The Off-Brand Club!! - Page 5

*xs400* · 07-08-2008, 02:11 PM

Rexatar 55mm f/1.7
Another M42 lens mounted on my K100D using a Pentax made adaptor. Got these shots today, just to post on this thread. This lens does not get much use.

Big Dave · 07-08-2008, 03:56 PM

Here is a shot with one of my Soligor 35mm f2.8 T4 mount lens. Taken at f8/125 400iso. I purchace it off feabay for $4.95 including shipping with T4 M42 adapter. I bought a second one for $6.99 shipped and it not only came with the adapter, but had a real Pentax K-mount adapter screwed on it. Wow that was a good deal. The both do ok on my K100D super.

stevebrot · 07-08-2008, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by xs400

Rexatar 55mm f/1.7
Another M42 lens mounted on my K100D using a Pentax made adaptor. Got these shots today, just to post on this thread. This lens does not get much use.

Do you have a photo of this lens? I am curious as to whether it is similar to the one I owned back in the early 70's.

Steve

RoxnDox · 07-08-2008, 06:38 PM

It's a teleconverter instead of a lens, but what the heck it's got glass in it...

And it's definitely an off brand - I've never been able to find anything about this. It came with the wife {mumble} years ago, along with her ME Super, an SMC-M 80-200, an SMC-M 135, and a few other bits and pieces...

Shots are a shot of a wall decoration using the old 50mm 1:2 kit lens, and the same lens with the TC in place, and the TC itself. Ambient lighting (terrible basement lights, overhead CF bulb + a halogen desklamp), tripod, AV mode on my K100D. Jpegs straight from camera except resizing and a touch of sharpening on the TC photo.

So, anyone ever heard of this manufacturer?

Jim

Quicksand · 07-08-2008, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by Quicksand

Alas, no. It is a "P" Rikenon, which I believe is a step down from the XR. Nonetheless, it's a reasonably sharp little lens. I'll post a pic with it if I can find one.

Here we go, the Rikenon "P" 50mm f/2 combined with the Vivitar 2X Macro Focusing Teleconverter (obviously dialed back a bit from 1:1).

(K20D, ISO200, 1/250s, f/don't recall, blah blah blah.)

*xs400* · 07-09-2008, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by stevebrot

Do you have a photo of this lens? I am curious as to whether it is similar to the one I owned back in the early 70's.

Steve

Steve,
Let us know if this looks like the lens you had in the 70's.
Frank

stevebrot · 07-09-2008, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by xs400

Steve,
Let us know if this looks like the lens you had in the 70's.
Frank

Ha! Ha! That is the one...DEJA VU! I took many pictures with this lens, though all that I have now are about 600 slides. If my scanner did not suck when trying to scan Kodachrome, I would upload a vintage sample.

Steve

*Blue* · 07-09-2008, 03:25 PM

I guess this is the most odd lens I have.

This is a Sun Hi-Tele Zoom and is built like a tank. It is 85-210 f4.8. The trigger stops it down to the setting on the dial or by a shutter release cable. It is m42 and am the second owner of it. It came with a Spotmatic F system I got from a friend who acquired it while in the army in Nam ~107-71.

*hinman* · 07-09-2008, 07:35 PM

A great thread for a lot of off brand but interesting lens. I have a few in my camera gear. The first one that I like to introduce to others is Spiratone Plura-Coat 20mm f/2.8. It is in K mount and manual focus lens.

Spiratone Plura-Coat 20mm f/2.8

And it take reasonable landscape pictures

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Works quite well on Film
Spiratone 20mm f/2.8 with Pentax SuperProgram

babelphotos · 07-09-2008, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Arjay Bee

I was wondering where I would post some of my odd lens images. i just put this lens up in the bokeh thread but will add a couple of examples here:
Isco Gottingen Tele Westanar 135/3.5 15 aperture blades - a relative of the Schneider-Kreuznach company - bought on Pentax H2 mounted on bellows all in good working order from Eekbay for a song. It is a bit soft at all apertures but I like it!

Ah man......i have this camera.
Glad to see someone else as it too

*hinman* · 07-09-2008, 07:45 PM

My oldest lens is Schneider 135mm f/3.5 (M42) which is a M42 lens. I always enjoy the richness in color with this lens, it has nice bokeh and color.

#1 sunset over highway (uncropped)

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#2 wired sunset

#3

#4

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1979w72 · 07-09-2008, 07:54 PM

I'll add another Spiratone to the mix, a 12mm f8 FE T-mount.

stevebrot · 07-09-2008, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by hinman

A great thread for a lot of off brand but interesting lens. I have a few in my camera gear. The first one that I like to introduce to others is Spiratone Plura-Coat 20mm f/2.8. It is in K mount and manual focus lens.

Originally Posted by hinman

My oldest lens is Schneider 135mm f/3.5 (M42) which is a M42 lens. I always enjoy the richness in color with this lens, it has nice bokeh and color.

Hin, you are always full of surprises. To you goes the special prize of posting the first images on this thread from a Spiratone lens. When I was in high school, Spiratone would have about a dozen pages of ad in the backs of the photo magazines selling all kinds of stuff related to photography including their own brand of lenses. Ultra long glass...they had it (cheap too!). Fisheyes...they had those too (also cheap). From what I can see, your Spiratone is a keeper. Good work!

Edit: Mea Culpa! I am wrong! I had forgotten that the true honor of the first Spiratone post on this thread belongs to wlank and his Spiratone 28mm T-mount. Sorry Hin...you will have to give back the trophy...

Steve

BTW...I did a search on the bay and found quite a number of Spiratone products...Click here to see an example of the full range of what they sold.

Miserere · 07-09-2008, 08:11 PM

How about a Makinon 135mm f/2.8 with Macro Focussing? Is that wierd enough?

I am giving it away for shipping costs in the marketplace...and nobody wants it!

Here is what I wrote about it:

I got this lens with stuck, not sticky, aperture blades. I opened it up to clean, and realised I was out of acetone, so I cleaned what I could with a bit of alcohol and closed it up. The blades were now sticky, not stuck, and it could be used, mostly wide open. When I got acetone and tried to open it up again, I failed

So, if somebody wants to try to open it and clean up the blades, they are welcome to do so for the price of shipping. At the very least you can use it wide open. The macro operates by moving the front element forward; not the best method, but it's something.

I took a pic of my cute bears with it wide open, and I think they look pretty damn good (click through for a larger version):

stevebrot · 07-09-2008, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by 1979w72

I'll add another Spiratone to the mix, a 12mm f8 FE T-mount.

The famous Spiratone Fisheye! If I remember right this lens makes a round image on 35mm film with a full 180 degree FOV. Very cool and very reasonably priced in its day. (Still very cool to be honest...)

Steve