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PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My old Canon A-1 with an unusual lens(tube), an intermediate lens tube for a Carl Zeiss Jena microscope with those M19 infinate corrected objectives. That is a cool piece on your book shelf. Wink The Fujica AZ-1 with a Chinese focusing tube is not bad either.



PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I guess the above items are a bit too exotic? Rolling Eyes Here is a lens much less bizarre.

A very early uncoated Industar-22 for those rare Fed-Zorki cameras. This lens is rarely seen for sale.



PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A high quality but mysterious Chinese 58mm F4 lens. It has focusing helicoid but no distance scales. I hand hold it to my Canon FTb, and it seems even sharper than the FDn 50/1.4! Its back focul length is long enough for a Leica rangefinder camera, or a Sony A7 etc. It is pacted in a well made wooden case like any high quality optics. Like 1 small It is about the same size as that of a Canon FD 50/1.4, but feels much solid and heavier for many brass parts. I can't tell when it was made from its 000209 s/n.



PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
In this piccie there are a couple of rare lenses and a very, very rare camera - the Yashica FX-A.

The rarest lens is the one that seems least remarkable: Yashica's ML 70-210 f4. This is a truly stunning zoom - every bit as sharp as the greatest zoom of its type, Zeiss' 70-210 f3.5 Vario-Sonnar Macro - and it is as tack-sharp as its more illustrious cousin; merely it lacks the Zeiss' macro facility but the build quality is the same. It's a heavy beast and I can find no information on its optical formula. It was made for under 1 year in 1979 before Yashica reverted to the much less costly ML 80-200 f4 which had preceded it; it was very expensive back then for a Yashica lens, indeed only the 1000mm f11 Reflex was more expensive, and unusually was made on the Zeiss production line at the Tomioka factory. Only a few hundred were made and they rarely change hands it would seem, such is the quality of the images it can produce throughout the zoom range and with the benefit of a constant aperture.

The next one is the ML 55 1.2, which is not quite on a par with my Zeiss Planar 55 1.2, but this particular lens is sharper than previous copies I've owned and has a dreamy bokeh. The other lenses are not that common but can be found online with a little effort and all are capable of producing great photos; the ML 100 3.5 Macro is much sought after these days.

The Yashica FX-A was shown alongside the Contax 137AF with its 3 AF Zeiss lenses in the Contax/Yashica mount at Photokina in 1982; both were only shown to journalists and trade customers as prototypes but the Yashica had already started limited production using a Honeywell hybrid focusing module that is a joy to use. Kyocera stupidly abandoned both projects and it is estimated that some 600-800 FX-As were made, most of which were snapped up the US Government. A few made it over here to Europe.

I will upload a couple more piccies shortly that show my Zeiss 55 1.2 and also an Olympus rarity, the 50 f1.2 as opposed to the various models of the more common 55 1.2.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
biggles3 ，

Many thanks for sharing your knowledage about Yashica lenses. I have very limited experience with these. I only picked up a ML 50mm 1:2 recently as I heard many good comments about Yashica optics. It is a very good lens. Like 1 small


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A rarely seen early Chinese night-vision scope.It was very expensive back in 1980's with a retail price of more than 8,000 yuan RMB( about 20 monthly wages of a young worker in 1970's)! It has a s/n 1100309, and it still works. Later, China made new generations of night-vision scopes of much better quality.



PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kievuser wrote:
biggles3 ，

Many thanks for sharing your knowledage about Yashica lenses. I have very limited experience with these. I only picked up a ML 50mm 1:2 recently as I heard many good comments about Yashica optics. It is a very good lens. Like 1 small


Thank you for your comment; if you want to know more about Yashica lenses, it might be worth checking the lenses section at http://yashica.boards.net/

I am delighted that you are enjoying your ML 50mm f2; it is one of those undiscovered gems - very sharp, even illumination and good build quality - and as an 'unfashionable lens' is very cheap to buy. Those in the know have grabbed them very quickly as they appear which raises the risk that prices may start rising before too long.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Something very different, a mirror lens with built in quite interesting aperture
which is fan shaped and regulated by adjusting the angle of the blades!

And it is a very fast one, too, a f1.4 150mm lens (!!) made for scientific research
of which very few have ever been made and sold.



PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Klaus,

Many thanks for sharing! I never heard of these kind of lenses before. It is a very clever and unique design. Like 1 small Who made this lens, Japan or Germany?


PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks solid and feels solid too. A Chinese large format lens, a 300mm F5.6 one made in Shanghai in 1980 by a well known factory. It has 18 blades.


PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chinese APO printing lens, made in 1984. It is rarely seen outside China.



PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have ultra rare Russian cine lens "Kinooptika" Leningrad PO18-1 100mm 2.0 from 1950



PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kievuser wrote:
Klaus,

Many thanks for sharing! I never heard of these kind of lenses before. It is a very clever and unique design. Like 1 small Who made this lens, Japan or Germany?


