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Nordentro
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 Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:54 pm Post subject: Corefield m39 lenses |
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Nordentro wrote:
I picked up these two nice looking lenses. I know they are Enna made, but wonder if anyone have experience with Corefield lenses (both German and British made) ?
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iangreenhalgh1
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
I have one of the British ones, a 4 inch I think, uncoupled M39 mount.
It's awful, perhaps the worst lens I've owned.
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scsambrook wrote:
I had the Enna-made 50mm f2.4 on a Periflex Gold star in the early 1960s. The negs from it were nice and sharp, no doubt about that. Ian's lens would be the 1950s 3-element 100mm Lumar which, perhaps surprisingly in view of his experience, was quite well thought of at the time. Somewhere at home I have an early 50mm f3.5 Lumar . . . I must try to find it.
Ian - is your Lumar clean?
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Nordentro
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Nordentro wrote:
Do you have a picture of the lens? 
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iangreenhalgh1
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
I think mine is the Lumar, yes. I think it's a triplet, not sure how clean it is, been ages since I tried it. I recall that it performed like an uncoated lens with very low contrast, washed out colours, and just wasn't sharp.
However, never rule out the monkey behind the camera as the source of the issue! 
There are also a range of 'Lumax Gold Star' lenses that I think were sold by the same people, those are preset Sankors and pretty good actually, I have 3.5/28 and 3.5/135.
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Nordentro
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Nordentro wrote:
Yes, I have seen a few. I have also seen Corefield lenses with exakta mount, also German made.
Looks like Corefield made the Leica copies and supplied them with lenses from different manufactures like Wray and Enna. And later as a lens distributor with Sankor and Enna lenses...?
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
The Corfield M39 camera was the Periflex, not really a Leica copy as it used a wierd periscope type system rather than a rangefinder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfield_Periflex
http://www.corfield.org/camera/corfield.htm
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philslizzy wrote:
I have the 50mm f2.4 and its a lovely sharp lens. I'd love a camera to use it on.
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kds315* wrote:
It's CORFIELD Lars, guess you need new glasses?? That Zeiss Gigantar seems not to work anymore :har har:
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