Help list fujinon lens m42

[nickfuji]

Hello
I need to know all optical Fujinon m42 attack, also if possible which of these are a must have.
Thanks nicola

[Aanything]

try here: http://www.pentax-manuals.com/fujica/lenses/m42_lenses.htm

As far as I know they are all from good to excellent, considered their age.

[themoleman342]

The Fujinon m42 group on Flickr is a good place to start too: http://www.flickr.com/groups/m42_fujinon/

[Macca]

I have the EBC 55MM 1.8 and the EBC 135MM 2.5, both excellent lens.

If I had to pick a must have it`s the 135mm 2.5, it`s not so common though. Great colours and contrast, sharpish even from wide open, an excellent portrait lens and one I wouldn`t part with.

[nickfuji]

Thank you for the information.

Nicola

[WolverineX]

there was a thread here with fujinon lenses some time ago, but can't find exact one, but luckily i copied these then:

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[Attila]

35mm f1.9 stunning even at wide open.

[MTHall]

How common are short zooms for M42 mounts? I've had a Makinon 28-80 and a Fujinon Z 43-75, which I still have (illus). The Makinon was stolen shortly after I acquired it and I've used the Fuji since that time, it's a good zoom, but without a `wide' end, 43mm is `standard lens' really.



Funny little lens these, very good tho'. Have only seen one other and that is on here in `finished transactions'. It's very good ergonomically, the single grip enables easy manipulation with both focus and zoom with it's unique tactile separation of the two movements, this without one movement being `stiff', like on my Tamron. It is quite compact too, but if it had a wider end it might have added more bulk to the design.
Vivitar made a very nice super zoom 28-210, I had that on my OM40, it would be super to have one in M42 too. It made a bulky outfit to carry about and suffered from not having a zoom lock, in reality a necessity for a zoom with such an extension. Tamron did a 28-80 that sits on my Kinon/Minolta (now `no-named!). That does have a zoom lock thankfully. That would convert to M42 if I could find a Tamron Adaptall2 for M42 auto iris (diaphragm pin)?? Anyone out there??

[Mos6502]

Did they not offer an EBC version of the 2.2/55?

[WolverineX]

[Bille]

Interesting ... thanks for the scans.

[Arkku]

I've listed the Fujinon lenses I believe to actually exist in M42 on the front page of flickr group M42 Fujinon lenses. I am not fully sure about all of the zoom lenses, but at least the primes listed all exist.

Note, however, that there are many versions of some of the lenses (e.g., at least 4 different 50mm f/1.4's and 55mm f/1.8's, at least 2 different 55mm f/2.2, 135mm f/3.5, 28mm f/3.5, 200mm f/4.5, etc)… It's very hard to know what versions exist, since some of them may be very rare—the 50mm f/1.4 and 55mm f/1.8 are the most common lenses and there I can confirm at least 4 different variants to exist, but could be that these same variants exist for other lenses as well, but the lenses themselves are so rare that only the most common 1 or 2 variants ever pop up for sale.

Old advertising material is not fully reliable, either, since it always displays only one moment's line-up and may include some planned lenses that never come true (e.g., the 50mm f/1.2 and 45mm f/2.8 shown in the scans above do not exist in M42, AFAIK—if you can find one, I would pay a lot for them =).

[Arkku]

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[Bille]

[Arkku]