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Russian cinema lenses (OKS-, RO-)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:22 am    Post subject: Russian cinema lenses (OKS-, RO-) Reply with quote

Hi,

can you point me to any useful resources about those Russian / soviet cinema lenses that go by names like OKS (Russian: ОКС) and ROX-YY (РОх-yy)?

Hier and there I could find some useful info but nowhere could find a good overview.
I recently bought the RO4-1M, I like it much and would like more of these lenses.
A couple of examples:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardofdof/47287295772/in/dateposted/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardofdof/47404577851/in/dateposted/

Thank you.


PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:48 am    Post subject: Re: Russian cinema lenses (OKS-, RO-) Reply with quote

wolan wrote:
Hi,

can you point me to any useful resources about those Russian / soviet cinema lenses that go by names like OKS (Russian: ОКС) and ROX-YY (РОх-yy)?

Hier and there I could find some useful info but nowhere could find a good overview.
I recently bought the RO4-1M, I like it much and would like more of these lenses.
A couple of examples:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardofdof/47287295772/in/dateposted/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardofdof/47404577851/in/dateposted/

Thank you.


have you looked at the pdf-s there: (last post)

http://forum.mflenses.com/russian-lenses-and-cameras-t2801,start,25.html


PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This site is a good start : https://nukemall.livejournal.com/53517.html

It's naturely not an exhaustive list, but there are some usefull information and is easy to understand.

RO cine lenses were mainly made by KMZ, whereas OKS were made by Lenkinap, LOOMP and LOMO later. There are some exceptions to this statement. Also there are cine lenses with simply Ж (J), like J-25 (Ж-25) or J-48(Ж-48 ) and others but they are now extremely expensive.


PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BurstMox wrote:
This site is a good start : https://nukemall.livejournal.com/53517.html

It's naturely not an exhaustive list, but there are some usefull information and is easy to understand.

RO cine lenses were mainly made by KMZ, whereas OKS were made by Lenkinap, LOOMP and LOMO later. There are some exceptions to this statement. Also there are cine lenses with simply Ж (J), like J-25 (Ж-25) or J-48(Ж-48 ) and others but they are now extremely expensive.


Thanks Pierre (and kansalliskala).

These are very beautiful lenses. I like their rendering so much, it is somehow cinema-like. Mechanically are they well built and focusing is very smooth. In the center they are rather sharp, borders are so so, so not good for landscape photography.
As I understand it those made by KMZ, that is RO- lenses are generally better. Lenkinap lenses can be nevertheless expensive, recently in Moscow they asked me around $800 for a Lenkinap 100mm f2 lens.

Cheers.