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| 02-14-2022, 06:03 PM - 4 Likes | #4141 |
| Staff note: This post may contain affiliate links, which means Pentax Forums may earn a small commission if a visitor clicks through and makes a purchase. If you would like to support the forum directly, you may also make a donation here.  Originally posted by MXLX  Okay, reaching out to the Industar 50-2 aficionados: Is there a difference in quality or desirability between the versions with Cyrillic markings vs English? Given the type of lens we're talking and the overall rendition, do you bother with a filter? Hood? If so on either of those, where do you find such a thing?. The ones I've found on the Bay are capless; where would one score a 35.5mm lens cap? But...asking for a friend. Not really in acquisition mode...  A regular gallon milk jug cap can be persuaded to slip-fit over the aperture ring of my Industar-50, although this kind of thing is why I have a 3d-printer. I have no idea on any differences between the English and Cyrillic. I would expect better build quality from Cyrillic ones, since they tend to be older, but not always. All the late-production Soviet lenses I've acquired had crap build quality, but optically, they were fine. Just poor fit-and-finish, gritty loose focus, etc. I think your friend should stop thinking so long and hard about a ~$25 purchase.  ---------- Post added 02-14-22 at 06:17 PM ---------- Helios-40 and the usual suspects on Sunday morning. I should never have paid as much as I did for this lens, but the madness passed years ago and the lens is still in the cupboard, so I might as well use it.     | |
| 02-14-2022, 08:11 PM | #4142 |
| 02-21-2022, 06:50 PM - 5 Likes | #4143 |
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It's true, almost all of them are in Russia or Ukraine, but even if you don't want to take a chance there, they still come up in Poland, or even Kazakhstan (well, there's been some recent unrest there, too). Your friend should order one, forget about it, and get a happy surprise in two or four weeks.  Took mine out again yesterday morning. It's an early silver Industar-50, from 1959, not a -2. I'm not sure if it's any better or worse than the newer ones, but it's just as fun.   | |
| 05-11-2022, 05:36 PM - 4 Likes | #4146 |
| Originally posted by pepperberry farm MC Kaleinar-5N 100mm f2.8 Thanks for bumping the thread. I haven't touched my Russian glass since February 24th. Not that it means anything, whether or not I use some old lenses made before I was born... but it feels icky. I gave my collection a second look and found that three of my Soviet lenses were made in Ukraine. One of them has really grown on me in the past few months, as I take it out again and again: the Helios 103 53mm f/1.8, which was made at Arsenal like your Kaleinar. It was designed to replace the Jupiter 8 as the stock lens on Kiev-4M cameras. My copy is from 1984. Rendering is a little too ragged for my taste wide-open, but I like it very much at f/2.8, so that's what I keep it set at most of the time.  It's very small and unobtrusive. Great to carry anywhere.   | |
| 05-11-2022, 06:26 PM | #4147 |
| Originally posted by scratchpaddy Great samples! I especially like the first one, of road with the foreground in focus. I had not heard of this lens. I see they were made at the Arsenal plant in Kyiv. Thanks for bumping the thread. I haven't touched my Russian glass since February 24th. Not that it means anything, whether or not I use some old lenses made before I was born... but it feels icky. I gave my collection a second look and found that three of my Soviet lenses were made in Ukraine. One of them has really grown on me in the past few months, as I take it out again and again: the Helios 103 53mm f/1.8, which was made at Arsenal like your Kaleinar. It was designed to replace the Jupiter 8 as the stock lens on Kiev-4M cameras. My copy is from 1984. Rendering is a little too ragged for my taste wide-open, but I like it very much at f/2.8, so that's what I keep it set at most of the time. It's very small and unobtrusive. Great to carry anywhere. thank you... great shots with the 103... I have another Arsenal lens coming later this week: a Mir-24 35mm f2 | |
| 05-12-2022, 05:51 AM - 1 Like | #4151 |
| Originally posted by pepperberry farm MC Kaleinar-5N 100mm f2.8 | |
| 05-12-2022, 05:55 AM | #4152 |
| Originally posted by Andrew_Oid The photo of the road is very atmospheric and has a great sense of topography. | |
| 05-13-2022, 06:33 AM | #4153 |
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MC Kaleinar-5N 100mm f2.8  | |
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