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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
mazgier wrote:
caspert79 wrote:
Love your samples. Can you show some more?


Take a look here: - Flickr -


Very nice.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tonight I added a 28mm f/2.8 Minolta MD III (49mm filter threads) to the collection. Arrives Wednesday or Thursday.
Paid just over £20 and it looks pristine.


PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sigma Super-Wide II 24mm f/2.8.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Vintage_Photographer wrote:
Tonight I added a 28mm f/2.8 Minolta MD III (49mm filter threads) to the collection. Arrives Wednesday or Thursday.
Paid just over £20 and it looks pristine.


Tell us if this is the 5 or 7 elements computation and how it behaves.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 25mm f4 M42


PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
caspert79 wrote:
Sigma Super-Wide II 24mm f/2.8.


Very nice lens, this was my first 24mm. Later I got Cosinon-W 24mm f2.8, Makinon 24mm f2.8 and Tokina RMC 24mm f2.8 but still find Sigma the best out of this 4 (mostly because of its sharpness and colors wide open)


PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
caspert79 wrote:
Sigma Super-Wide II 24mm f/2.8.


https://forum.mflenses.com/sigma-super-wide-ii-12-8-f24mm-t85219.html


PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
DrBB wrote:
caspert79 wrote:
Sigma Super-Wide II 24mm f/2.8.


Very nice lens, this was my first 24mm. Later I got Cosinon-W 24mm f2.8, Makinon 24mm f2.8 and Tokina RMC 24mm f2.8 but still find Sigma the best out of this 4 (mostly because of its sharpness and colors wide open)


Yes, it was on my list for a while. I’m curious!


PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
LittleAlex wrote:
caspert79 wrote:
Sigma Super-Wide II 24mm f/2.8.


https://forum.mflenses.com/sigma-super-wide-ii-12-8-f24mm-t85219.html


Thank you, looks good!


PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
lumens pixel wrote:
Vintage_Photographer wrote:
Tonight I added a 28mm f/2.8 Minolta MD III (49mm filter threads) to the collection. Arrives Wednesday or Thursday.
Paid just over £20 and it looks pristine.


Tell us if this is the 5 or 7 elements computation and how it behaves.


Arrived and after lightly cleaning the lenses it's pretty good.

As far as I can tell it's the 5/5 version with serial number 9034xxx. As an unexpected bonus it came with the lens hood as well!

Put it on my Fuji X-T4 and very quickly compared with the 18-135 Fuji lens I have.

It's marginally less sharp than that (which in my experience my copy is very sharp). Compared to my 25mm and 27mm TT Artisan lens and it beats both.

Also compared to Sigma 28-70 (beat that easily) and Pentagon 28mm f/2.8 which was also inferior to the Minolta.
Finally compared to 35-70 MD which the 28 was inferior to in terms of sharpness but not by a lot.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Damn G.A.S.! Hopefully this is the last one for, at least, next few months

Carl Zeiss Jena 25mm f4 M42 - with some flaws (haze/fog at the edge of the front element) but very well usable, even without CLA



PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This lens is on my wish list for a long time. It is a pretty good present for myself.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
[quote="calvin83"]This lens is on my wish list for a long time. It is a pretty good present for myself.
/quote]

I have a very close serial number to your copy (553572) it is a quite an interesting lens, my copy had bubbly and swirly bokeh together and decent IQ for the period. The Perfex version is easier than the Clarus MS35 version to adapt, as the mount can easily be removed from the camera and glued to a helicoid. I managed to get a completely mangled camera for $12 and used that.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Super cosina 100-500 f5,6 - 8. Supposedly the best version, but with a bit of fungus between the first and 2nd elements, which seemed to be glued.

Tokina RMC 500mm f8 mirror. To add to my mirror lenses collection, being number 17. (so far, 13 are crap. Wink)

I'll test these 2 later.

Last edited by Phalbert on Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:03 pm; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Alun Thomas wrote:

I have a very close serial number to your copy (553572) it is a quite an interesting lens, my copy had bubbly and swirly bokeh together and decent IQ for the period. The Perfex version is easier than the Clarus MS35 version to adapt, as the mount can easily be removed from the camera and glued to a helicoid. I managed to get a completely mangled camera for $12 and used that.

