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Lumax Gold Star (Sankor) 3.5/28 on NEX-3
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:45 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:45 am
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This is a tiny lens in T-mount. Surprisingly sharp even wide open.

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Last edited by iangreenhalgh1 on Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:07 am; edited 1 time in total


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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:05 am
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Never underestimate a Sankor! Wink
Sankors are good value lenses with nice looks and excellent mechanics.
My all time favorite is the 105mm f/2.5, fantastic IQ and Bokeh, a must have lens IMHO.

Do you have a picture of this lens? Surprised


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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:11 am
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I have the 2.5/105, this lens has the same styling. I will take a picture of it for you.


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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:43 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:43 am
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
This is a tiny lens in T-mount. Surprisingly sharp even wide open.


Hello Ian,

I found a neat little Sankor labeled preset T2 lens 28mm/3.5, but a former owner had apparently lubticated the focusing helical. And remounted the lens wrong; aperture indicator is 90° off. I was curious if it was worth the energy and patience (!) to get it OK again and found your thread. But without any of the pictures. A pity. Disappeared in the latest crash?


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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:52 am
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Hi all, was looking at.a 135mm Lumax earlier on eBay vintage lenses, had no knowledge of this brand before this morning, now 2 hits in 2 hours!


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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:08 am
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I've replaced the pics.

I'd say this is a lens worth fixing, it's plenty sharp enough, images have dimensionality, overall, a very good lens imho.


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Thanks, I see that I'll have to do my best in fixing (however it can be used as it is).
Nice little thing.


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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:52 pm
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Nice work, I love that difficult to describe "classic look".


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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:23 pm
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Cheers, glad to help.

It's a fairly common lens, seen in very many brands, worth grabbing if you see one as it's always very cheap.
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