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Olivier
Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Posts: 5078 Location: France
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:18 am Post subject: Mamiya 2.8/28 ? |
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Olivier wrote:
Here is a Mamiya 2.8/28 on the bay :
Click here to see on Ebay
Do you know this lens and what do you think about it ?
What price would be worth it ?
Thanks in advance.
Olivier _________________ Olivier - Moderator
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Rolf
Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 4123 Location: NRW/Germany
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:47 am Post subject: |
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Rolf wrote:
Hi Oliver,
its a Tokina. I bought one 2 weeks ago for approx. 21 € but had until now no time to make some tests.
You can look also here
http://forum.mflenses.com/sears-tokina-28-2-8-being-a-tourist-colombus-telegraph-t7657,highlight,tokina+++28mm.html
Greetings
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Olivier
Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Posts: 5078 Location: France
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Olivier wrote:
Thanks Rolf.
As always, nice samples and tests from Luis !
Have a very good day.
Olivier _________________ Olivier - Moderator
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Rolf
Joined: 02 May 2009 Posts: 4123 Location: NRW/Germany
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Rolf wrote:
Hi Oliver,
the weather is now better here in Germany. I made some test shots for you. Nothing special only into the garden. As you can see it´s very soft and with a lot of CA. All shots with 5DMKII and wide open.
May be it is better with a crop cam or another aperture.
Rolf _________________ Rolf |
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Olivier
Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Posts: 5078 Location: France
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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Olivier wrote:
Ouch...
Maybe you're right about the best quality with a less pixels sensor.
Nevertheless, afetr these shots, I think I'll left it to somebody else.
Thanks a lot Rolf. _________________ Olivier - Moderator
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Aykman
Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 57
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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Aykman wrote:
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luisalegria
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6602 Location: San Francisco, USA
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Hi Aykman,
"Tokina" was the house brand of Tokyo Koki, the original name of that company. You will sometimes find 1960's preset lenses labelled "Tokyo Koki Tokina" or "Tele-Tokina". Tokina certainly existed, both as a company and as a brand name, long before the 1970's when they started to sell most of their lenses under the Tokina brand.
You will find plenty of these very distinctive old presets under many names, including Yashica (the original lenses shown for the Yashica Penta-J in 1962 were this series), and even the original Mamiya 400/6.3 for the 500TL/1000TL is one of these.
As for automatic lenses -
Early Mamiya SLR lenses have a very, very strong resemblance to some lenses sold by Ricoh, Yashica, Vivitar, Soligor, and many other brands, which based on the Vivitar serial number codes identify them as made by Tokina. Have a look at the very distinctive 90-230/4.5 zoom that can be found under all these brands (just one example). It is the same lens as the one sold as a Mamiya for the TL/DTL. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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Aykman
Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 57
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Aykman wrote:
this message is outdated and deleted!
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Blue
Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 304
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Blue wrote:
The confusion about Mamiya lenses is the fact that they made more lenses for other companies than they bought from other companies. Other than here say, I have never seen any definitive proof that Tokina or Tomoika made any lenses for Mamiya. As far as Ricoh goes, they bought most of their lenses. Vivitar and Soligor also contracted their lenses.
I'm not sure the serial number system works for Vivitar prior to 1970. It probably does to some extent but I don't know about the reliability.
Mamiya even made some 35mm lenses for Rollie until they dropped manufacturing of 35mm in the early 80s.
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http://www.cameraquest.com/VivLensManuf.htm _________________ Pentax: K, H2, H3, S3, SV (late & early), SV black, Spot F, K2 chrome, K2 black, ME F, SuperProgram, 6x7, Auto 110, Asahiflex IIB late
Pentax "modern": MZ-3, *istD, K200d, K20d
Mamiya: C3 TLR, NC1000
Canon: EOS 10s, AE-1
Chinon: CP-7m
IKON: Contax D, Praktiflex FX & Victar 50mm f2.9
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luisalegria
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6602 Location: San Francisco, USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Comments -
> The confusion about Mamiya lenses is the fact that they made more lenses for other companies than they bought from other companies.
Thats very hard to say, and there is the issue of timing. We are mostly concerned with the first lenses for the 500TL/1000TL on this matter. Its perfectly possible that Mamiya bought in lenses for a while, as it was entering a new market for them.
>Other than here say, I have never seen any definitive proof that Tokina or Tomoika made any lenses for Mamiya.
Definitive proof would be good, but that would consist of documents which we can't get at. Even so, we have very compelling physical evidence.
>As far as Ricoh goes, they bought most of their lenses. Vivitar and Soligor also contracted their lenses.
Thats correct. As did Yashica for a lot of their early SLR lenses, and many other SLR makers, in spite of having lens manufacturing capability.
> I'm not sure the serial number system works for Vivitar prior to 1970.
It doesn't. And there are cases of probable post-1970 lenses that don't fit either.
> It probably does to some extent but I don't know about the reliability.
In the case of the Vivitar T4 series with the "37" code, it seems very reliable and consistent. T4 was a Tokina design. The alleged Tokina-made Mamiya's closely resemble several items in this specific series.
> Mamiya even made some 35mm lenses for Rollie until they dropped manufacturing of 35mm in the early 80s.
This does not preclude Mamiya buying in lenses from other makers to fill out parts of their product line over a given period - they had to offer a reasonably full range for marketing reasons, but may not have wanted to get into the R&D and tooling expense to create and manufacture unique designs across the range. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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