Show off your rare lens

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

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It doesn't help anyone, usually creates at least discomfort or even strife.

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kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

Thanks for the advice.

Here is a rare Soviet PK mount 50/1.8 lens, and a 'rare' Chinese PK mount 50/1.7 lens. Both are quite good ones that takes excellent images. The Chinese one may not be often seen outside China.

BurstMox · Expire: 2016-08-02

This Volna is not very very rare. It was lens for Almaz camera serie, pk mount.
The earliest models has normal marking "LOMO" without those triangles.

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

A Soviet 20mm F3.5 lens for a Kiev 15 SLR. Since the Kiev 15 is quite uncommon, I guess the not often used 20mm lens is quite rare? It seems that a Jupiter-9 85/2 in this mount is also quite rare? I have a 135mm F4 and a 37mm F2.8 lens for thei camera.

BurstMox · Expire: 2016-08-02

Those Jupiter-9M and Jupiter-12M are very rare, like the Rekord I think.
TOZ-500 was a prototype made by students, if I remember right.
Russar are usualy very rare, but there are many differents russars.

Mir-20 Automat (like Jupiter-9) is not rare at all. It's the cheapest Mir-20, easy to find on the bay.
I have an early one :

Here with J-9 and Mir-1

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

Very beautiful lens images! Like 1

Thanks for sharing.

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

Chinese Seagull (Haiou) brand 500mm F5 MD mount mirror lens. Mine is defective. The image of the one on a tripod, and an image shot with the lens are brrowed from collector 'è€åˆ˜å¿™â€˜ã€‚A total of about 1,000 lenses were made. These are not often seen even in China.

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

What is an Anamorphotic lens? I only saw an image online. The Chinese anamorphic movie projection lenses are often seen.

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

A lens which compresses one image axis and allows it to expand later (1.3/1.7/2x etc.) to get this format:

( I shot that with an ISCOMORPHOT some years ago...)

Often used in cinemas for wide screen projection

Read about it here: http://forum.mflenses.com/anamorphic-cinema-lens---help-t62773.html

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

Thanks for the reply and links! So I understand that anamorphic and anamorphotic lenses are the same. The anamorphotic lens shown looks like an attachment lens with a very different lens element. I have a few copies of the anamorphic projection lenses that look much bigger and heavy. Many Chinese photographers used these to take pictues like what you did.

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

A couple of early Soviet lenses. The Helios-44 58/2 for an early Start SLR is quite rare.(The one on the right) I havn't seen another one exactly like it yet. And an uncoated Industar-22 for early Fed-Zorki cameras that perhaps offered for sale once or twice a year only.

Tedat · Joined: 08 Nov 2011 Posts: 800 Location: Berlin/Germany

Auto Yashinon DX 2.8/100mm

..still haven't seen a second one

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Tedat · Joined: 08 Nov 2011 Posts: 800 Location: Berlin/Germany

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

Thanks for sharing, and congratualtions! Like 1

You must know the Yashica lens line very well to recognize such a rare piece. I would have no idea how rare it is if I saw it.

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

Here is a rarely seen vintage Chinese SLR with a rarely seen lens. I don't know how many were made, but one in this condition is quite hard to find. Laugh 1

The lens is also very sharp!

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

When hunting rare photographic gears, I also sometimes branched out to something else like Microscopic items. Here are a couple of very rare Chinese polarising microscope objectives made since late 1950's. These are Carl Zeiss Jena copies, or perhaps real CZJ products with a Chinese name as, IMHO, China had no such capability to produce such high-tech items by itself in early 1950's. You can find exactly the same objectives on a Carl Zeiss GFL microscope of 1950's.

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

A few more Carl Zeiss Jena objectives. These are infinity corrected dry series lenses for a special microscope with an uncommon M19 mount. The 60X Apochromat one has a NA value of 0.95 that is approching theoretical limit! I heard that these were not very successful products of the company so that they were not made in large numbers. I have limited knowleadge in these professional fields. I could be wrong. However, these could be used as beautiful paper weights nevertheless.

SonicScot · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 12:02 pm Post subject:

My rarest lens (I've never seen another IRL) is my Hartblei Super-Rotator 45mm f3.5 tilt-shift.

It's a marvellous piece of engineering.

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Tedat · Joined: 08 Nov 2011 Posts: 800 Location: Berlin/Germany

kievuser · Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 551

The Hartblei Super-Rotator 45mm f3.5 tilt-shift looks very impressive. I don't remember ever seen another one.
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dickb · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 821

I had promised a picture of the Vario Tevidon 15-150mm f/2, this one is in its original housing with motors for focus and aperture:

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