Telemar 22 hattrick

[Marek]

Maybe at the instigation of one of MFL threads, I bought three Telemar lenses altogether. Despite the whole transaction was another pain in the ass, the promised items arrived fine.

I sold one already to minimize the loss and the last one is still (but probably not for a long time) available.

In all cases focus rings ranged from stiff to very stiff (being a sad rule in case of old silver Russian lenses) but otherwise in MINT condition including optics. Many not-too-tight screws, one funny fingerprint inside and no or very limited amount of dust inside clearly indicates someone was messing with in two cases.

Nearly no caps were actually fitting or even original, so I had to mess with spare caps a bit. To speculate a bit, I belive those lenses to come from a limited production (all numbers below 10.000, as already discussed here I think) with original WW2 stolen German caps to be used on but not fitting too well though. I've got one cap I find identical to my prewar Tele Tessar 25cm cap and seen the very same combination at least two times online as well. What a lens caps crime story.

No worthy photos made with yet, too wacky weather. f/5.6 so it probably needs a proper sunlight. I expect creamy Tair-like bokeh.

The pics:









Marek

[BurstMox]

About serial number, all the Telemar-22 have 00 or 000. I have never seen one with "normal" serial number .

This lens is not very hard to disassemble, I have just disassembled one some days ago, because of stiff focus ring.

[Marek]

Yeah I lurked inside a bit, but do not know how to lube the lens though

Would like to learn, but - no professors