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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 1:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
BrianSVP wrote:
Wow, that design/naming shameless.
Reminds me of the old "Olympia," "Cannon," Nikkon" cameras that circulated in the 80s.

pepperberry farm wrote:
for my Fuji X-mount cameras:

Artralab Nocty-Nonikkor 50mm f1.2 by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr

Artralab Nocty-Nonikkor 50mm f1.2 by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr

Artralab Nocty-Nonikkor 50mm f1.2 by Pepperberry Farm, on Flickr



I was thinking that it's either a tribute lens.... or shameless knock-off...

no worries, though; it's producing tremendous photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pepperberryfarm/albums/72177720324418663/


PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 2:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lloydy wrote:
calvin83 wrote:
£60 for a Rubinar 300/4.5 is a bargain!!!


The Rubinar had been on sale for nearly a year, but it was listed as "Canon Lens" ( it had a Canon T mount ) and one poor photo. I'd seen it ages ago, but one night I looked at the photo a bit more closely and decided to go and have a look, it was just across the car park of the supermarket we use.
I soon had the £60 out, I didn't even bother haggling.


On my Pentax I had to add an extension piece to the lens and re-set the infinity focus, to clear the prism / flash housing nose of the camera. It's sat like that for years and I tried to re-set it to sit properly on Nikon, but the Ali-x supplied extension pieces for Nikon are for some unknown weirdo bayonet.
At the moment it's still at the K-mount setting and will work fine on a Canon EOS, too. I'll leave it at that and just use it on the 5Dii and anything but Nikon.


PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
pepperberry farm wrote:


no worries, though; it's producing tremendous photos:



I wonder what diaphragm was used for this photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pepperberryfarm/54385490458/in/album-72177720324418663

To me it looks, that however at the central part of the picture it is reasonably sharp, at the rims sharpness degrades considerably. Especially at the right side.


PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
How did you reset the focus on the rubinar @farside? I have the 500 -5.6 might be similar.


PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
LittleAlex wrote:
pepperberry farm wrote:


no worries, though; it's producing tremendous photos:



I wonder what diaphragm was used for this photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pepperberryfarm/54385490458/in/album-72177720324418663

To me it looks, that however at the central part of the picture it is reasonably sharp, at the rims sharpness degrades considerably. Especially at the right side.



that would be at f8 or maybe even f11...


PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ok, trying a post with images. Latest is Minolta CE 50mm f/2.8, Minolta 80mm f/5.6 and Fujinon 55mm f/1.6 M42 mount.

All images taken with Sony A7RIII

First one taken with Fujinon 55mm f/1.6 at 5.6


Second taken with Fujinon 55mm f/1.6 wide open


Third and forth with Minolta CE 50mm f/2.8 both wide open





I am going to have to visit the botanical gardens soon!


PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Forum is funny again. Dual.

-D.S.

Last edited by Doc Sharptail on Mon Mar 17, 2025 7:20 pm; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kenolta wrote:
Latest is Minolta CE 50mm f/2.8, Minolta 80mm f/5.6 and Fujinon 55mm f/1.6 M42 mount.
I am going to have to visit the botanical gardens soon!


Nice bullet cases! First I've seen from Minolta. Most often spotted with R/F or pre-A/I Nikkors, and some Leica lenses.
Enlarger lenses?
Minolta 50 shows real nice imagery.

-D.S.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Doc Sharptail wrote:
Kenolta wrote:
Latest is Minolta CE 50mm f/2.8, Minolta 80mm f/5.6 and Fujinon 55mm f/1.6 M42 mount.
I am going to have to visit the botanical gardens soon!


Nice bullet cases! First I've seen from Minolta. Most often spotted with R/F or pre-A/I Nikkors, and some Leica lenses.
Enlarger lenses?
Minolta 50 shows real nice imagery.

-D.S.


Yes, both Minoltas are m39 mount enlarger lenses. They needed a bit of cleaning, but are really easy to service! Apparently the bullet cases do not protect against everything. I used an m42 helicoid with a tiny m39-m42 adapter ring. I have had my eye on them since seeing simple.joy's posts and reading about them on the delta lenses site.


PostPosted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kenolta wrote:
Doc Sharptail wrote:


...
Minolta 50 shows real nice imagery.

-D.S.


Yes, both Minoltas ... I have had my eye on them since seeing simple.joy's posts and reading about them on the delta lenses site.


The Minolta enlarger lenses are pretty rare beasts, at least here in Europe where Schneider and Rodenstock were the norm. I have on, too, but not used it yet ... maybe it's the right time now, with all the flowers starting to appear Wink

S


PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Minolta MD 135mm F2.0. Stunning with the Sony A7-III


PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
AntonioS wrote:
Minolta MD 135mm F2.0. Stunning with the Sony A7-III


The three classical CaMiNikon 2/135mm lenses are really nice lenses indeed. They perform - at least at infinity - nearly identically, the Minolta having a slight edge on the other two. Bokeh is indistingushable as well Wink. In my opnion the Canon (smaller ans smoother focusing) in practical terms is the nicest, and the Nikkor (being a bit clumsy) the one I use the least. But the differences are small indeed ...

Of course the modern fast 135mm lenses are better in technical terms, but for b/w portraits the (relatively) small & "lightweight" vintage 2/135mm lenses are still a good choice.

S


PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Update on my Nikon AF 35-70/2.8. Unfortunately it had haze, and I had to return it. Apparent very common in this lens, so a warning to future buyers.
I then used my money to buy a Zuiko MC 100mm f/2.8. In had one before (not the MC though) and should have never sold it.


PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
caspert79 wrote:
Update on my Nikon AF 35-70/2.8. Unfortunately it had haze, and I had to return it. Apparent very common in this lens, so a warning to future buyers.

