{"id":26789,"date":"2014-04-17T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26789"},"modified":"2016-10-26T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:33:34","slug":"varotal-mark-iii-field-lens-the-grandaddy-of-remote-zooms-at-30-pounds-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=26789","title":{"rendered":"Varotal Mark III Field Lens&#8230;The Grandaddy Of Remote Zooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Varotal Mark III Field Lens&#8230;The Grandaddy Of Remote Zooms <\/p>\n<p>At 30 pounds, this is quite a big boy and took a bit of lead weighing on the pan handle to help balance this. I think the lever on the side of the lens is the back focus. Having never seen one of these in action, I think the rear handle is a &#8220;two in one&#8221; demand. I suspect the small silver knob is the focus demand and the arm it&#8217;s mounted on is the zoom demand that the operator would push to zoom in or pull to zoom out on this 10 X 1 lens. <\/p>\n<p>With course gearing, you wouldn&#8217;t have to move the zoom bar much to go from full out to full in. I suspect these came to the market around 1953. Unfortunately, no one knows much about these and the only on I know of that survives is in the care of our friend Chuck Pharis. Have any of you worked with these?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/660534383984114\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Varotal-Mark-III-Field-Lens...The-Grandaddy-Of-Remote-Zooms-At-30-pounds-this\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/660540707316815\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varotal Mark III Field Lens&#8230;The Grandaddy Of Remote Zooms At 30 pounds, this is quite a big boy and took a bit of lead weighing on the pan handle to help balance this. I think the lever on the side of the lens is the back focus. Having never seen one of these in action, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[880,1307,806],"class_list":["post-26789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chuck-pharis","tag-varotal-mark-iii-field-lens","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}