Great to hear you got the same lens! Only a handful of this lens were made. It is highly possible that all Perfex Rapter SNs starts with 5535.

I think my friend might be able to help me making an adapter for it without the need to take the helicoid from the camera. I think it will be interesting to compare it to the Kodak 47mm f/2 which is also pretty nice lens made in U.S.A.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 58mm f1.2

Minolta 58/1.2 by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr

chrysanthemums by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr


PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
pepperberry farm wrote:
Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 58mm f1.2

Minolta 58/1.2 by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr

chrysanthemums by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr


Nice!


PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
picked up this nice viewfinder magnifier. Fits an 18mm viewfinder - anyone know what camera that is (my pentax is ~20mm)?



PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This one:


#1


PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
pepperberry farm wrote:
Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 58mm f1.2

chrysanthemums by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr


One of the Rokkor classics! Enjoy it Wink


Oldhand wrote:
This one:

#1


I'm always refraining from such lenses because getting one would mean getting an 8x10 inch camera as well. Which, of course, should be used - and I simply don't have the means to travel with such a monster!

That said, I have a 13x18 cm Sinar with a few lenses (Super Angulons 75mm and 121 mm, Tessar 21cm, Symmar 240mm, APO Ronar 300mm, and the APO Skopars 30cm and 45 cm), and I may get a a corresponding enlarger as well. Especially the Super Angulons should be fun on 13x18 cm!

S


PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oldhand wrote:
This one:


#1


Interesting!
Tell us a bit more about this.
Kind of curious about that shutter now Wink
With that mix of parts, is the F/L still 250mm?

-D.S.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tamron 200mm f3.5 870Au
Sears 135mm f2.8 (Dented filter ring, bought specifically to practice fixing with a lens vice)

On the way:
Nikkor-P 105mm f2.5 (Turbo fungus)
Pentax S-M-C 50mm f1.4


PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Doc Sharptail wrote:
Oldhand wrote:
This one:


#1


Interesting!
Tell us a bit more about this.
Kind of curious about that shutter now Wink
With that mix of parts, is the F/L still 250mm?

-D.S.


It is a standard copal shutter, but from a Nikor lens originally, and one of the latest versions of the copal shutter.
All copal shutters in each size are the same except for the series. This is a series 3 as far as I am aware. Also copal shutters came in different standard sizes for the lens manufacturers to match their lenses to - sized 0-3s
see:
https://skgrimes.com/shutters/
There are several Fujinon 250mm lenses for large format but not all will cover 10X8.
Fujinon produced several different 250mm but with different image circles, some with and some without shutters.
see:
http://www.subclub.org/fujinon/byfl.htm
This one does cover 10X8, is in a Copal number 1 shutter, and if I ever get the camera that I'm making finished, it will go on it Smile
Tom


PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
pepperberry farm wrote:
Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 58mm f1.2

Minolta 58/1.2 by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr

chrysanthemums by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr


Lovely shot of the flowers, that lens caertainly has some great qualities.

I thought I had that lens, but I haven't - ithe lens I have is a Haiou 64 50 / 2 which is a Chinese lens made by Seagull that was either a copy of the Minolta or made under licence from Minolta, so now I'm wondering if the Haiou is a copy of the Minolta - or - a copy of the Russian Helios 44M, which is what I suspected?

Can you post pictures of the lens please, I'm intrigued Question Here's the Haiou, a solid lump of glass and brass.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oldhand wrote:
This one does cover 10X8, is in a Copal number 1 shutter, and if I ever get the camera that I'm making finished, it will go on it Smile Tom


That's a beautiful work of art as far as the glass goes.
Hope you get to it one of these days with a camera for it.

Played around a bit with a 8" x 10" in college. Didn't make that many images with it as access to hanger type tanks was severely limited on campus. Inquiries for box hanger tanks drew blank stares at most of the local camera shops. (this was at the height of the 35mm SLR craze in the late 70's)

I remember one of the lenses being a 250 mm nikkor, but not much else.
Better than decent contact prints off the Pan-X negs. I was hard pressed to find grain anywhere on the image.
There was no 8" x 10" enlarger on campus, either.

-D.S.
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