Yeah, I've two of them waiting to be cleaned ... thy, however, were for free, from the waste bin of a local photo store.

I then used my money to buy a Zuiko MC 100mm f/2.8. In had one before (not the MC though) and should have never sold it.[/quote]
Interesting Wink
Care to elaborate ...?

Thx Wink S


PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
stevemark wrote:
caspert79 wrote:
Update on my Nikon AF 35-70/2.8. Unfortunately it had haze, and I had to return it. Apparent very common in this lens, so a warning to future buyers.

Yeah, I've two of them waiting to be cleaned ... thy, however, were for free, from the waste bin of a local photo store.

I then used my money to buy a Zuiko MC 100mm f/2.8. In had one before (not the MC though) and should have never sold it.

Interesting Wink
Care to elaborate ...?

Thx Wink S[/quote]

Mechanically it’s a lovely made lens, very tiny and I like the aperture ring at the front. A joy to shoot with. Optically it’s pretty good as well, like most 100mm lenses.


PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Moeller Wedel Idemar 90mm f/3.5
The lens were made in the 1950th - 1960th for the Cambinox and all the lenses for this cameras are quiet rare.
Only 3000 cameras were made, means that max, 3000 of the 90mm lenses lenses were made.
The 90mm were the standard lens, it shows the identic scene like the 6x30 binocular of the Cambinox.

The lenses are well made, Moeller is known as an excellent maker of optical equipment like autocollimators, colposcopes and divices for the eye examination.

The frame size of the Cambinox were only 10x14mm but I want to see how the lens performs with a full frame camera.
So I gave the lens an M39 screw mount adapter to make it usable with my Sony A7 camera.

The lens covers the full frame, only the corners are a little bid darker but not black.
The image quality goes from nicely soft at full open until good sharpness when stoped down. It is an excellent potrait lens.



PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
nothing new in here since last month?

for shame.....

(:



I have a pair of lenses on the way here:


one Takumar 105mm f2.8 (preset version)

one Soligor C/D 200mm f2.8 P (Tokina-made)


PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
In the last ten days....Minolta 80-200 / f2.8, Minolta 100-200/ f4.5, Minolta 28 / f2.8......All Sony /Minolta A-Mount, used manual on MFT bodies or with a LA-EA4 Sony adapter on Sony A7ll, A6500, A6000.......Here is a short video I did on all three....https://youtu.be/1Ss5HLm0hfE?si=8ybCZ-qoPF_oHbWj

https://youtu.be/1Ss5HLm0hfE?si=8ybCZ-qoPF_oHbWj

Last edited by RoyB on Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:30 am; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Today I just ordered three DLK lenses from Ebay....Schneider 28mm f4 Retina-Curtagon , Voigtlander 50mm f2.8 Color-Skopar X Lens , Kodak Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Tele-Xenar f:4/135mm and an adapter for DLK to SonyE.......


PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Acquired for occupational therapy purposes:
-Nikkor AI 28mm f2.8 - Needs cleaning. Objective is resisting disassembly.
-Super-Takumar 35mm f3.5 - Aperture stuck. Appears rear element retainer is stuck as well, suspect liquid damage.
-Nikkor AF 80-200/2.8 - Arriving today, AF doesn't work. Don't have a way to test this functionality but I'll thoroughly inspect it and the price was right.

Also:
-Super-Canomatic 100mm f2 - Arriving today, no idea what to expect. Price was right. Have to resist the urge to (reversibly!) modify the mount for EF.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Okay the two arrivals came in. On initial inspection the Nikkor's manual focus and aperture are working, so it can live as an MF lens at least. The Super-Canomatic, though... It looks perfect, but the iris is stuck at f16. Playing with either aperture ring or control pin yields nothing. The aperture blades look clean and dry, so I'm a bit puzzled.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Canon FL 100 3,5. Seems to be a good lens.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mike Deep wrote:
Acquired for occupational therapy purposes:
-Nikkor AI 28mm f2.8 - Needs cleaning. Objective is resisting disassembly.


Try Richard Haw: https://richardhaw.com/2019/04/07/repair-nikkor-28mm-f-2-8-ai/


Mike Deep wrote:

-Nikkor AF 80-200/2.8 - Arriving today, AF doesn't work. Don't have a way to test this functionality but I'll thoroughly inspect it and the price was right.


They go for as low as CHF 125.-- here in Switzerland, fully functional, with guarantee from a local photo store ...

Mike Deep wrote:

-Super-Canomatic 100mm f2 - Arriving today, no idea what to expect. Price was right. Have to resist the urge to (reversibly!) modify the mount for EF.

Interesting lens - I never saw one ... maybe you can post an image of the lens? I have the corresponding Minolta MC 2/100mm from the same time frame, and hat one has a really smooth bokeh.

S


PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Richard Haw's site is a go-to whenever I'm working on Nikkors, but thank you.

There's some decent pictures of the Super-Canomatic 100mm f2 on KEH: https://www.keh.com/shop/canon-100mm-f-2-super-canomatic-r-lens-for-canon-r-series-58-703956.html

I've started disassembling mine, so the mount is off. With that done, a reversible conversion doesn't appear possible. The aperture pins both move freely but the diaphragm doesn't budge. Again, aperture looks clean as a whistle.

Edit: I kept playing with the Super-Canomatic and the aperture moved! After opening and closing it, it became apparent the blades have oil on them, it was just hidden between them. Given the state of the lens otherwise (excellent) and its value, I'm shelving it for now rather than sacrificing it to occupational therapy.


PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Canon FL 50 1,4 II; let us see how it competes against the NFD 50 1,8.
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