Meyer Optik Görlitz Orestegor 300mm f4 P6 adapter, a rarity

landstrykere · Joined: 10 Feb 2018 Posts: 51 Location: Norge

I have bought this one today.
Beautiful lens and I have small accessories for it, like for instance 35mm SLR bodies:

I will use it with M42 cameras, BUT the idea was also to use it with my Kiev-6s. Because I did believe from hasty reads online that the cone with a given SRL body mount (M42, Exakta, whatever) is screwed on what is in fact a P6 mount.

obviously I didn't search in details, because that's what I have when I remove the M42 adapting cone:

but this is a Flektogon P6 and the Kiev-6s I use for it:

the retaining ring taken off the Kiev-6s, The P6 mount has three tabs that do fit the receiving ring on the camera body. The Orestegor doesn't have these tabs. Diameter of the P6 ring is a bit wider also:

so I should have read a bit more online, because I just learn that the Orestegor-300 doesn't come with a native P6 mount, but a custom mount system and will need a P6 adapter.
I didn't bring along my Kiev-6s when I went to pick the lens, but I could have been suspicious because the size of its M42 adapter is clearly longer than the P6-M42 adapter I use sometimes with my P6/bayonet-B lenses:

anyway, the PROBLEM seems now to find an Orestegor_300-P6 adapter. I tried different keywords, and only result I get is ONE (not two, just one) item on Ebay. An the asked price is twice what I paid for the lens ....

quite surprised, because P6 systems are, relatively, quite popular among MF enthusiasts and I had believed this adapter was common....

blotafton · Joined: 08 Aug 2013 Posts: 1552 Location: Sweden

That's a big catch! Like 1

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Bee612 · Joined: 27 Oct 2018 Posts: 2

Hello, I have bought by mistake a primotar 180/3.5 in praktina mount, I simply removed the back cone and bought a macro tube for the pentacon six, then I cut the adapter to the flange, drilled 4 holes on it and fixed, it works perfectly on my pentacon six