Rare Vintage Kodak Aero Ektar 7\" f/2.5 huge 1944 -WW2 bomber camera lens👀 For Sale

Up for sale from, This Extremely Rare Vintage all Original Kodak Aero Ektar 7\" f/2.5 huge 1944 -WW2 bomber camera reconnaissance lens. I recently obtained this vintage lens at an private estate sale in Raleigh NC. The original owner was a inventor with over 300 Original patents. And was very wealthy. I’m not sure how it works? So please study pictures for condition details. Just needs to be cleaned up, may show wear due to age. It’s has hand engraved letters and numbers on it EE2942, EE means it was made in used in 1944 by the military. There’s another set of numbers letters B,F1234? Not sure what that means maybe the B52 bomber it was mounted on? Back during WW2 the military bought these for $800 each, upon research, great piece of photographer and American WW2 War history, great for any collection.

THE HISTORY OF THESE.......

Apart from the fact that it sure looks good, it\'s quite exciting to take pictures with this extreme Graflex machine, once loved by press photographers all over the world, now powered by a second world war Kodak Aero Ektar reconnaissance lens. This is the so called David Burnett Combo as a salute to the world famous prize winning photographer who uses this heavy beauty, to create his breath taking pictures, which many of them already have been published by leading American and international magazines.

A bit of history...

The Kodak Aero Ektar during WW II

It all began after the end of World War II. These lenses served during the war in reconnaissance missions, mounted in the huge Graflex K-21 cameras to photograph the world, or what was left of it, after the Flying Fortress, such as the B17, had visited the theatre of war: Battle fields, towns, industrial and other strategic targets. Originally made for military purposes by Kodak and sold to the US ministry of defence for about US $ 800 a piece, as much money as a Chevrolet would have cost in those days. After World War II, these lenses where sold as a bargain for about 79 US $ to professional photographers mainly for use in their studios as a portrait lens. The Kodak Aero lens was rediscovered by David Burnett, who felt the artistic challenge using this \"hawk eye\" for his Speed Graphic camera, thus creating the superb artistic device for use in his world of photojournalism.

He produced perfect exposures of politicians on campaign as well as sportsmen as they were doing their greatest performances on the Olympic games. Great photographers from all over the world, try to gain the knowledge of this magnificent way of creative artistic photography, by trying to purchase this lens as well as a 4x5 inch Speed Graphic camera. However, it is not done by that alone. The technique, needed to create these superb photos is more than one can imagine, not having ever worked intensively with these huge cameras. ound on .

This Kodak Aero lens features a minimum aperture of f/16 and a maximum aperture of f/2.5, allowing the photographer to capture quality images under a wide variety of lighting conditions. With its fixed focal length of 178 mm, this Kodak camera lens is great for capturing a single distant subject and featuring it prominently in the image. This Kodak Aero Ektar is an extremely tightly focused lens, meaning that in close focus situations the depth of field can be measured in millimetres. Beside that the Kodak Aero Ektar 178 mm f/2.5 lens features 16 diaphragm blades, necessary to maximize the roundness of the aperture opening and thus minimize rays coming from a light source or reflections. This allows photographers using this 178 mm f/2.5 lens to be extremely detailed with what they focus on most.