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Amazing Lens Found In Bag Of Junk!
Amazing Lens Found In Bag Of Junk!
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A recent random ebay purchase contained a big surprise – one of the nicest vintage lenses I’ve shot was waiting inside!
It’s a beautiful old lens that I’d heard a lot about but never shot before. This company’s vintage lenses are so popular that the company has re-started and is now producing…
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I was hoping to see the pancolar 50mm f1.4 🙂
Unique and interesting channel.
I've been hearing some people are removing the glue from doublers witnin a lens group by cooking and later re-apply canadian glue. If you have the resources, will and time give it a go.
Few years back i got the Pentacon electric 135mm f2.8 for next to nothing, course it was fogged quite a bit. Razor sharp, but fogged. One of these days I hope I'll be not too lazy and actually clean it 😇
l had the same mamiya lens, impossible to find a adapter (and l tried) but l went on shapeways and 3d printed one.
I have a version of the lens that is made in Japan – how does it fit in with the German copies?
Nice video, and congratulations to your find!
I've got a Pentacon 135mm f/2.8 (15 blades, zebra version) and a Pentacon Auto MC 135mm f/2.8 (6 blades).
The 15 bladed zebra is quite long and heavy (506 g), but it's a fun lens, and the 6-bladed is shorter and a bit lighter (470 g).
Cheers!
That Vivitar PS35 is better than you think. I used to sell those…the lens is excellent.
I have the MOG Primotar which is the F/3,5 135mm. Also has 15 blades and fun wide open but also pretty damn sharp at F/8. Exacta mount so I use it on my film cameras and EM1 MkII.
Hi Nigel what a collection of good 135mm f 2.8 !!! I do hope you will be able to repair your minolta which is a good lens. For the Mamiya which is quite rare I am not sure you will be able to find an adaptor for this lens, perhaps a 3D print will be a solution(even if I don’t like… this) or buy a « for piece » Mamiya NC1000 to get the bayonet and do some DIY. On my side I love this focal and my favorites are ypthe canon FD 135mm f2.5 , the rather unknown Miranda f2.8, the best of the best ( but rather high priced) Nikon AF 135 f2 DC. Have a nice day.
The Mamiya lens looks a lot like a Mamiya 645 lens, but it's difficult to judge scale from the video. The 645 bayonet is about 62mm diameter. I have an M645 to Nikon F-mount adapter to which I can add another adapter to use on mirrorless.
I have several 135mm f/2.8 lenses which produce excellent quality imagery. I snared a 135mm f/2.8 Vivitar for $11 USD on the Goodwill Industries website.
The CS lens is for a 35mm camera. They dropped their 35mm's when they had financial problems and stuck to their amazing 120 cameras. They made lovely 35mm cameras. Can you get an M42 mount for it and use an M42>Sony?
I gave away my Meyer 135mm. lens many years ago much to my regret. It was the preset one and I had adaptors for M42 and Exakta for it. Your Mamiya lens is from the time the company decided like others e.g. Pentax, Olympus and even Practica to manufacture bayonet mount cameras rather than M42 in the belief that people wanted to change lenses more quickly. Other than that they also began to make smaller bodied SLRs. There was not so much gain in technical terms. You may be able to pick up one of those later Mamiya bodies but they rarely turn up. I still have the older M42 Mamiya which also had the benefit of spot metering . Hope you find a bayonet one but I doubt anyone makes an adaptor to use it on digital. In my humble opinion I thought the move by the aforementioned manufacturers was a misjudgement in an attempt to stop the poorer enthusiasts buying a betterM42 camera body and putting cheaper East German and Soviet lenses on it. Who knows ?
I have the auto tele rokkor-pf 135mm 2.8. I am happy with the quality of this lens. Hopefully you can fix your dream lens.
I own the earlier Pentacon 135mm f2.8 all-metal black version with the scalloped focus ring and pre-set aperture control at the front. MFD is 1.5 metres. Even after all these years I still can't believe how smoothly it operates. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Great video. As I was watching, I impulse bought my own copy of the Minolta 135.
This is the clickbait we love! 🙂 ps: do you know what could cause haze in the inner side of lenses? Is that fungus or something else? Was betting on a pentax M 100mm f4 macro but was hazy, and i don't know if it was a bargain or a piece if junk
It would be satisfying to try out that Vivitar point and shoot camera. Hopefully no battery leakage in the battery compartment.
found a canon fd 17mm f4 in good condition and some other stuff in a bag on a fleamarket, bought the bag for 10€
I have the zebra Meyer and It's great. And I have a minolta mc tele rokkor 135 2,8 from my first camera, also a great lens.
Hoping you can fix the Minolta 135.
There are expensive adaptors available for the Mamiya CS, I've had success with making my own adaptors for unusual mounts by chopping up an extension tube.
For a moment there, I was thinking I have a copy of your Minolta “dream lens”; but mine’s a MC Tele Rokkor PF 135mm f/2.8, not the MD.
The Mamiya lens was used on the 35mm Mamiya ZE cameras
Good evening Nigel,
A very interesting review.
In my humble opinion, the Meyer Optik 135mm lens you have purchased, is the best of the bunch.
If you unscrew the ring behind the aperture control, you will be able to substitute the existing M42 mount for the Exakta version. The 200mm lens offered the same facility, one lens would serve two camera systems. Carl Zeiss Jena offered the same facility on some of their optics, my 180 and 300mm Sonnars can be used with Pentacon 6, M42, and Exakta cameras, using the appropriate adaptors.
Mamiya 35 slrs were top quality.
According to the Camera Wiki site VEB dropped the Meyer name in 1971, after which they were branded Pentaconar, Pentacon or Prakticar.
Love the videos!
I used to have a Mamiya 645, the original model before they decided to cover them with nasty black plastic. If your lens is the same quality then you've got an outstanding bit of kit.
Nigel why not look for a basket case Minolta 135mm lens to hawk for parts? Good vlog.
I believe this is a lens bespoke to Mamiya NC 1000 and NC 1000S film SLR cameras. Looks in great condition 🙂
12:53 I love how it's the spitting image of its large brother, the Pentacon 300/4!