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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys, may I please advise to stay away in this thread from such comments.
It doesn't help anyone, usually creates at least discomfort or even strife.

Klaus, the Moderator talking... Wink


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the advice.

Here is a rare Soviet PK mount 50/1.8 lens, and a 'rare' Chinese PK mount 50/1.7 lens. Both are quite good ones that takes excellent images. The Chinese one may not be often seen outside China.



PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This Volna is not very very rare. It was lens for Almaz camera serie, pk mount.
The earliest models has normal marking "LOMO" without those triangles.


PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BurstMox wrote:
This Volna is not very very rare. It was lens for Almaz camera serie, pk mount.
The earliest models has normal marking "LOMO" without those triangles.


Thanks. I also have the camera, an Almaz-103. The Volna brand 50/1.4 lens for that camera may be rare?
I saw an image of an early Kiev 5 with some accessary lenses that seems quite rare. A lens collector said that these are even rare than the Record 4 52/0.9? He owns some quite rare Russian lenses. There are some Soviet and Russian lenses collectors in China.

Has anyone actually owned and tried that huge GOZ 500/F3.5 mirror lens?






PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A Soviet 20mm F3.5 lens for a Kiev 15 SLR. Since the Kiev 15 is quite uncommon, I guess the not often used 20mm lens is quite rare? It seems that a Jupiter-9 85/2 in this mount is also quite rare? I have a 135mm F4 and a 37mm F2.8 lens for thei camera.



PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those Jupiter-9M and Jupiter-12M are very rare, like the Rekord I think.
TOZ-500 was a prototype made by students, if I remember right.
Russar are usualy very rare, but there are many differents russars.

Mir-20 Automat (like Jupiter-9) is not rare at all. It's the cheapest Mir-20, easy to find on the bay.
I have an early one :

Here with J-9 and Mir-1


PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very beautiful lens images! Like 1 Thanks for sharing.


PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chinese Seagull (Haiou) brand 500mm F5 MD mount mirror lens. Mine is defective. The image of the one on a tripod, and an image shot with the lens are brrowed from collector '老刘忙‘。A total of about 1,000 lenses were made. These are not often seen even in China.



PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is an Anamorphotic lens? I only saw an image online. The Chinese anamorphic movie projection lenses are often seen.



PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A lens which compresses one image axis and allows it to expand later (1.3/1.7/2x etc.) to get this format:


( I shot that with an ISCOMORPHOT some years ago...)

Often used in cinemas for wide screen projection

Read about it here: http://forum.mflenses.com/anamorphic-cinema-lens---help-t62773.html


PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the reply and links! So I understand that anamorphic and anamorphotic lenses are the same. The anamorphotic lens shown looks like an attachment lens with a very different lens element. I have a few copies of the anamorphic projection lenses that look much bigger and heavy. Many Chinese photographers used these to take pictues like what you did.


PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A couple of early Soviet lenses. The Helios-44 58/2 for an early Start SLR is quite rare.(The one on the right) I havn't seen another one exactly like it yet. And an uncoated Industar-22 for early Fed-Zorki cameras that perhaps offered for sale once or twice a year only.



PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Auto Yashinon DX 2.8/100mm




..still haven't seen a second one


PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tedat wrote:
Auto Yashinon DX 2.8/100mm




..still haven't seen a second one


This is the first and only one that I have seen.
OH


PostPosted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kievuser wrote:
A couple of early Soviet lenses. The Helios-44 58/2 for an early Start SLR is quite rare.(The one on the right) I havn't seen another one exactly like it yet. And an uncoated Industar-22 for early Fed-Zorki cameras that perhaps offered for sale once or twice a year only.



I see sometime 000xxxx Helios-44 for start, but I never noticed difference with more recent one. Now I see Smile, thanks!


PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oldhand wrote:
Tedat wrote:
Auto Yashinon DX 2.8/100mm


This is the first and only one that I have seen.
OH


before I got it I was pretty sure this lens never was build.. Very Happy


Another lens I haven't seen again:




I know there is the Tele-Tessar 3.5/200mm for Contax and the Tele-Tessar 4/200mm for Rollei, but this is a Tele-Tessar 3.5/200mm for Rollei and not even mentioned on the web.


PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for sharing, and congratualtions! Like 1 You must know the Yashica lens line very well to recognize such a rare piece. I would have no idea how rare it is if I saw it.


PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a rarely seen vintage Chinese SLR with a rarely seen lens. I don't know how many were made, but one in this condition is quite hard to find. Laugh 1 The lens is also very sharp!



PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When hunting rare photographic gears, I also sometimes branched out to something else like Microscopic items. Here are a couple of very rare Chinese polarising microscope objectives made since late 1950's. These are Carl Zeiss Jena copies, or perhaps real CZJ products with a Chinese name as, IMHO, China had no such capability to produce such high-tech items by itself in early 1950's. You can find exactly the same objectives on a Carl Zeiss GFL microscope of 1950's.



PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few more Carl Zeiss Jena objectives. These are infinity corrected dry series lenses for a special microscope with an uncommon M19 mount. The 60X Apochromat one has a NA value of 0.95 that is approching theoretical limit! I heard that these were not very successful products of the company so that they were not made in large numbers. I have limited knowleadge in these professional fields. I could be wrong. However, these could be used as beautiful paper weights nevertheless.





PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My rarest lens (I've never seen another IRL) is my Hartblei Super-Rotator 45mm f3.5 tilt-shift.

It's a marvellous piece of engineering.



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kievuser wrote:
Thanks for sharing, and congratualtions! Like 1 You must know the Yashica lens line very well to recognize such a rare piece. I would have no idea how rare it is if I saw it.


I collect Yashinon DX lenses and this was very hard to find.. fortunately it's not just rare.. it's also excellent. Smile


more common but still rare:


Braun Super Ultralit 2/50 for Paxette


PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Hartblei Super-Rotator 45mm f3.5 tilt-shift looks very impressive. I don't remember ever seen another one.
Like 1 Congrats


PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tedat wrote:
kievuser wrote:
Thanks for sharing, and congratualtions! Like 1 You must know the Yashica lens line very well to recognize such a rare piece. I would have no idea how rare it is if I saw it.


I collect Yashinon DX lenses and this was very hard to find.. fortunately it's not just rare.. it's also excellent. Smile


more common but still rare:


Braun Super Ultralit 2/50 for Paxette


Thanks for sharing! Thank you! Please post more of your Yahshica lenses. These are not as popular as Zeiss or Leitz lenses here in China. But I heard very good opinions about them.


PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had promised a picture of the Vario Tevidon 15-150mm f/2, this one is in its original housing with motors for focus and aperture:


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