I was watching the James Bond film “You Only Live Twice” recently, part of which features Bond and Japanese female ally tooling around Tokyo in a Toyota 2000GT (perhaps the rarest Japanese car). It being owned by the Japanese intelligence agency, the car is equipped with cool Bondian gadgets which include a Sony TV embedded in the car body between the two seats, the screen flanked by two lenses that allow spy chief Tiger Tanaka to see what’s going on. In the scene where a helicopter drops a car full of bad guys into the ocean, we get a look the two lenses. One is a Super Takumar 1.4/50 while the other is a Goertz-Takumar 3.5/35 — as the picture is not quite as sharp as it might be, it’s possible that it reads 3.5/30 instead of 3.5/35. Google turns up nothing on a Goertz-Takumar, but I believe that Goertz produced lenses of this focal length, and German involvement with Japanese manufacturers is not unknown.
Of course, this being a movie, not a documentary, artistic license runs amok, so it could be a fake lens. But if the prop team is going to use a stock 50mm Takumar for one lens, why would they go to the trouble to make a fake lens for the other, and cobble together a fake name? I’m wondering if anyone knows whether such a lens could have existed.
Of course, this being a movie, not a documentary, artistic license runs amok, so it could be a fake lens. But if the prop team is going to use a stock 50mm Takumar for one lens, why would they go to the trouble to make a fake lens for the other, and cobble together a fake name? I’m wondering if anyone knows whether such a lens could have existed.