GH2 Cooke Kinetal lens service in NY?

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Sam Scoggins

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I have an Arriflex Standard Mount to M4/3 adaptor that I've been using to get my Arri lenses onto the GH2. This works great. But the focus on my Cooke Kinetal 25mm T2 seems to be frozen - unless I'm doing something very stupid. Can anyone recommend someone who can service old Kinetals and other Arri mount lenses in the New York City area?
 
Keep in mind that Kinetal lenses in Arri mount have the rear barrel in rotation while focus (not as the others Arri St's who its fixed). May be your adaptor don't run with Kinetal's.
 
Thanks lluis. I have the 9mm, 12.5mm, 25mm, 37.5mm and the 150mm Kinetals. The focus on the 9mm and the 150mm both turn smoothly when mounted via the adaptor on the GH2 and when mounted in my Arri-S. The focus on the 12.5mm, the 25mm and the 37.5mm won't move in either the adaptor or the Arri-S.

Anybody know what's going on? Doesn't seem to be the adaptor. Some on the Internet say some Kinetals are fixed focus - but the focus point is set to different distances on each of the 3 lenses where the focus won't move, so I can't believe that's true.

They are beutiful lenses - would be great to get them all going again on the GH2.
 
Cooke Kinetals fixed focus? Never. The old Arri St 16mm cameras were ready for that. What happens is (the same with the oldest Schneider or Zeiss Arri St mount glasses) in these lenses the rear barrel rotate freely while focusing, guided by the fixed rear pin. If you can move the focus while hold with your hand the rear barrel then it's a modern design (probably like your 9 and 150mm lenses are and, I think, like the M4/3-Arri adaptors are designed). If not, probably, you can't use these particulary lenses in your adaptor.
Years ago I used these Kinetals with Aaton Super 16 movie cameras. The only way was to self made a parficular adaptor for use with that, because the usual Aaton/ArriSt adaptors were not (also) compatible. I find these glasses incredible warm and sharp.
Keep in mind that from the 9mm until at least 25mm included you only could use them with the ETC mode in a GH2.
 
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