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Smallest 35mm Full Frame SLR Lens (classic MF of course)
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:47 pm    Post subject: Smallest 35mm Full Frame SLR Lens (classic MF of course) Reply with quote
Here i am not so much interested in quality of the picture but more in display purpose.

I know of Industar. It looks very ugly though. Weltblick 2.8/55mm is good looking and very small, especialy if you combine it with some VEB CONTAX Smile. One small beauty is Steinheil Munchen Cassar S 2.8/50mm. Here on my Praktica FX:



Please share your knowledge of tiny lenses.


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
E.Ludwig Meritar, Industar 22, (very similar to 50 though) Very Happy


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Asahi Kogaku Takumar 50/3.5, approximatively the same size of the industar 50-2, but heavier (158g vs 68g) and full chrome :



PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Old


New (which can cover a 35mm frame, even though it's "digital only")


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I forgot the Fish Eye Takumar 18/11 :


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
CarbonR wrote:
Asahi Kogaku Takumar 50/3.5, approximatively the same size of the industar 50-2, but heavier (158g vs 68g) and full chrome :



interesting looking background. What lens did you use to take the photo?


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
S-M-C Bellows Takumar 100/4, same star shaped aperture at f/5,6-8 as the Macro Takumar 50/4 (preset model) and Helios 40(-2) Wink


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Many M39 wide angle lenses are quite small, like the Canon Serenar 35mm f/3.5, for example (image from the Canon Camera Museum).



Canon also made a couple of macrophoto lenses, for bellows use only. (Thanks for the reminder, CarbonR!) A 20mm f/3.5 and a 35mm f/2.8. (images from the Mir site)






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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Unbelievable Fish Eye Takumar!


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pancolart wrote:
Unbelievable Fish Eye Takumar!


Unbelievably poor performance as well.

Many of the tessars where quite small.
The 4.5/40 came in a "pancake" version. Sorry I have no picture of my lens to post.
Are you looking simply for a camera/lens combo to display?


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ryan s wrote:
Old


Another image of the old, with the ~2mm bigger Cosinon.


It looks big here, because the ME Super is so small Smile.


The istDS isn't that big either...but the cosinnon looks pretty small here.


PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fish Eye Takumar is new to me! looks almost like pinhole


PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Steinheil Culminar 50mm 2.8 (just like the Cassar, some mm longer perhaps), Super -Takumar 35mm 3.5, Hanimar 35mm preset 3.5, CZJ Tessar 50mm 2.8 chrome preset for Exa and the Industar 50mm 3.5 plus Schneider Xenar 135mm 4.5 for bellows are my small lenses.
For M39LM I have a collapsable Industar 50mm 3.5 as absolute winner.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
All Olympus OM lens consider as small one especially wides, 21mm, 18mm they have 49mm diameter only.


PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Does this count as small?

Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 105mm f/5.6


rear view, mounted on an M39 to Nikon F adapter


oh and, interesting diaphragm


of course, the necessity to have bellows between the 135 camera and the lens does somewhat negate the diminutive aspect


PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Telisar 3.5/35



PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Seems to me there was a superwide Takumar in the 13-15mm range (not the fisheye) that was very tiny, but I don't have one. Smallest 35mm SLR lens that I have, I think, is the 45mm f/2.8 Hexatar shown here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26262745@N08/3087556364/in/set-72157610757987197/

I don't know who made it, and I assume it sucks (don't think I've taken any pictures with it). I don't think it's as short as the 40mm Pentax - it extends 22mm forward from the flange - but that includes a lens hood recess that's 11mm deep, so it could have been very compact if they'd tried.....


PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chris

Very nice. I recently obtained the S version, but I am waiting for an adapter, this seems to have 49mm thread.

Nikkor 45/2.8 P is pretty small.


patrickh


PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
rick_oleson wrote:
Seems to me there was a superwide Takumar in the 13-15mm range (not the fisheye) that was very tiny


The 15/3.5 is far from a pancake Wink


PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
must have been thinking of the fisheye then. in either case, i don't have one

[oh, by the way - i checked out the Hexatar, and it lived up to expectations: it DOES suck]

:)=


PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It might not be the absolute smallest, but it's certainly one of the best lenses around: the 50/3.5 Tessar "discovered" by Orio:


Photo Credit: Orio Memoni

Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wonder what the smallest 135mm lens is for 35mm format?
I just picked up a dinky little Vivitar 135mm f2.8 preset lens with a T mount and a wonderful 15 blade Iris that I think may be a good candidate.
Its only 85mm long and 60mm diameter.


PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DSG wrote:
I wonder what the smallest 135mm lens is for 35mm format?

My candidate Smile

http://forum.mflenses.com/accura-supertel-135-3-2-m42-t15051.html


PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
DSG wrote:
I wonder what the smallest 135mm lens is for 35mm format?
I just picked up a dinky little Vivitar 135mm f2.8 preset lens with a T mount and a wonderful 15 blade Iris that I think may be a good candidate.
Its only 85mm long and 60mm diameter.


There are probably smaller ones, but this is mine:
Pentax SMC M135/3.5 Filter 49mm, Size 63mm x 66mm, Weigth 270g



Sample wide-open:



PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The smallest 135 SLR lens I know of -

Fujita 4.5/135





L-R Steinheil Culminar 4.5/135, Super-Takumar 3.5/135, Tamron 4.5/135, Fujita (Peerotar) 4.5/135
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