Dogman
Veteran
Well, FedEx is to be commended. Lens delivered this morning. I sat down and opened the package, put the lens on an adapter and put it on my Z5. Christie had been watching the FedEx truck leave so I snapped a quick two frames at ƒ/2.8 with the new lens.
For my purposes, this'll do fine.
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KoNickon
Nick Merritt
No, that's the 50. The focus ring on the other two lenses are wider, with three and four rows respectively.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
I think it is the 50. The 35mm has the infinity sign after 5m. The 50 has infinity after 10m
Leon C
Well-known
You had me drooling for a sec but I did go have a quick look on Roland's site but both the 35 & 28 have 3+ ridge focus rings!
Not sure if it's a reflection thing but you can't see the recessed front as on my current 50/2 so it'll be interesting when it lands.
Dogman
Veteran
You're right guys, I'm sure. The filter made the lens look a bit longer than the 50mm to me. Sorry for getting your hopes up.
WoodallP
Pragmatist Barnack lover
I suppose that’s down to the optical bit. I have never really checked if the 50mm and 6x9 were the same but logically the 50 should be a bit tighter as the typical 105mm on 6x9 equates to about a 43mm on 50mm.
davidswiss
Established
Carry around case for Contax IIa, made by luigi cases, mostly for Leicas I think.
santino
FSU gear head
Beautiful combination of colors
yossi
Well-known
Just received 10 rolls of Kodak Plus-X 2402 in 120 format, from The Middle Kingdom🤗. Hopefully it is still good. At $4.50/roll, I certainly can take a chance.
Talus
pan sin sal
Nice price! Curious to know how it works out.
yossi
Well-known
I loaded a roll of Plus-X into a A16 magazine to shoot 645 with the Hasselblad 500C/M. Below are two random shots scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000:
Shot with my favorite Planar 80mm lens.
Shot with a Distagon 60mm lens.
I must say I am very pleased with the quality of this expired Plus-X film. It's exceeded my expectation.
Shot with my favorite Planar 80mm lens.
Shot with a Distagon 60mm lens.
I must say I am very pleased with the quality of this expired Plus-X film. It's exceeded my expectation.
valdas
Veteran
OM1 - a black one, finally…
Malcolm M
Well-known
Canon Powershot S5. Now, I don’t understand digital cameras. They seem to be covered by supernumerary knobs, dials and buttons covered in incomprehensible hieroglyphs, which, as far as I can make out do different things depending on whether there’s an R in the month, or what you had for breakfast. Each button leads to menus, sub-menus and sub-sub-menus allowing you to change parameters I never knew existed. And if you do find something potentially useful, you can never retrace your steps to find it again.
On the basis of the above, I’ve given it to a couple of seven year olds, who might make more sense of it than I can.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
I didn’t think I’d be buying any more anything photographic but a lens popped up on eBay that I’ve been hoping to find someday. A 120mm f/4.5 Rodenstock Imagon lens in a Hasselblad 1600f/1000f mount with two ‘strainer’ discs. I have another Imagon that I had modified to fit my 907x but it wouldn’t work on my 1000fs. It’s coming from Thailand so I likely won’t see it for a month anyways. Huh guess I have to get to selling off more stuff to compensate for this purchase!
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
I put this in another thread about camera repair as I have a Contax II with Oleg. In a fit of stupid I started thinking the CZJ 5cm f/2.0 really would like a 1.5 stablemate and poked around eBay and found this lens, with a Contax III attached which works. For US$200. Talk about a deal. It is in the mail tomorrow. And the old '37 CZJ 1.5 is factory coated. I am so lucky. Here it is:
Zeiss Ikon CONTAX III with SONNAR 5cm f/1.5 Lens | Shutter Works/Meter Dead | eBay
The rangefinder spot is clearly visible. Accuracy is unknown. Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar f=5cm 1:1.5. The viewfinder is dim and cloudy. Shutter curtain looks great. Shutter works at all speeds with no drama.
www.ebay.com
Yokosuka Mike
Abstract Clarity
I went out with my Voigtländer 35mm f1.4 Nokton Classic VM lens on my Sony A7III a couple days ago and I have to say, it's magic! It's a lens that never disappoints me.
Even though I have quite a few M-mount lenses, and I enjoy using all of them... the 35mm f1.4 Classic is the only one I really need.
All the best,
MIke
Leon C
Well-known
I'm a glutton for punishment, it could turn out a little gem.....Or not! 
Stuck open aperture and some lovely fungus on the front, it's not been opened before looking at the screws, whilst not rare, good Nikon ones in the UK are not £17!
Stuck open aperture and some lovely fungus on the front, it's not been opened before looking at the screws, whilst not rare, good Nikon ones in the UK are not £17!
oldhaven
Well-known
Continuing my latest interest in Japanese rangefinders, over the past few months I have put together this collection of bits for an Aires Viscount. The camera works great and I was told it was serviced by Gass a few years ago. It came with the Kenji half case. The Viscount is designed to also use a 90mm tele lens so I looked for and found one. Best find was an Aires light meter and amplifier. I found these separately, sold as inoperative, with incident light attachments, and happily in the meter box were instructions. I was surprised to find that the meter and amplifier work fine, and are accurate against my cold shoe light meter. I have a roll of film in at the lab now, but don’t expect any problems. I haven’t tried the tele yet. The EV coupled shutter takes some getting used to, but working with an Iskra makes good training, and it gets intuitive after a while.
Here are the meter and amplifier mounted. A cell phone app it’s not
Here are the meter and amplifier mounted. A cell phone app it’s not
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shawn
Veteran
The Kontur arrived. I didn’t jinx myself! It is most definitely 35mm fov and matches up very well with the viewfinder app.
Interestingly, the framelines are orange on this Kontur, not white. Eye position is pretty critical or the effect fails at bit on the sides.
Bbsteinle
Established
The prognosis came back on the Vitomatic: Unrepairable. Another crapshoot lost on shopgoodwill….but it was so beautiful….