Hydrorussar-3

A sample of advanced technology.
Calculated and constructed by the Leningrad Institute Tochnoi Mechanik i Optik -One year before the 21mm Biogon seen as the extreme available wide angle up to 1969, 17 years before the lauching of the 15mm Hologon. (of much more difficult production -and no diaphragm) and 45 years before the now commom Heliar 15mm of Japanese construction, Russians built their 14,5mm wide angle for underwater or air use.- an astonishing 120єpicture taking- in 1953!
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Any idea who made the enclosure boxes to use with this lens? Is it also Alexander Massarski (Krab, Akvakon)?

Thanks,

Vlad.

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Originally posted by Vlad
Any idea who made the enclosure boxes to use with this lens?

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About this lenses see the page http://www.photohistory.ru/Hydralens.html

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Originally posted by Vlad
Is it also Alexander Massarski (Krab, Akvakon)?

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You think that only A.S. Massarski was in the USSR, who made this underwater equipment? ;)
Btw. his site: http://www.massarsky.spb.ru/

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Thanks for that Massarski site!! It's great! Didn't know he had one. No I don't think only Massarski made underwater stuff, but I know he did most of them. :) Would not be surprised if he did do the Gidrorussar enclosure to work with this lens too that why I asked. I know Bill (nightphoto) will also love this link to Massarski site if he does not know about it already, he's a huge fan.

Cheers,
Vlad

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Originally posted by Vlad
...but I know he did most of them.

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No, of course... He designed some boxes to a LOMO-made cameras and underwater equipment to a movie cameras, including a professional ones.
Wait some time... Just now G. Abramov is preparing a page about the Soviet underwater boxes ( http://www.photohistory.ru )...

An interesting article about underwater boxes can be found at:
http://lpi.rshu.ru/docs/dzus_majer1964.pdf Where thy tellabout an universal case for various Russian cameras.
LP