Thanks Alan. The reason I believe this one was made by Tokina is several other Tokina lenses I see online that have very similar or the same design:
http://forum.mflenses.com/vemar-old-tokina-135-28-t38951.html https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-m42-mount-tokina-28mm-f3-lens-1806269079 Those are two examples but there are more. I might be wrong though! j -- Juan Buhler - http://www.juanbuhler.com On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 6:14 AM Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > Well done, Juan. If I'm not mistaken, Sears lenses were made by Ricoh > for Sears Merchandising so it is not OT! (Soligor lenses were made by > Tokina). I've seen some advertised in SA but wasn't tempted! Seems to be > much like the original Takumar lenses in operation. > > Alan C > > On 02-Apr-21 11:07 PM, Juan Buhler wrote: > > I suppose since this lens is M42 then it is on-topic enough to post here? > > I found this lens on ebay for not too much money, and thought it was > > interesting because I haven't seen many M42 preset lenses that weren't > made > > in the Soviet Union. > > > > Super short, 2'34" video: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgZP4iBRI6E > > > > I have another short video about the FA35 queued to be posted next week. > > I'm also open to suggestions, I have tons of lenses and it's hard to > choose > > which one to do next. What do you people think? > > > > Some candidates: > > > > K24/3.5 > > M24-35/3.5 > > Super Takumar 35/3.5 > > Super Takumar 28/3.5 > > Cheap/off brand 24/2.8 K mount (Marexar I think?) > > Kiron 28/2 (I think this one has haze though!) > > > > or even > > > > Minolta 50mm macro > > 50mm Summilux with old dead fungus (this will actually be super > interesting > > I think!) > > Industar 26 (50mm 2.8) > > Jupiter 8 (50mm 2) > > MIR-1B (37mm 2.8) > > > > Yes I guess I do have a problem... > > > > j > > -- > > Juan Buhler - http://www.juanbuhler.com > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
