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Exaktar Auto 50mm f/1.8
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:59 am    Post subject: Exaktar Auto 50mm f/1.8 Reply with quote

Tapping the collective wisdom here. I recently came into posession of this lens. Would like to know more about it, seeing as i can't seem to fit it to any of my adapters. What is that mount? In line with the Exaktar name I thought it was an Exakta mount, but it not. Any help appreciated!



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's certainly a Cosina made lens. As to the mount can't say not Minolta SR2, maybe QBM or Petri?


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not Petri, not QBM either.

Definitely something obscure and not so common.

I know I've seen it before but I can't quite think where...


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've figured it out, it's the Exakta Real mount, which is pretty rare as it was only used on a couple of cameras that were only in production for a few years.

https://mikeeckman.com/2020/08/exakta-real-1966/


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks all! Crap, there go my aspirations to adapt it... Guess there was a reason it was so cheap... Crying or Very sad


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Adapter does exist (to E-mount)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174539580892


PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Exakta Real and Exakta Twin were the 2 cameras. The Twin iteration was made by Cosina IIRC.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

D1N0 wrote:
Adapter does exist (to E-mount)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174539580892


Wow, thanks! I forgot about this guy. A bit pricey, but I suppose the price is a function of how much one wants to use that particular lens...


PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jamaeolus wrote:
Exakta Real and Exakta Twin were the 2 cameras. The Twin iteration was made by Cosina IIRC.


I don't have the original Exakta Real, but its successor, the Exakta Twin TL, here shwon with the Exaktar Wide 2.8/35mm:



There's some quite good information on the West German "Eaxkta Real" business here on the photobutmore website, albeit in German language:

https://photobutmore.de/exakta/erben/

S


PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Twin TL is made by Cosina and apart from the name has no relation or similarity to the German original so is irrelevant.


PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike Eckman has a bit more to say about it: https://mikeeckman.com/2021/11/ihagee-exakta-twin-tl-1970/


PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
The Twin TL is made by Cosina and apart from the name has no relation or similarity to the German original so is irrelevant.


The Twin TL shown above has the very bayonet the OP was asking about, and it was produced on behalf of and sold by the very company that had produced barely 1000 cameras of the Exakta Real: Igahee AG Berlin. It is one of the few SLRs his lens would fit to, and the information may very well be relevant to him Wink

Apart from this, the contacts between Cosina and the German (West) manufacturer Igahee Kamerawerke (later Igahee AG Berlin) probably have started the long lasting cooperation between several German companies and Cosina, among them Zeiss. We all know that this is far from irrelevant.

S


PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Irrelevant as it doesn't help the OP in any way to figure out how he can adapt and use his lens.

Go back to squinting at corners, you troll.


PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A more practical strategy is to look for the Porst Color Relfex 50mm 1:1.8 It is the same lens also made by Cosina of course. It even has the same square rough ribbed focus ring (also seen on the Porst 55/1.4 of which there is also an Exaktar version. You could even put in the name ring of the Exaktar in it. It is m42 so no problems adapting. It has comparable swirly bokeh to the Helios 44-2 but the helios is rendering nicer.