Group, I'm looking to buy 35/28/24mm Ennalyt / Lithagon wide angle lens(es) in good useable condition. Please contact me using kds315 AT yahoo DOT com Thanks,...
Hello all, I'm continuing to rationalise my collection and have just put a rare 50mm f1.4 Olympus G Zuiko lens for m42 on ebay. Seller id: mikelf1972 Hopefully...
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In article <eg1u2q+4nc8@eGroups.com>, bigmikelf@... (bigmikelf) ... Bidding. If I don't get that, I'm interested in any Olympus FTL lens with...
Yeah... they are a pretty difficult species to track down. Took me 2 years to put my set toghether, piece by piece. Sometimes they do come up almost as a...
... looks like the new release Zeiss Planar 50/1.4 in M42 has hit the market.,,, B&H has begun taking orders for them at US$624 each. [Non-text portions of...
Here is an example of a machined double helical (double helicoid?) mount, which adapts a lens originally unintended, perhaps, for 35mm to our fave M42. ...
In a message dated 10/17/2006 3:10:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, taichung00@... writes: <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270037174799> ...
Probably the lens. For some strange reason (some say due to lower production volumes in the old days) ... lenses in the 70-85mm range seem to command higher...
Actually, the lens on eBay was 75mm. 77mm, f 1.1, was an example of a "fast" lens (Fuji) from a copy machine or some other non-photographic origin, which in my...
(In reply) - Although the price on EBay has risen lately, the Russian Helios-40 85mm f/1.5 was an oscilloscope lens adapted to M39, and therefore also to M42...
In a message dated 10/18/2006 7:08:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, kelvinlee@... writes: I have in effect, cored-out an old fujinon 55/2.2 lens keeping...
Very impressive price hikes from our former-Soviet-bloc suppliers, indeed. And a brilliant twist on the topic, noting an off-the-shelf, or PRE-adapted lens....
hi there! Some of the wedding photos I've shot with my helios-40-2 were rated by my friend "the loveliest photos of me ever". They have a character all their...
Hah! Check this: <http://cgi.ebay.com/brass-taylor-hobson-cooke-lens-F6-5-leica-mount_W0QQitem Z200036759204> Not what I had in mind, but get that 39mm-to-42mm...
Rats! That didn't work; sorry. This oddity is eBay item number 200036759204 No interest in selling or buying this; just saw it as a serendipitous sidebar to...
(In reply) - The Helios-40 in native M42 is near-impossible to find, but the M39's with adapter are around. I would never be using this lens at infinity, so...
I was hoarding disposable cameras for a while ... then I realise why I couldn't use them ... the working distances were too short! They wre rangefinder...
PVC pipe; wraping paper cardboard tubes, extension tube combos, pretty maids all in a row? Projection lenses -- the ugly ducklings at the very back of the very...
I finally come around and clean my batch of Triotars 135, and was brushing up on history and some info. Now I have 4 of these. While 2 of them had their...
One other reason why I can think that they may go down to f32 or f45 is... were the triotars ever sold also as barrel lenses for use with 4x5 cameras? The...
Well since the triotar in 35mm had its own unique pre-set mount so its probably not a case of reusing anything. NOw the lens normally goes to f/22, and as I...
It had been reported that the earlier Asahiflex lenses could be modified for the new M42 by bushing the threads. This lens appears to be one of those. Bob ... ...
Thank you, Bob,
This is the only info that I have, probably made by tomioka in the 70's. I'm looking for a user opinion, Is a good lenses? What about bokeh...
Why does it remind me of the J-9? :D wink wink "Forgive your enemies-but only after you've given them a couple of swats." (tip #18 of A Cat's Little...
I've just bought a Chinon Memotron II (relabled as a Revueflex 5005) with the intention of getting into the M42 world and saving up for a fast portrait lens....