Not as rare as the above, but uncommon- especially outside of Japan.
Beautiful and sharp, Fujinon 5cm F2, and Ultron formula 6/5 design.
Beautiful and sharp, Fujinon 5cm F2, and Ultron formula 6/5 design.
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dexdog
Veteran
I have one of those, a great lens (for a 50).
Darinwc
Not left handed
I've been looking for one of those. I'll keep looking..
hilltime
Well-known
Bought this lens to accompany my other 5cm lenses for Leotax, and to satisfy my GAS for the Fujinon 5cm/ F1.2, which $wise has gotten to crazy price levels!
Miles.
Beamsplitter
For posterity, here's my serial # data for the Fujinon 5cm f2 LTM:
Earliest Known: 400013
Latest Known: 405104
Earliest Known: 400013
Latest Known: 405104
Mark240590
Soviet Shooter
Less about the lens and more the body being a rarity. Chased one of these for a good while now. A no name Contax (Kiev 4)
underlord
Well-known
MamiyaSuper16-1 by Philip McAllister, on FlickrNot my camera but loaned to me to 'have a look at' by a friend, so I did.
Alpsman
Well-known
Whadda cute little mechanical masterpiece !
Not my camera but loaned to me to 'have a look at' by a friend, so I did.
Mr_Flibble
In Tabulas Argenteas Refero
An X-mas gift to myself, is still in the mail....should arrive next week
Combat Graflex "Gulliver's Contax"....apparently I do want to mess with 70mm film.
Combat Graflex "Gulliver's Contax"....apparently I do want to mess with 70mm film.
underlord
Well-known
Fully functional too, as I remember. This was 2011 and I didn't know at the time that I could have run a film through it. Before I discovered film photographystore.com !
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
An X-mas gift to myself, is still in the mail....should arrive next week
Combat Graflex "Gulliver's Contax"....apparently I do want to mess with 70mm film.
Crazy cool! Now you just have to get the Navy 4x5 to compliment it.
Mr_Flibble
In Tabulas Argenteas Refero
Uhm...... it was missing the tag and it was repainted black for the civilian market originally..... I've put a reproduction USMC tag on it, instead of a USN.
Photo courtesy of my friend, Eric "Kaas" Sluis, Tanks in Town 2023 - Mons
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
FWIW, I did my Army time in a small town an hour south of Paris, d'Huison-Longueville par La Ferté-Alais. Patton went through that area on his drive on Germany. Some locals remembered and some of them were still grateful. They treated us with kindness and patience, often quite a bit more that we deserved. One fellow I served with had come through that town with Patton, and also had the Netherlands Orange Lanyard for exceedingly meritorious service. And he had the orders to prove it. Like almost all folks who had walked through hell he was very quiet about it and never brought it up. Just a quiet, cheerful nice man. U.S. ARMY WWII NETHERLANDS ORANGE LANYARD
So back in the mid 60's the folks in France were remembering and being kind. And they still are.
So back in the mid 60's the folks in France were remembering and being kind. And they still are.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Uhm...... it was missing the tag and it was repainted black for the civilian market originally..... I've put a reproduction USMC tag on it, instead of a USN.
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Photo courtesy of my friend, Eric "Kaas" Sluis, Tanks in Town 2023 - Mons
You dog! I should have known. If you get any more gear you can open up an Army - Navy Surplus store. ;o) Great collection.
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Mr_Flibble
In Tabulas Argenteas Refero
Hah! Step right up folks! (Well, not really)
My little Signal Photographic Company display in the Overloon War Museum, December 2024
....also known as "I brought too much sh!t again!"
The folks in The Netherlands still do too. Though the living memory is disappearing. 🙁
Retro-Grouch
Veteran
Enjoy! Who needs those wimpy little "Texas Leicas", anyway?An X-mas gift to myself, is still in the mail....should arrive next week
Combat Graflex "Gulliver's Contax"....apparently I do want to mess with 70mm film.
wes loder
Photographer/Historian
My 50cm F5 Nikkor in Short mount. Number 647021, 21st lens of approximately 200 made. This is the earliest number recorded. Picture shows the lens as I received it from Puerto Rico where it had been stored unloved in a garage for many years. Fungus and the iris was sprung. The case had been attacked by termites. Second picture shows lens after I disassembled, cleaned, rebuilt the iris and had a replacement case made. A little too heavy for every day use, but a nice shooter.
TenEleven
Well-known
That's wild. I never knew this existed, let alone seem pictures of it.
My contribution today is perhaps a bit more pedestrian.
Why, "That's just a decent, if not amazing condition Opton Biogon.." you might say. And it certainly looks as if you're right until I do this.
It has a Leica thread mount. It's rangefinder coupled. And most strangely of all - the milled rangefinder cam and the screw mount itself have the the last three serial numbers stamped into them in Zeiss fashion. However I do not believe this to be a Zeiss original.
A very well made effort, yes - but again I doubt it's original. Still, very interesting and rare since unlike for the pre-war and wartime lenses you can't just scavenge parts off a Russian lens to do the conversion.
The Leica mount fits neatly in place where the Contax bayonet used to be and is finished in some alloy (I do not think it's aluminum - it's too heavy for that. I am not a metallurgist...) as well as the surprisingly gently sloped RF cam which bears a stamped registration number (969) which sadly is not visible without disassembly. Focus tracks perfectly on all my M and LTM bodies.
My contribution today is perhaps a bit more pedestrian.
Why, "That's just a decent, if not amazing condition Opton Biogon.." you might say. And it certainly looks as if you're right until I do this.
It has a Leica thread mount. It's rangefinder coupled. And most strangely of all - the milled rangefinder cam and the screw mount itself have the the last three serial numbers stamped into them in Zeiss fashion. However I do not believe this to be a Zeiss original.
A very well made effort, yes - but again I doubt it's original. Still, very interesting and rare since unlike for the pre-war and wartime lenses you can't just scavenge parts off a Russian lens to do the conversion.
The Leica mount fits neatly in place where the Contax bayonet used to be and is finished in some alloy (I do not think it's aluminum - it's too heavy for that. I am not a metallurgist...) as well as the surprisingly gently sloped RF cam which bears a stamped registration number (969) which sadly is not visible without disassembly. Focus tracks perfectly on all my M and LTM bodies.
Mr_Flibble
In Tabulas Argenteas Refero
Mighty interesting TenEleven,
This last week I serviced an unknown Contax-to-LTM adapter that was binding so badly you'd just be unscrewing the lens from the camera instead of focusing. No idea about it's provenance, but I think it's another one of those early post-war 3rd party adapters. No markings on it, except a small scratched in "5" inside the mount.
It's running smooth now after some gentle polishing and focus is spot on when I tested it with a Jupiter-3 on my Leica M-3.
Next up for servicing is the 50/1.5 Sonnar that came with the adapter. ..... Before they go back to their owner.
This last week I serviced an unknown Contax-to-LTM adapter that was binding so badly you'd just be unscrewing the lens from the camera instead of focusing. No idea about it's provenance, but I think it's another one of those early post-war 3rd party adapters. No markings on it, except a small scratched in "5" inside the mount.
It's running smooth now after some gentle polishing and focus is spot on when I tested it with a Jupiter-3 on my Leica M-3.
Next up for servicing is the 50/1.5 Sonnar that came with the adapter. ..... Before they go back to their owner.
TenEleven
Well-known
There are some very well made Contax-to-LTM Japanese adapters out there, I think the head bartender might have some writings on them. (Orion/Kindai International) But I assume you're aware of these and it's not those.