Made in USA, by a small company who started making astronomical instruments, mainly
large mirror lenses, then developed terrestrial high-speed mirror lenses for scientific use,
even for short UV (Lyman Alpha lines) used in particle research etc.

Owner died a few years ago (I knew him, we had talked about UV lenses), son dissolved
the company.


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lexx wrote:
I have ultra rare Russian cine lens "Kinooptika" Leningrad PO18-1 100mm 2.0 from 1950



Thanks for sharing. Do yo know how many pieces were made? I don't remember ever seeing it before.


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
kds315* wrote:
kievuser wrote:
Klaus,

Many thanks for sharing! I never heard of these kind of lenses before. It is a very clever and unique design. Like 1 small Who made this lens, Japan or Germany?


Made in USA, by a small company who started making astronomical instruments, mainly
large mirror lenses, then developed terrestrial high-speed mirror lenses for scientific use,
even for short UV (Lyman Alpha lines) used in particle research etc.

Owner died a few years ago (I knew him, we had talked about UV lenses), son dissolved
the company.


Many thanks for a detailed reply. This made collecting rare and vintage lenses even more interesting as one gained knowledage along the way of collecting. Thank you!


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A rarely seen for sale Polish enlarging lens with build-in filters for color negatives. I guess the lens itself must be a high quality one for such a complex design. It is a 80/5.6 lens.



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chinese enlarging lenses could be a gold mine as some higher quality lenses used imported lens elements, and therefore they performed optically on par with their foreign counterparts. The difference is finish of metal parts. They were usually very expensive compared to civilian cameras and lenses. That 180/4.5 lens cost RMB 780 yuan if that is the original price sticker. Like some Soviet products, some Chinese products also printed ,or hand write their prices on the instruction papers. Sometimes they even let you know the whole sale and retail prices altogether.



PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Today, I picked up this Tiane 75/3.5 enlarging lens for RMB 40. The lens has some dust inside so it needs a CLA. Here is what a seller said about this lens, and he sells it for RMB 500.Smile The image was borrowed on-line. Mine has a s/n of 847040(1984).

天鹅75F4.5放大镜头M39螺口全副不打板

天鹅 像场 6*9公分，超过莱卡90/4镜头像场6*7公分可以用于移轴拍摄方式使用
本放大头有长春东北光学研究所研制，可以说是国产做工、质量非常好的放大头之一，根据德国罗顿斯特仿制的放大头。

通过上海华侨摄影协会专家实拍，试验，与罗顿斯特的镜头各项指标相当，新中国成立后用德国镜片制造，中国仿制罗德刚75焦段，出片锐度好，颜色纯真的德国风格。
天鹅75F4.5放大镜头M39螺口是库存的放大镜头，没有任何的使用记录和使用痕迹，纯金属放大头。

天鹅75F4.5放大镜头，用于拍摄建筑接片，建筑不会变形。

'This lens covers 6X9cm format so it can be used as a shift lens......It is a copy of a Rodenstock lens...... it used German elements.....'



PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I saw the device for that 42mm F1 lens. It is said with a build-in the 1st generation digital sensor, but I forgot its name. It looks uncommon with those old transistors.



PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here are some flower images of the Tiane 75/3.5 enlarging lens, so that seller said might be true.

http://www.soupis.com/thread-31700-2-1.html


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kievuser wrote:
Lexx wrote:
I have ultra rare Russian cine lens "Kinooptika" Leningrad PO18-1 100mm 2.0 from 1950



Thanks for sharing. Do yo know how many pieces were made? I don't remember ever seeing it before.


In just a few years of searching, I found in the Internet photos 3 copies RO18-1 KINOOPTIKA Leningrad (whith my). Their serial numbers are very close 8xx, so I think that they have done no more than 100 pieces.

Rather Year of 1950-1952, after the inscription was LINKENAP newer lenses RO18-2 and RO18-3 1952-1961. These models are far more common.

It was only after they went to a movie series ACS lenses

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lexx, Thanks for the information. Russian cine optics enjoyed very good reputation in China in recently years. No one tried them before in film era, but now with a proper adaptor you can compare them with big name products on a digital camera. Like 1 small


PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here is a rare Chinese C mount lens made for 16mm movie cameras. It is the first time I saw it. I bought it a few days ago from a friend of mine. It is designed as a manual lens, and was made in 1979. Those electric motor operated ones are more often seen. These kind of lenses still sell for high prices at Xbay.



PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
kievuser wrote:
Lexx, Thanks for the information. Russian cine optics enjoyed very good reputation in China in recently years. No one tried them before in film era, but now with a proper adaptor you can compare them with big name products on a digital camera. Like 1 small

Yes, I want to compare PO18-1 with canon 85 1.8 and Visionar 109 1.6 on my 6D.


PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here's about the best I can do for "rare" -



These are both SN 18 out of the 50 boxed gold-plated VS1 lens sets released for Vivitar's 50th anniversary in 1978.

One is a VS1 28-105/2.8-3.8 and the other is a VS1 70-210/2.8-4.

The 70-210/2.8-4 is belongs (as V.4b) in my VS1 70-210 collection -

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