Can you buy widescreen lenses for super 8 cameras?

**Vespasian** · November 21st, 2003, 01:27 AM

I was wondering if you can buy 16:9 lenses for cameras like the Beaulieu 6008, or the Nizo 6080? I am going to buy one of these cameras I just don't know which one yet. I am doing research on both of them. I would like to shoot in widescreen, I am pretty sure you can put widescreen lenses on these cameras but I wanted to make sure, and see where I could purchase a widescreen lense.

I would also like to know about modifications that might have to be done to the camera to put a widescreen lense on the camera.

**Corey D.** · November 21st, 2003, 01:54 AM

I don't know about Beaulieu, but I have a Nizo 6080 and I've been looking for an anamorphic lens for it for a very long time. The lens is 62mm and there aren't many anamorphic lenses that are that big. Actually there is, It's for the Canon Xl1s, which has a lens diameter of 72mm so I know it'd work on the Nizo, but the price is insane, I believe it's around 2 grand.

You could widen the gate.

Good Luck,
Corey

**cameraguy** · November 21st, 2003, 01:21 PM

I've seen a few anamorphic lenses on ebay that would cover the Nizo's 62mm lens BUT they are so huge I can't even imagine how insanely bulky the setup would be. Plus they are always 2x anamorphics meaing your final image would be 2.66 to 1.

**Vespasian** · November 21st, 2003, 06:29 PM

What about the one The Widescreen Centre sells for about $500usd, would that work?

**Vespasian** · November 21st, 2003, 07:40 PM

So I was looking in the manual for the Beaulieu 6008s and I found that Beaulieu used to make a lense for the 6008 and probably the 7008 as well to shoot ultrawide cinemascope with a ratio of 1.5:1 the lense is called the Iscorama in the manual. These lenses will probably be really hard to find though.