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Industar 50-2 alu - vintage!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:35 pm    Post subject: Industar 50-2 alu - vintage!!! Reply with quote
I think I've finally found the lens that gives photos the vintage look I'm after Very Happy Lack of contrast, vignetting...love it!

Looks like this one:









PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
enjoy the winter time....the lens feels like home in the snow Smile


PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Congrats!!! I saw this lens only on pictures! Great find!


PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have this lens gifted to me by our old friend Poohall and also an ealier one that is a 5cm lens which I got on a Zenit C.

Vignetting is obvious, as is the contrast, but mine seem quite a bit sharper. Look out for another copy if you like it.


PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think the middle photo has a touch of camera shake to be honest. Here's a crop of the last one, looks OK for f3.5 to me Smile

I've got two of these and find them much worse than the black M42 copies. But then I really like the vintage look Very Happy



PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ManualFocus-G wrote:
I think the middle photo has a touch of camera shake to be honest.

Withdrawal symptoms? Laughing


PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh and where did you get all that snow from? You're not that far from me and we had next to nothing.


PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
martinsmith99 wrote:
ManualFocus-G wrote:
I think the middle photo has a touch of camera shake to be honest.

Withdrawal symptoms? Laughing


Ha! Photo withdrawl symptoms perhaps, I really haven't shot a lot recently!!

As for the snow, it came Wednesday night by the bucket load! I spent 45 minutes gritting my car park only for it to be covered by 5" snow in a couple of hours Laughing


PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting. My experience is very different. I have two black ones and they're very sharp and have great color rendering. They also work great with extension tubes. Are you sure the glass is clean?

Here's a shot where I used extension tubes and because the lens is so small, I could also use the builtin flash:



What is the year of production? Mine are from '72 and '80.


PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laurentiu Cristofor wrote:
Interesting. My experience is very different. I have two black ones and they're very sharp and have great color rendering. They also work great with extension tubes. Are you sure the glass is clean?

Here's a shot where I used extension tubes and because the lens is so small, I could also use the builtin flash:



What is the year of production? Mine are from '72 and '80.


Difference I think quality control they were cheap lenses always and on this price level no matter some copies are good or bad.


PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:

Difference I think quality control they were cheap lenses always and on this price level no matter some copies are good or bad.


I don't think it's quality control. These are old lenses - it's more likely that they suffered some damage than that they were badly produced. And I think that these lenses were all made by KMZ, which is a military factory, so their standards would be higher than usual.

Also, looking at the lens photo I realized that the silver ones are Industar-50, not Industar-50-2, like the ones I have. But still, I don't expect the original design to be this bad.

Here's some more information on these lenses (needs to be passed through a translator): http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/lenses/industar-50.html


PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Never black Industar-50-2 for M42 mount have better coatings.


PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
My black 50-2 lenses all perform much better than the two m39 silver ones I have. Both are short on coating, it's fair to say. Remember these shots are wide open at d300s.5 too Smile
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