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For the 88 and the 88 C the following lenses were available:
Schneider Kinoplan 12.5 mm f 2.7 fixed focus
Rodenstock Ronar 12.5 mm f 1.9 fixed focus
Schneider Xenoplan 13 mm f 1.9 fixed focus
Schneider Xenon 13 mm f 1.5 adjustable
Schneider Xenar 38 mm f 2.8 adjustable
Schneider Cinegon 6.5 mm f 1.9 adjustable
And much later there was the Som Berthiot Pan Cinor zoom lens as well as the tele-auxiliary
lenses: Schneider Longar, Rodenstock Eutalon R, and the wide-angle auxiliary objectives Schnei-
der Curtar, and Rodenstock Ronagon R.
The 88 and the 88 C were the only cameras in the 88 series with interchangeable optics, for after
them the focal length would be extended and shortened by using auxiliary lenses.

In 1954, an 8 mm projector, the Pantalux 8, appeared.
This apparatus, complete with the Bauer blue colour, (the
movie cameras were also blue,) was equipped with a 110
V 500 W projection lamp. It is very easy to operate the
device: the speed is set by turning a button. However the
Pantamat, a tape recorder, is conspicuous by its flexible
steel cable which is connected to the projector, adjusting
its speed, provided the speed regulator is at maximum.
It is not known who it was manufactured by, most proba-
bly by another Bosch subsidiary, Blaupunkt.
A year later, the system was improved with a Barakuda The Pantalux 8 projector
coupling. This system consists of two units: the contactor,
which takes care of converting tape speed into electric impulses, and the receiver, which regulates
the speed of the projector. Thanks to this system the tape-recorder and the projector can be set
apart and you are not tied to the Pantamat. This system was to be further developed with the T 10
projector.
With the 88 B, which appeared in 1954 and was equipped with a
semi-automatic exposure regulation by means of a matched needle, we
get to the popular model of the Bauer cameras. This one is fitted with
a Schneider Xenoplan 13 mm f1.9 fixed focus lens and was soon
followed by the 88 E which was provided with a Schneider Xenoplan
13 mm or a Rodenstock Ronar 12.5 mm f1.9, but in both cases with a
possibility of focusing down to 20 cm.

The auxiliary lenses for other focussing distances are:
Rodenstock Ronagon V wide –angle, Eutalon R 25 mm = 2 x and
Eutalon 37.5 mm = 3 × tele, Schneider Curtar wide angle and Longar
3 × tele.

Bauer 88 B
There are adjustments to the viewfinder for different auxiliary lenses
and even a parallax-finder. It would take more than two years before other models appeared.
Meanwhile an Isco-Anamorphot auxiliary lens with the capability of focusing down to 50 cm was
produced. With the addition of an adapter, this lens can also be used as a projection lens. The
result is a wide-screen picture with an aspect ratio of 2: 1.

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