A strange LTM 28/8 Tessar

[darkkavenger]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-rare-wide-...ryZ30063QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I am quite intrigued by it. It seems very matching in the internal mechanism to my contax-mount tessar and looks different from the Orion-15 28/6. Any clues ??

 

[kbg32]

The only difference is that is most likely a fake. The distance numbers looked stamped, as per the Orion, which was soft aluminum.

 

[Santafecino]

One would want to see the distance marking. Russian lenses have an "M" for meters. German lenses have "m," which the Russians didn't use because "m" is "t" in cyrillic.

 

[darkkavenger]

I agree with the fact that the barrel finition is rather crude.

 

[John Robertson]

Don't think its an Orion, the back looks nothing like mine! Could be a remounted genuine lens, either done in early DDR or KMZ factory. Either way its an oddity.

 

[darkkavenger]

I enlarged those pics and the inner part looks exactly like my Tessar 28/8. The back photos (besides the mount of course) also seems to be matching. Anyway, I'm just being curious.

 

[mjflory]

Max, as I recall, David Murphy mentioned having a 28/8 Tessar (I thought at first he meant an 8cm/f2.8 Tessar!) but I don't remember if it was in LTM or Contax mount... Probably Contax, since I think we were discussing the Contax I'd just gotten and the one you bought!

 

[Jocko]

I've read that the Orion was derived from a specialist f8/2.8 designed for aerial use - I wonder if this is that lens?

Cheers, Ian

 

[darkkavenger]

I'll try to take some digishots tonight of my 2,8cm f/8 Tessar to show the similarities.

 

[Bill58]

What are the chances it's for real? Less than 1%. Look where it supposedly is-Moscow.