264's with correction front elements for 10' from an old screening room  |  IP: Logged

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