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Tominon Bellow Lens?
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:42 pm    Post subject: Tominon Bellow Lens? Reply with quote

Is this an unusual set up?

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, maybe just an enlarger lens on a bellows (at least 99% of the enlarger lenses are "flat field" lenses, AFAIK) ...
Nice for macro work (i like my Taylor-Hobson Ental II Wink ) ...

Other advices ?


PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Way too expensive, those can be found for $25


PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 3:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a pretty cool set of bellows! It looks like they are from Minolta, but does anyone know a model number or what they were called?


PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tominon 105mm lenses are usually from Polaroid copiers like the MP-4 etc, optimized for macro and with coverage up to 4x5. Totally wasted on a DSLR.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ludoo wrote:
Tominon 105mm lenses are usually from Polaroid copiers like the MP-4 etc, optimized for macro and with coverage up to 4x5. Totally wasted on a DSLR.


I'm sorry to disagree but the Tominons are quite good for the price they cost and may be used with quite some good results for macro work. I have them all, also listed on my macrolenses site. They only have one drawback since they were designed to be screwed into a shutter, their M40 x 0.75mm thread mount which needs a special ring to convert them to Leica enlarger thread mount (M39).


PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kds315* wrote:
I'm sorry to disagree but the Tominons are quite good for the price they cost and may be used with quite some good results for macro work. I have them all, also listed on my macrolenses site. They only have one drawback since they were designed to be screwed into a shutter, their M40 x 0.75mm thread mount which needs a special ring to convert them to Leica enlarger thread mount (M39).


Well sure they're good, I did not mean wasted as in low quality. I just meant that since they have ample coverage and are reasonably cheap, they are great to convert automatic plastic-lens Polaroids, or to build cheap LF cameras. A DSLR does not need 4x5 coverage. Smile


PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scheimpflug wrote:
That's a pretty cool set of bellows! It looks like they are from Minolta, but does anyone know a model number or what they were called?


Minolta Compact Bellows. Lightweight but remarkably sturdy. No aperture linkage. Nice to use with a Minolta to M42 or M39 adapter.

http://www.pbase.com/pganzel/image/61017815


PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the info. Cool