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Alternate Internet ID
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 Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:06 pm Post subject: Identify 35mm lens |
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Alternate Internet ID wrote:
Any ideas what this is?
It's a preset 35mm f/2.8 branded Sands Hunter in T2 mount.
It has 12 blades - pretty much circular aperture.
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Samsung: 2/30mm
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iangreenhalgh1
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
I've had 4 or 5 preset t-mount 3.5/35 lenses of that vintage and they were the worst lenses I have tried.
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dimitrygo
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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dimitrygo wrote:
Sands Hunter? I think you should buy it only for the name 
I have Super Lentar lens with exactly the same characteristics including 0.9m MFD (mine has it engraved though) but focus and preset (the lowest) rings have different shapes:
For some reason I had a problem focusing this lens - all my pictures went back focused so I cannot tell too much about its IQ apart the low contrast. |
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iangreenhalgh1
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
Sands Hunter was a chain of photo stores, The name actually goes back to 1874 to the original Sands, Hunter Co. on The Strand:
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ManualFocus-G
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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ManualFocus-G wrote:
The top one looks like the preset Vivitar / AICO lens line and the second lens looks more like the Yashica / Tokina lenses.
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Alternate Internet ID
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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Alternate Internet ID wrote:
It came in a box of stuff I picked up at an auction for a couple of pounds.
I thought it might be an early Tamron as there's a 135mm Sand Hunter which I'm pretty certain is an early T2 - very small and again with an almost circular aperture.
Just after I took this photo the front element dropped out and bounced on the kitchen tiles - it's a goner!
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“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
Tony Benn
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Sigma: Macro HSM 2.8-4/17-70mm
Sigma: 1.4/50mm EX DG HSM
Samsung: 3.5-5.6/20-50mm
Samsung: 2/30mm
CZJ: MC Flektogon 2.4/35mm
Tamron SP: 2.5/90mm
Helios 44M: 2/58mm
Canon FL: 1.4/50mm
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iangreenhalgh1
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
| Alternate Internet ID wrote: |
It came in a box of stuff I picked up at an auction for a couple of pounds.
I thought it might be an early Tamron as there's a 135mm Sand Hunter which I'm pretty certain is an early T2 - very small and again with an almost circular aperture.
Just after I took this photo the front element dropped out and bounced on the kitchen tiles - it's a goner! |
It will be no loss mate, as I said, the similar 3.5/35s I had were really garbage.
I used the barrel of a similar Uni badged one to remount a 40mm microfilm lens.
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luisalegria
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
I have the Tamron-made (mine is Soligor brand) preset 35mm -
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tamron.co.jp/data/old-lens/olm35f2_8.htm
Unfortunately mine is a fixed mount version in Canonflex, so I have not been able to try it properly.
It is however much larger than some of these unknown make presets, so I doubt that Tamron was the maker.
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dimitrygo
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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dimitrygo wrote:
The data in the link says it has 46mm filter. My lens has 52mm filter so not sure Tamron is larger. But anyway they don't look even similar IMHO. |
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