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darmodej
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 Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: Astranar 1:3.5 f=135mm West-Berlin-Gemany Nr. 15389 C |
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darmodej wrote:
Hallo, got this beauty today.
It's in exakta mount, silver aluminium with leather strip close to mount - looks like zeiss between plain alu an alu/leather designs. 'Germany' placed close to mount, as on old Zeiss.
The lens can be opened just by screwing parts off - like the Meyer Trioplan, has 15 bladed preset iris, and red 'C' in title - coated. Focusing is in feet.
The only thing i think i know is that it's a US export Piesker and maybe a Cooke Triplet. Will try to make some pictures of and with it this weekend.
Does anyone have more info about it? Maybe some dating or so.
...enjoy the weekend (:
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DSLR: Canon eos 5D mkII
COMPACTS: Minotla HI-MATIC F, Yashica 35 Electro GTN
SLR: a few Prakticas, Canon eos 5, Yashica FRI, Contax RX
Medium Format: Mockba 5, Reflex Korelle
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CZ Contax: Distagon 2.8/28, Distagon 1.4/35, Planar 1.4/50, Planar 1.4/85, Vario-Sonnar 4/80-200
CZJ m42: Flektogon 2.8/20 MC, Pancolar 50/1.8
Schneider: Tele-Xenar 3.5/135 (m42), Xenar 2.8/80 (RK)
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luisalegria
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Astranar was a trademark used by Sterling Howard, a US importer.
A lot of their early product was from Piesker of Berlin, yours may be one of these. I just sold a Piesker-made Astranar.
Its possible that they put the Astranar name on other German-made lenses also, but I haven't seen them.
Later stuff was from several Japanese makers.
Could you post a picture ? We could ID the thing accurately.
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darmodej
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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darmodej wrote:
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Jan
DSLR: Canon eos 5D mkII
COMPACTS: Minotla HI-MATIC F, Yashica 35 Electro GTN
SLR: a few Prakticas, Canon eos 5, Yashica FRI, Contax RX
Medium Format: Mockba 5, Reflex Korelle
Lenses
CZ Contax: Distagon 2.8/28, Distagon 1.4/35, Planar 1.4/50, Planar 1.4/85, Vario-Sonnar 4/80-200
CZJ m42: Flektogon 2.8/20 MC, Pancolar 50/1.8
Schneider: Tele-Xenar 3.5/135 (m42), Xenar 2.8/80 (RK)
CCCP m42 Industar-50 3.5/50, Helios 44-2 2/58, Tair-3-PhS 4.5/300
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luisalegria
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Definetely a Piesker. I have a 180mm in the same series.
Looks like the original version for Exakta mount. I believe I saw this listed (as Piesker) in Seymours catalog from around 1954-56.
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darmodej
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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darmodej wrote:
| luisalegria wrote: |
Definetely a Piesker. I have a 180mm in the same series.
Looks like the original version for Exakta mount. I believe I saw this listed (as Piesker) in Seymours catalog from around 1954-56. |
cool, thanks, any idea about the glass design? will try to comapare it with meyers trioplan, i don't have a steinheil triplet, did read they were the best
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Jan
DSLR: Canon eos 5D mkII
COMPACTS: Minotla HI-MATIC F, Yashica 35 Electro GTN
SLR: a few Prakticas, Canon eos 5, Yashica FRI, Contax RX
Medium Format: Mockba 5, Reflex Korelle
Lenses
CZ Contax: Distagon 2.8/28, Distagon 1.4/35, Planar 1.4/50, Planar 1.4/85, Vario-Sonnar 4/80-200
CZJ m42: Flektogon 2.8/20 MC, Pancolar 50/1.8
Schneider: Tele-Xenar 3.5/135 (m42), Xenar 2.8/80 (RK)
CCCP m42 Industar-50 3.5/50, Helios 44-2 2/58, Tair-3-PhS 4.5/300
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luisalegria
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luisalegria wrote:
I believe my 5.5/180 is four elements, so who knows. I don't think there are published specifications for Piesker.
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SVP
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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SVP wrote:
As already said, this a Piesker Picon 3.5/135, so it should have 3 elements in 2 groups. |
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darmodej
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darmodej wrote:
Here a picture, the sharpness fully open did suprise me, bokeh is very interesting. i like the colors also, vegneting is quite strong fully open
100% crop, not sharpened # 3,5
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Jan
DSLR: Canon eos 5D mkII
COMPACTS: Minotla HI-MATIC F, Yashica 35 Electro GTN
SLR: a few Prakticas, Canon eos 5, Yashica FRI, Contax RX
Medium Format: Mockba 5, Reflex Korelle
Lenses
CZ Contax: Distagon 2.8/28, Distagon 1.4/35, Planar 1.4/50, Planar 1.4/85, Vario-Sonnar 4/80-200
CZJ m42: Flektogon 2.8/20 MC, Pancolar 50/1.8
Schneider: Tele-Xenar 3.5/135 (m42), Xenar 2.8/80 (RK)
CCCP m42 Industar-50 3.5/50, Helios 44-2 2/58, Tair-3-PhS 4.5/300
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darmodej
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darmodej wrote:
Decided to let it go, if some is interested 25€ or so..
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Jan
DSLR: Canon eos 5D mkII
COMPACTS: Minotla HI-MATIC F, Yashica 35 Electro GTN
SLR: a few Prakticas, Canon eos 5, Yashica FRI, Contax RX
Medium Format: Mockba 5, Reflex Korelle
Lenses
CZ Contax: Distagon 2.8/28, Distagon 1.4/35, Planar 1.4/50, Planar 1.4/85, Vario-Sonnar 4/80-200
CZJ m42: Flektogon 2.8/20 MC, Pancolar 50/1.8
Schneider: Tele-Xenar 3.5/135 (m42), Xenar 2.8/80 (RK)
CCCP m42 Industar-50 3.5/50, Helios 44-2 2/58, Tair-3-PhS 4.5/300
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ramiller500
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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ramiller500 wrote:
I have a later Japanese-made Tele-Astranar 135mm/3.5 lens (preset T mount) that I mail ordered from Sterling Howard. This one seems to be a Tokyo Koki (Tokina) product, with 4 elements in 3 groups according to the Sterling Howard literature of that time, like the CZJ 135mm/3.5 Sonnar.
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