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simonkimber
Joined: 07 Sep 2015 Posts: 4 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:34 pm Post subject: What lens mount is this - exkta or miranda? |
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simonkimber wrote:
Hi there, I'm new on here, so apologies if the answer is obvious - but this seems to be a very rare lens.
Picked this up at a car boot sale for £4 and would like to make it work. Its a Mayfair Crystar 135mm f3.5 lens, I guess from the mid 60s.
All I could find is that Mayfair was the UK distributer and that the lens was possibly a Soligar. The base of the lens appears to be a T-mount and then attached is a strange mount Ive not seen. Ive had a look online and it looks like either a Miranda or Exkta mount.
Any advice? Thoughts? I plan to get an adapter and try it out on my Fuji X-Pro 1
Thanks in advance
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notko
Joined: 22 Apr 2014 Posts: 54 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: What lens mount is this - exkta or miranda? |
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notko wrote:
simonkimber wrote: |
Hi there, I'm new on here, so apologies if the answer is obvious - but this seems to be a very rare lens.
Picked this up at a car boot sale for £4 and would like to make it work. Its a Mayfair Crystar 135mm f3.5 lens, I guess from the mid 60s.
All I could find is that Mayfair was the UK distributer and that the lens was possibly a Soligar. The base of the lens appears to be a T-mount and then attached is a strange mount Ive not seen. Ive had a look online and it looks like either a Miranda or Exkta mount.
Any advice? Thoughts? I plan to get an adapter and try it out on my Fuji X-Pro 1
Thanks in advance
Simon |
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notko
Joined: 22 Apr 2014 Posts: 54 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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notko wrote:
Hello simonkimber,
Reposted you. Anti spam measure. First post - no pictures, no links. They will show on your following posts.
As to the mount, it looks more like Minolta SR to me. |
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Tervueren
Joined: 18 May 2011 Posts: 1177 Location: West Sussex, United Kingdom
Expire: 2014-11-08
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Tervueren wrote:
Looks like an Exakta mount with a Minolta adapter to me |
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tb_a
Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 3678 Location: Austria
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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tb_a wrote:
This silver item is definitely the original Minolta adapter to fit Exakta lenses to Minolta SR mount (MC/MD) cameras (I have the same).
So if you put it back together you will either need a Minolta SR to Fuji adapter or if you detach the Minolta adapter from the EXA bayonet then you would need an EXA to Fuji adapter.
Both would work. _________________ Thomas Bernardy
Manual focus lenses mainly from Minolta, Pentax, Voigtlaender, Leitz, Topcon and from Russia (too many to be listed here). |
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simonkimber
Joined: 07 Sep 2015 Posts: 4 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:06 pm Post subject: What lens mount is this - exkta or miranda? |
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simonkimber wrote:
That's great everyone - thank you - I will get a Minolta to Fuji adapter as a friend is giving me a Minolta md 50mm f1.7 lens - so the one adapter will work with both lenses - brilliant.
Now to see what the lens is actually like! Can't find anything on it - but will give it a go! It has a slight bit of haze in one corner, but otherwise seems good.
Thanks everyone - much head scratching solved
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luisalegria
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6602 Location: San Francisco, USA
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Nice find.
The Exakta-Minolta adapters aren't that easy to find. Certainly worth more than the lens.
They are very useful for getting old Exakta lenses on working traditional film bodies.
Minoltas are the best/most modern cameras for this. The other make that can be used is Miranda, but its harder to find a fully featured, functional Miranda. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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tb_a
Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 3678 Location: Austria
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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tb_a wrote:
luisalegria wrote: |
Nice find.
The Exakta-Minolta adapters aren't that easy to find. Certainly worth more than the lens.
They are very useful for getting old Exakta lenses on working traditional film bodies.
Minoltas are the best/most modern cameras for this. The other make that can be used is Miranda, but its harder to find a fully featured, functional Miranda. |
I fully agree.
Here is mine, it's called "Minolta E-Adapter".
It's also quite useful to save on special EXA-adapters for other MC/MD compatible mounts. Especially when Minolta lenses are already in the collection.
There was also an original "Minolta M-Adapter" available to use M42 lenses on their MF cameras as well. I also have this adapter as old Minolta enthusiast.
The M-Adapter is especially useful to adapt M39 or M42 lenses to Minolta bellows. _________________ Thomas Bernardy
Manual focus lenses mainly from Minolta, Pentax, Voigtlaender, Leitz, Topcon and from Russia (too many to be listed here). |
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TrueLoveOne
Joined: 30 Sep 2012 Posts: 1839 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:37 am Post subject: |
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TrueLoveOne wrote:
Here are both, it's P-adapter by the way!
Original Minolta MD adapters by René Maly, on Flickr _________________ My Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chantalrene/
Sony A7, Canon 5D mkII, Minolta 7D + RD3000 and some more.....
Minolta and Konica collector.... slowly selling all the other stuff! |
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Lightshow
Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 3666 Location: Calgary
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Lightshow wrote:
Looks like a nice little preset lens _________________ A Manual Focus Junky...
One photographers junk lens is an artists favorite tool.
My lens list
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightshow-photography/ |
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tb_a
Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 3678 Location: Austria
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:16 am Post subject: |
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tb_a wrote:
TrueLoveOne wrote: |
Here are both, it's P-adapter by the way! |
Thank's for the correction. Mine is presently mounted on my Minolta bellows and hided behind a Pentax macro lens.
Actually I mixed that up. P stands for Pentax.
BTW, was there ever any other adapter available or are those the only two?
I never found any information on that nor did I ever see another one. _________________ Thomas Bernardy
Manual focus lenses mainly from Minolta, Pentax, Voigtlaender, Leitz, Topcon and from Russia (too many to be listed here). |
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dickb
Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 821
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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dickb wrote:
tb_a wrote: |
BTW, was there ever any other adapter available or are those the only two?
I never found any information on that nor did I ever see another one. |
There is a Leica thread mount L adapter, a CE adapter for the Minolta CE enlarging lenses (also m39 but with some sort of tab to block stray light coming in through the aperture dial) and a couple of M adapters for RMS mount macro lenses. |
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tb_a
Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 3678 Location: Austria
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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tb_a wrote:
dickb wrote: |
tb_a wrote: |
BTW, was there ever any other adapter available or are those the only two?
I never found any information on that nor did I ever see another one. |
There is a Leica thread mount L adapter, a CE adapter for the Minolta CE enlarging lenses (also m39 but with some sort of tab to block stray light coming in through the aperture dial) and a couple of M adapters for RMS mount macro lenses. |
Thanks for the info. Sounds all like bellows accessory. _________________ Thomas Bernardy
Manual focus lenses mainly from Minolta, Pentax, Voigtlaender, Leitz, Topcon and from Russia (too many to be listed here). |
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