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nemesis101
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 Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:18 am Post subject: Mystery Lens - Anyone Recognise Please? |
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nemesis101 wrote:
This is a mystery to me - it's a Canon FD fit - but other than that? I do not even remember buying / being gifted it!
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Unusually, there is nothing written on the lens inner bezel at all, the only script is around the outside rim...
Thanks!
Doug
PS First pic taken with trusty Adaptall-2 SP 35-80... My favourite lens bar none!
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kansalliskala
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: Re: Mystery Lens - Anyone Recognise Please? |
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kansalliskala wrote:
| nemesis101 wrote: |
This is a mystery to me - it's a Canon FD fit - but other than that? I do not even remember buying / being gifted it!
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Does it have any strange qualities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objects_from_The_Lost_Room
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Xpres
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Xpres wrote:
Could be a Komura -
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject: Re: Mystery Lens - Anyone Recognise Please? |
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nemesis101 wrote:
Aha!
At last a simple and straightforward explanation of the phenomenon! lol
Now which of these destructible / indestructible objects might it be?
Doug
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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Gurdie wrote:
I think your lens is a Prinz Auto Zoom Rexatar.
See
http://cgi.ebay.it/Prinz-Auto-Zoom-Rexatar-Lens-F-4-5-85-210_W0QQitemZ7508049452QQihZ006QQcategoryZ4688QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: Not so sure...? |
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nemesis101 wrote:
Hmm two points..
It is tantalizingly similar - but the centre section has only a single grip-band, and it is considerably different in proportion to the one posited?
They may be kissing cousins but mine would not have enough room for the two centre grips shown in this exemplar..
And the second point - Prinz was, I believe a marketing device for the Dixons chain in the UK and maybe elsewhere - they did not make their own lenses any more than Vivitar did? So the mystery remains, but thanks anyway!
Doug.
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luisalegria
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:43 am Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
The Rexatar looks like it may be a Sun. 85-210/4.8 was a common Sun two-touch preset (and some with integrated "automatic" pistol-grip) that they sold a heck of a lot of in the late 1960's-70's. It was replaced with an auto version that was f/4.5 in the 1970's, one of those "space-age" looking things. The Sun zooms were sold by various merchants, often found as Aetna Rokunar, with a less extreme look and often a fixed mount instead of a YS.
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:31 am Post subject: |
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nemesis101 wrote:
Hang on,
Now you are finding alternative origins for the lens that looks similar, but is not. mine! lol
Get your own threead
Now... what is MINE?
Doug.
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| The Rexatar looks like it may be a Sun. 85-210/4.8 was a common Sun two-touch preset (and some with integrated "automatic" pistol-grip) that they sold a heck of a lot of in the late 1960's-70's. It was replaced with an auto version that was f/4.5 in the 1970's, one of those "space-age" looking things. The Sun zooms were sold by various merchants, often found as Aetna Rokunar, with a less extreme look and often a fixed mount instead of a YS. |
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Big Dawg
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Big Dawg wrote:
??Early Viv made by Olympus????
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:20 am Post subject: The Plot Thickens... |
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nemesis101 wrote:
Hmm
This is the same lens - apparently the seller did not know who made theirs either! lol
Click here to see on Ebay
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:22 am Post subject: Answer? |
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nemesis101 wrote:
This seems to be it (with a few minor colour differences on the markings)
However it is marked Quantaray and they made nothing... so actual manufacturer still moot?
Doug.
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:23 am Post subject: The Plot Thickens... |
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nemesis101 wrote:
Hmm
This is the same lens - apparently the seller did not know who made theirs either! lol
Click here to see on Ebay
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