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15-blade 250mm f/4.5 soligor prime??
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:32 pm    Post subject: 15-blade 250mm f/4.5 soligor prime?? Reply with quote

I've got here a 250mm f/4.5 soligor lens, looking at the aperture it has 15 blades, is this really a soligor? Or is it a rebadged lens etc?

It's T-mount, Ive had it for a long time, but never really used it much.. I should test it out.


PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please post a picture...


PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here is side on, it has two aperture controls, one click stops down, which sets minimum aperture, the other one a smooth control down to what you set with the first one



PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks my Takumar 200mm f3.5 (really crap, door stop) I hope this is better.


PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a 200mm f/3.5 that is quite good, M42, Tamron adaptall-1

Anyway this lens isnt good wide open, but here is from f/8, so it's useable, I think it would be good for portraiture on full frame.

f/8, ISO 800, 1/250 sec, +0.5EV in Post.

+some post processing.





PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From F8 ? Shocked Confused door stop too Laughing


PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lol actually I wouldnt mind it that much... its just hard to use, the focus ring turns right, same way as the T-mount undoes, and the focus isn't loose, so the lens spins instead of focusing unless you hold it with two hands at the beginning Razz

I wish Jupiter lenses weren't so damn expensive... lol


PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey !

I'm looking for that for my collection ! I love the old Soligors !

At that time Soligor was a brand name used by an American marketing company, Allied Impex. Later it became the name of a German marketing company. Like Vivitar, Soligor/Allied Impex never made lenses themselves.

The manufacturers of Soligor lenses were varied. Some early ones were Tamrons, including a version of the 250/4.5. But this one is a different version, and doesn't look like the Tamron.

Other Soligors were made by Tokina, including the T4 mount automatic lenses.

Your 250/4.5 looks a lot like my 180/3.5 Soligor, and I have no idea who made either of them. If you weren't in Australia I would be happy to buy it from you.


PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

it says it was made in japan on the lens barrel on this one No. H30448


PostPosted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like a Takumar.


PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Serendipity !

The question of a Kominar 85/1.8 by member kuuan led to research about a Vivitar 85/1.8, that had a very strong family resemblance to my Soligor 180/3.5, and to your 250/4.5. And then there is testimony from member Estudleon about the same lens sold as a Soligor.

So I speculate, of fairly strong grounds, that your 250 and my 180, along with a lot of the Soligor line of preset lenses was probably manufactured by Komine.


PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I bought one very similar, but clearly another lens with "T" in the serial. This must be the real tamron?



PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats the Tamron indeed.