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07-01-2009, 12:04 PM   #24
kuuan
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Originally Posted by georgweb View Post
Hi Joey,
I 2nd stevebrot's last comment. You can hardly go wrong with ANY 135mm lens.
and I 'third' that

135mm lenses must have been the easiest to make, they had been cheap but excellent performers, there harddly are any bad 135mm lenses. If they come cheap enough one may just buy any and may be in for a very positive surprise.

So it happened to me with a socalled 'Berolina 135/2.8' an old preset lens in M42 which I got for 2 or 3 USD off ebay:

sorry, currently I have only this single sample available to show here :


A socalled Tele-Kominar 135mm f3.5, another old preset in M42 I had found for 2 USD in a trash box in Osaka is also very good:


and a sample ( there are more at a set dedicated to this lens at my flickr site )


I prefer both the above mentioned over my S-M-C Takumar 135mm f3.5 and the also acclaimed Pentacon 135mm f2.8
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