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  1. Super-duper long shot... but would anyone have a copy of the Nikkor 8mm f/8 fisheye lens service manual? Or has anyone been a repair tech in a previous age, and has worked on one? Thank you! - nkg
  2. Well. I'm not involved with the film. Just somewhat interested. :)
  3. Interestingly, we likely know the lens that was used to film the lipreading sequence. It was a 25-250mm zoom lens; possibly a Cooke Panavision. We don't know the focal length that was used, but it's clear it was fairly long - probably on the long end of the zoom. Also, the pull-out on the zoom wasn't used in the final film.
  4. Howdy. It's taken many years, but I think the evidence is pretty clear now. If you'd like to read further: HAL 9000’s faceplates - The Age of Plastic :)
  5. Hi, all! This is rather late-to-the-party post here, coming as it does 11 years later. But I just thought I'd mention that the Spiratone/Kenko lens was not, in fact, ever used in 2001: a Space Odyssey. The HAL faceplate lens was a commercial lens, and a fisheye at that. But Nikon (Nippon Kogaku Nikkor to be more accurate to the time) 8mm f/8 lenses were actually used. This can be verified through examination of stills taken from the 4K release of the movie - you can't read the lettering around the barrel, but you can make out individual white blobs for each letter or groups of letters. That makes it possible to match the same lettering as seen on an actual Nikon 8mm f/8 lens. In addition, one behind the scenes photo clearly shows a lens with its cap installed, and it's a really unusual cap. Finally, the Kenko lenses were too small in diameter to make sense as a HAL lens, unless the plate were tiny.
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