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Industar-50 5cm f/3.5 "made in Kazan" and NEX-5
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PostPosted: Fri May 04, 2012 11:39 am    Post subject: Industar-50 5cm f/3.5 "made in Kazan" and NEX-5 Reply with quote

The Industar-10, Industar-22 and Industar-50 make up the vast majority of Russian collapsible LTM lenses.
The Industar-50 was produced mainly by KMZ and LZOS. There also exists a KOMZ-version, "Made in Kazan", which is considerably much rarer then the KMZ and LZOS versions. The lens that I present here is such a KOMZ Industar-50.

Lens: Industar-50 5cm f/3.5 П "made in Kazan" (Princelle Kz20)
Camera: NEX-5

Note the П-mark. It is black instead of the usual red.
This lens has 10 aperture blades; I also have a KMZ and LZOS Industar-50, and they both have 8 aperture blades.
The KOMZ Industar-22 also has 10 aperture blades, while a KMZ Industar-22 that I checked has only 8 blades.

If you're interested, you can read my newly posted blog entry.

Some images:









PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks very nice! How's the quality compared to other the other Industars?


PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

beautiful combo, this old lens look in better shape than your Nex


PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting that is doesn't say Industar and the P symbol isn't red. First I've seen like this.

I have the more common KMZ version:




PostPosted: Sat May 05, 2012 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The black P Industar. Your combo looks very spy camera. Nice. Smile


PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ForenSeil wrote:
Looks very nice! How's the quality compared to other the other Industars?


I don't know yet. It will be one of my one-lens-a-day lenses this week though, so maybe by the weekend I'll post some test images Wink


PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine is LZOS collapsible version from 1957 with red П, but passed due to its age. I think that black P is due to red erase.

Here it is on Olympus Pen E-P2 :





PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of my favourite lens ,all looks good!!