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PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A real beauty also..



PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kds315* wrote:
A real beauty also..



Stop that, already green from envy!!! Mr. Green Mr. Green Mr. Green Mr. Green

Klaus


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Exceptional Klaus!

You must have friends in high places Rolling Eyes

Michiel


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just many years of passionate "lens hunting" Wink Wink

And a last one if I may, really a Zeiss masterpiece designed by Prof. Glazel himself and often used in his teachings ...



PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Let me show some Zeiss-East gems, as counter-parts to Klaus beautiful lenses.
3 Tessar variations:


2 Biometar variations:



All in Exakta mount.

Klaus


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Biometar f/2 has an aperture ring marked to f/1.5 ?

Special lens built in a Biotar 75/1.5 mechanism ?


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
luisalegria wrote:
Biometar f/2 has an aperture ring marked to f/1.5 ?

Special lens built in a Biotar 75/1.5 mechanism ?


Prototype lens, they often used the mounts, they already had, for testing.

Klaus


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
VERY nices ones Klaus!!


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you
Klaus


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laurence wrote:

For exterior beauty, I love the old Takumar 135/3.5 pre-set, with its bands
of chrome and black enamel. Also, the typical Takumar alternating
"ribs" on the focusing ring are classically beautiful to me.




the Takumar f3.5/135mm must also be one of my most beautiful lenses



though i find the f2.8/105mm of the same design, for being shorter, even more lovely




also like the looks of the f2/58mm



PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Many thanks to the two Klauses for those lovely Zeiss shots, I'm so jealous!


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I need to make up my mind on my most beautiful lens still, but one of the most beautiful lenses I have ever used was a Steinheil Quinar 2.8/135 VL in matte chrome finish! WOW! What a beauty!


iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
Many thanks to the two Klauses ...


+1! You guys are amazing with all your prototypes and unique lenses! Absolutely amazing!


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If Klaus and Klaus were to bring some of those special lenses to a mflenses forum gathering I bet people would happily pay to try them!

I know I would 'here Klaus, here's 20e, let me shoot a few shots with that prototype...' lol

May I ask about the UV lenses from Rodenstock and Zeiss, do these use different glass types to allow transmission of wavelengths below 420nm? I know nothing about UV photography but I do know a lot about UV lighting and have a ton of UV LEDs of different wavelengths from 385 to 415nm so building a UV macro ring light would be simple for me, just wondering if any of my lenses would work with these wavelengths or whether I would need on of these rare UV lenses...


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
go read my BLOG www.uvir.eu, it's all in there...


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Klaus, I wasn't aware of your blog, I shall go take a look!


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My greatest beauty: Schneider Betavaron 50-125/4-5.6 enlarger zoom.

But enough of beauty! What are your scariest, ugliest, weirdest lenses?
I'll nominate my Industar-58 enlarger lens set in a big black trumpet.

I must post pictures. Yes, one of these days, Real Soon Now...


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Many great looking lenses ! I think that in terms of design the 50mm Meyer Oreston is a fav, it's the zebra vesion, i'll post a pic : )


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ahh, scary, ugly, wierd, now I have a few contenders for that prize!

Bring your best guys cos I got some absolute monstrosities sat here!


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
hexi wrote:
Many great looking lenses ! I think that in terms of design the 50mm Meyer Oreston is a fav, it's the zebra vesion, i'll post a pic : )


+1

I also have that lens and the Pentacon version, the Meyer looks nicer by far.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's some, er, sexy gear on this thread Laughing

I love my old Yashinon but it needs a clean:







Takes a nice pic though...

http://forum.mflenses.com/yashica-auto-yashinon-5-5cm-f1-8-alu-t38476,highlight,%2Byashinon.html


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
Ahh, scary, ugly, wierd, now I have a few contenders for that prize!

Bring your best guys cos I got some absolute monstrosities sat here!

Fat lady sings:

though not as marked up as the one attila had.

heavy too....

wicked shooter though:

bigger
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/5825345006_e42c5e62af_b.jpg
Smile

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That Nikon is quite a pretty lens imho.

This beaten-up Tair is actually quite nice compared to some of the ugly things I have:



1.4 kilos of steel in that fat old babushka but like your Nikon, a good shooter:



100% crop:



I'll have to take some pics of my horrid ones tomorrow and start a thread, need daylight to take the pics.

BTW, were those early Yashinons made by the same people who made the early Mamiya Sekors? The front of the lens looks almost exactly like a Mamiya.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
haha

we will have to distinguish "ugly" as in beat up, from UGLY, as in very ugly design.

Your tair is like a moose

so ugly it's beautiful.



Smile

actually that's an elk, hehe


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You know, if we're gonna start talking about the most beautiful lens we've ever owned in terms of the pictures it takes (or has taken), then that becomes an entirely different kettle of fish . . . as 'they' say.

For me, it would require a considerable amount of . . . um, well, considering. Not just the lens or the images it has taken, but the locations I've found myself in, then and now.

So, I'm off to do some considering. And whatever I end up posting, the posts might not contain a photo of that specific lens because it might be long gone by now. Which means it's also highly likely that the image(s) will have been recorded on film.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I look forward to seeing the results of your considerations Michael!

I was taking the beauty thing to refer to the aesthetic appearance of the lens. The beautiful ones being the finely machined Schneiders, Zeisses etc.

Seems the most beautiful lenses all date from the days when men worked at lathes handcrafting beautiful barrels for them...
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