Info on this lens?

[olroy2044]

Take a look at this EBay item

221146894209

Does anyone know anything about this lens? The reason I'm asking is that I have one of them that seems to be in good shape other than the front (focusing) group is somewhat loose. Wondering if I should get it serviced? It seems to perform pretty good when the front group is where it belongs.

BTW: I paid $5 for it at a charity shop. Can't imagine it being worth the price being asked! Here's mine





Roy

[Berndt]

Wondering if I should get it serviced?

I never used this lens in particular, but Soligor has been a pretty common lens maker in Japan, producing lenses with different mounts ( this seems to be a M42 ? ).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soligor

They also made a lot of different telephoto lenses. I own a Soligor 400 mm and I am very happy with it.

[lloydy]

Soligor never made any lenses, they were an import and marketing company, so much of their product line came from various manufacturers. The 'CD' range was their top quality, competition to Vivitars 'Series 1', and generally very good.. I have the longer zoom 70-210 in that series and it's a very decent performer, the other CD's I have are primes and also up to the same standard. I like Soligors and have 11 of them at the moment.
According to the best knowledge on the serial numbers the maker of that zoom lens is almost certainly Kino / Kiron who were a good third manufacturer and sold a few good lenses under their own names.
For a few bucks, I'd buy it and try it, as long as it's working and not decentered or anything drastic it should be good.