NASA's 80-pound lens adorns your camera



    If you need a lens that looks like a laser gun of a spaceship, then today is your lucky day. In the Film Camera category, eBay has a powerful telescopic lens formerly owned by NASA. With a focal length of 2540 mm and an f / 8 aperture, this Jonel 100 is more likely to be classified as a telescope.

    Actually, the design of the device corresponds to the optical design of the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Through an 80-mm hole, the image is focused in a frame measuring 57x57 mm.



    The description of the lot says that this particular NASA TV set used “by eye” to track how rockets such as Saturn V were lifted. Similar lenses were used to take photographs of space shuttles, including the very same Challenger shuttle that exploded on January 28 1986 at the 73rd second of flight. Many of these optical instruments are still in service at NASA.



    The seller claims that to buy this lens he sold his family home. Well, now he is asking for a modest price of $ 33,500.

    In some pictures of the lot, a Hasselblad medium format camera is attached to the lens.




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