A collection of Russian silver gears

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Hello all,

I took a photo of those chrome Russian lenses and found them look like expensive British silver gears from a distance. :D

Cheers and enjoy,


Zhang
 
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Wow, that's shiny :eek: Do you know what brand they are?

Maybe you even know what they use to clean them :p ;)

Joris
 
Blindingly beautiful. What on earth is that monster in the back?
 
Blindingly beautiful. What on earth is that monster in the back?

Looks like the Jupiter 6 180mm f/2.8 lens for the m39 mount Zenit SLR.

henry
 
jorisbens said:
Wow, that's shiny :eek: Do you know what brand they are?

Maybe you even know what they use to clean them :p ;)

Joris
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Hi, I know all the brand names, Jupiter-6 180/2.8, Helios-40 85/1.5, Tair-11 133/2.8, Jupiter-9 85/2, Industar-29 2.8/80,Openar 45/2,...
I used a piece of chammy to polish them, that is why they look so shiny. :)
 
A less common rigid Industar-22 mounted on a rangefinder coupled TK-2 D 2X teleconverter of excellent quality.
 
Cool collection Zhang!

Do you know if that teleconverter was ever made in Contax/Kiev mount?
 
varjag said:
Cool collection Zhang!

Do you know if that teleconverter was ever made in Contax/Kiev mount?
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Probably not. At least I havn't heard of or seen one yet. The LTM version is also quite rare.

Cheers

Zhang
 
Alex Shishin said:
Otliichno! Ruskaii obektiivi!
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To give you an idea how good a Ruskii objective could be, here is a moon shot with the famous MTO 1100/10.5 mirror + a 2X teleconverter. Camera is a Canon 300D.
 
Zhang, don't look now but the serial number of the J-6 you "X'd" out in your message text is clearly visible in your picture! ;)

The J-6 dwarfs even the Helios-40 which is a large chunk of metal and glass itself. I have two of the 40's, both in 39mm thread mount. The worst thing about them is the odd 66mm filter size. Luckily, I have both sets complete and in perfect condition.

Walker
 
doubs43 said:
Zhang, don't look now but the serial number of the J-6 you "X'd" out in your message text is clearly visible in your picture! ;)


Walker
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Oooops! I will be arrested soon for releasing a top secret. :rolleyes:
 
Now a shot of part of my Soviet Contax rangefinder cameras collection. I still miss those 6-7 pre-1950 Kiev 2s that I let go for only $ 5-10 each a few years back. :bang:

Cheers

Zhang
 
We should call an ambulance!!! You're in a very late stage of GAS :D ;)

P.S.: I'm just saying this because I'm very jealous about your beautiful collection ;)
 
jorisbens said:
We should call an ambulance!!! You're in a very late stage of GAS :D ;)

P.S.: I'm just saying this because I'm very jealous about your beautiful collection ;)
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That serious?! What is GAS? I do think these look better and more useful than those early Canon Hansa or J-IIs. :) :D

Cheers,

Zhang
 
Flow said:
So many cameras... So scary...


Oh the moon shot is pretty nice...


Flowen
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Thanks for the kind words!

P.S. I think Siberian tigers look very cool, but a Nile crocodile is ugly...

Zhang
 
Now, a group of huge black ones. Most are SLR lenses but can be adapted to use on a digital rangefinder. The longest in size is a Carl Zeiss Jena 500/8 Fernobjektive and the biggiest is a Medium format 1000mm F8 Chinese mirror lens of excellent quality, and the heaviest is the MTO 1000A of 3,500 grams without case. The rarest I believe is a prototype Chinese 35mm Movie zoom lens F25-80 1:2.5 S/N 72001 and the 1000/8 mirror lens. All those 35MM Zeiss prime movie lenses can be used on a Epson RD-1 type of cameras with an adaptor ring.

Cheers

Zhang
 
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