Astronar lens? Anybody please help me.

[KhanX]

Hi everybody,

I've just bought Astronar 90-205mm f6.3 from ebay and test some pics. The bokeh stunt me for a while. I like it.

So could I ask some questions that who know the lens.

Thank you very much.
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[luisalegria]

A picture would be useful.

My first guess would be that its a merchants brand of the first model Tamron zoom lens -

http://forum.mflenses.com/tamron-95-205-6-3-the-ford-model-t-of-zooms-t9869,highlight,tamron+zoom.html

Astranar was a distributors brand of the 1950's-1960's, they sold some Japanese makes and also some by Piesker (Germany). Tamron used to be sold sometimes through distributors in those days, as a Soligor, Taika, Aetna, Hanimex, Vernon, etc., so why not Astranar.
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[KhanX]