T mount lenses from 1966

[scsambrook]

Here's an interesting advert from the UK magazine Amateur Photographer, November 9th, 1966 :



The advertiser, Dixons, was a chain store with around 80 shops at that time and the largest photo-retailer in the UK.

Although the prices look absurdly low, don't forget this was almost fifty years ago. Allowing for UK inflation, the "cheap" Komura 85mm f1.4 priced at just under £30 would be around £460 today. Maybe not so cheap when we can buy an 85/1.4 Samyang here today for about £280 . . .

Has anyone in the MF Lenses Forum got one of these "Super-Speed" Komura telephotos?

[calvin83]

The Komura 85mm f1.4 is quiet soft from F1.4 to F2. I almost bought a copy few months before but I do not because My CZJ Sonnar T 2/85 seems have better bokeh. They are quiet hard to find one although they does not cost too much. BTW, they are not T mount but a interchangeable mount called "Uni-Dapt".

[Nordentro]

I have the Komura 105mm f2 in m42, but it may be a Uni-Dapt too

The 105mm is also softish wide open, but sharpens nicely when stopped down. Good for portraits!

[Fabian]

Dixons still exists in the Netherlands today, same company.

"Dixons was founded as a photographic studio by Charles Kalms and Michael Mindel in the High Street in Southend under the name of Dixons Studios Limited, a company registered in October 1937 with share capital of £100. The name Dixons, selected randomly from the telephone directory, was sufficiently short to fit above the small shop front."

[calvin83]

[Nordentro]