Mount Edixa? A Schacht ULM Travenar 2.8/50 (Bayonet)

[francotirador]

Hello, someone can tell me the "register mount" of the Edixa. Is similar to some other mount? Someone who has adapted a Edixa lens?
Thank you very much.

[woodrim]

Let's see if I remember correctly. I believe Edixa is the designation of the M42 mount line of Schneider - Kreuznach lenses.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Close.

Edixa was a SLR with the M42 mount. Schneider supplied lenses for it so you will find Schneider lenses with names like Edixa-Xenar on them.

[enliten]

I can confirm this, I have an enna lithagon in exida mount (is m42 screw). Reaches infinity with a m42 adapter.

[luisalegria]

Edixa was M42 and the register was the same.
It had one minor quirk though. The mount was a bit skewed vs normal M42 so the "top" of the lens would not be where one might expect. This could be a problem of using an Edixa mount lens on a normal M42 film camera, as the stop down pin would sometimes be in the wrong place. On digital with M42 adapter it will just look a little funny.

[Mos6502]

The mount on normal Edixa SLRs is an M42 mount, as already pointed out, with the screw started about 10 degrees off from "normal" for M42, but the register is the same.

However, the Edixa-Rex cameras had a proprietary bayonet mount.

[francotirador]

Unfortunately this lens is a bayonet, might Exakta - Praktina?
I thought it could be Edixa but from what you tell me, is not it.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Not Praktina. Need better pictures to identify. I suspect it might be M42 with an adapter screwed on it.

[francotirador]

[Lloydy]

This is the M42 mount of my 100mm Schacht, it looks a lot like yours. I think there's an adapter screwed on?

[iangreenhalgh1]

[Mos6502]

That's not an edixa-rex bayonet either.

After looking around, I believe this is the Exakta Twin TL mount. Take a look at this and note the positions of the screw and diaphragm plunger:


http://viewitem.eim.ebay.hu/Exakta-Twin-TL-Outfit--Exakta-Real-Lens-Mount--/180928069357/item/index.en-US.html

[francotirador]

[bmwtraveler]

from 1966 Edixa-Rex cameras, B,D,CDS,TTL, used edixa bayonet,cameras could use m42 lens too

[luisalegria]

I think you are right, its the Exakta Real - Twin TL mount.
I.e., the uncommon "western" Exakta.

This is not easy to adapt properly as its quite different from the original "Eastern" Exakta.
None of the usual Exakta - anything else adapters will work.

There is a rare "Eastern" Exakta to "Western" Exakta adapter that I have been looking for. But that is just for fitting the usual "Eastern" style lenses to the Real/Twin TL camera.

The reverse is not possible as the Western Exakta mount is larger in diameter than the Eastern.

In fact I have a Twin TL I have been fixing up (ugly cosmetics, but works well; I had to change the prism with a spare from a Ricoh TLS - they are both from Cosina !). It has a 55/1.4 lens with this mount of course. I will see if there is some easy way to put the lens on a PK or Nikon mount.

[Mos6502]

The easiest conversion would be to find a broken Schacht from the same era and swap the M42 mount over. But given that this is only a Travenar and not particularly rare, you may as well just look for a good M42 version and sell this one to somebody with an Exakta Real/Twin TL.

[francotirador]

What I need to know is if it works at 44mm, as the Exakta East and change the mount for one Canon EOS.

[Mos6502]

If you're going to change the mount the flange distance is irrelevant really. All you need to know is that the rear element will clear the mirror, and it will.

Although I will repeat that it will be much simpler to just find the M42 version and use an adapter. It's not an uncommon lens in M42.

[francotirador]

[DR.JUAN]

[francotirador]

Well, I've bought. I show later adaptation.