Quote: Matthew: Osawa was one of the few manufacturers to support Mamiya's 35mm SLR efforts in the 1980's. Basically you had about a dozen lenses from Mamiya and half a dozen from Osawa to choose from. Otherwise it was 42mm thread adaption. The lenses were clearly different and the Osawa lenses I had were reasonable. The ZE-X camera body was bloody good.
Not really an answer for you. Sorry!
Matthew, that does help me. I was aware of the connection to Mamiya from the late 60's, but did not know this connection lasted until, or at least reconnected again, in the 80s--thank you.
Ernest
Quote: Canada_Rockies: Yes, I googled it later and discovered that the lenses from Chinon were Chinon rather than Chinar. My bad. Sorry.
No, not at all--in fact, the first thing I did was to Google it too. The names are very close and leads one to believe there is some connection. To be honest, I am not convinced they are not connected, yet anyway.
I just can not find enough facts.