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dfujevec · Joined: 27 Nov 2009 Posts: 43 Location: Slovenia

Here is my version of (M42) Soligor 28mm

visualopsins · Expire: 2027-07-11

Welcome dfujevec! Thank you. Your version is the new #10; making now 18 versions. See http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic,p,1054364.html

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

I found a new code. Very Happy

H4.

We need to find the 28 2.8 version so we can ad it to the 28 2.8 list.

Take a look at this lens and give me an opinion to maker. Top veiw looks like a Komine, but the bottom markings are totally different then Viisualopsins and my lens.

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

Link to the lens on Ebay. Click here to see on Ebay

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

Any ideas of the maker of the 35 2.8? I'd like to add it to my list.Anyone got one like it in any focal length?

luisalegria · Expire: 2018-01-18

Possibly Kawanon.

They also had the O<-.->C ring

Kathmandu · Expire: 2012-04-08

Scheimpflug · Expire: 2011-11-18

Three new ones?

Exakta T2
http://www.rockycameras.com/exakta-t2-soligor-28mm-28-prime-wide-lens-899-11731-p.asp

Miranda
http://www.rockycameras.com/miranda-fit-28mm-28-prime-wide-angle-lens-1499-10897-p.asp

And Walter, you will like this one:

Click here to see on Ebay

SN 89000430. You don't have anything listed in your Soligor Codes yet for 8. Wink

Actually, not even a placeholder for 8. So I assume that 8-code Soligors are pretty rare?

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

Updated list

Soligor Codes

1 = Tokina
2 = Sun
3 = Sun
4 = Sun
5 = ???
6 = Komine
7 = Sun
8 = ???
9 = Kino
31 = ??? *
A = Komura #
H4 = Kawanon ? #
H5 = Komine #
H6 = Komine #
H7= Tokina #
H37 = Kawanon? #
M = ??? #
N = ??? #
R = ??? #
T = Tamron #

Code system. First number = Maker.
Second number = Decade
Third number = Year

*Six digit lens date code unknown.

# Letter code lens date code unknown.

..... DISCLAMER THIS IS A WORKING LIST......
..... IT MAY CHANGE AS NEW EVIDENCE IS FOUND.....

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

I do like it. It's the first 8 code I've seen. I had know idea what series 8 would be in. Now the question is, is it a Sun made lens like some of the later CD lenses, or is it a Tokina made like some of the earlier CD lenses.
Or made by someone else?

I've moved the list to this page. I had been doing updates to it using the edit feature.

Another lens I've never seen is a 5 code lens. I added the placeholder for it.
Also that 9 code lens, I see very few of them come up.

Good job Exclamation

Lloydy · Expire: 2022-01-01

Is this list relevant to other Soligor lenses or just the 28mm ?

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

This list is for all Soligor lenses.I will move a copy to a seperate thread soon to make it easier to find.

Lloydy · Expire: 2022-01-01

Thank's Walter, I guessed it might be for all the lenses but I wanted to be sure.

The lens I mentioned earlier ( chrome eared 135 2.8 ) with the M 163*** serial number isn't covered though, or do you think the M is irrelevant and I should consider it a '1' - Tokina, from 1963 ?

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

I would think the code is either M or M1 or M16. Until more lenses with M come up It's pretty much just a guess.
As for identity. I see a side view on page 2 of this thread. Can you post a front view.

fatdeeman · Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Posts: 780 Location: UK

Lloydy · Expire: 2022-01-01

Soligor 135mm f2.8 with M prefix to serial number. M163924

kansalliskala · Expire: 2016-12-30

Didn't see H5 anywhere here. Seller thinks is is Komine.

walter g · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 2463 Location: NC, USA

kansalliskala
Thank you. I just updated the list, and I agree it does appear to be komine made.

Lloydy
Thank you for posting the pic. I don't think this is Tokina made. This is another mystery lens we haven't identified the maker. I did add M code as a placeholder in the list. Hopefully this lens can be identified.

casualcollector · Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:18 pm

M = Mitake?

Lloydy · Expire: 2022-01-01

Are there any other clues as to who manufactured what?

I suspect that the three chrome eared Soligors I have are all from different manufacturers (all Japanese ), and if the dates are accurate from the serial numbers they were made in 1963, 1969 and 1975, which is quite a long 'production' run for a lens that could be changed cosmetically quite easily because Soligor were outsourcing it, they called the shots.

From the manufacturers on the list, do any have a particular style or trait that can help us figure out who made what?

Phenix jc · Joined: 19 Dec 2009 Posts: 398 Location: France

My sample, for the science...

#07 Tokina Fixed Auto 0.3m 58mm
42, '171', 0.3m, auto, yel

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

visualopsins, can I recommend that all the photos on the first page are saved down and re-uploaded to MFLenses so we don't lose this information once the original hosting sites delete their photos?

Thanks!

visualopsins · Expire: 2027-07-11

symphonic · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 550 Location: SE Europe, Croatia

Although I see the topic says "Soligor 28mm versions", I also see other Soligor lenses posted here, so I'll add this 24/2.5, serial no. 3802519, not much information on the Net.

visualopsins · Expire: 2027-07-11

Thanks symphonic!

According to Soligor serial number information gathered so far, your 24mm was made by Sun in 1980. Fixed Minolta MD mount. It looks very similar to the Spiratone and Vivitar 2.5/24 I have. I played with the Spiratone yesterday; appears to be a performer. 24mm is a favorite focal length on FF for me.

I'm working on putting together a Soligor 2.8/35 versions thread similar to this one, showing versions posted in various threads here on MFlenses, and another thread for various 24mm lenses from the same general era...