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Post by herron on Nov 28, 2006 22:49:25 GMT -5
Finally got a lens for my Voigtlander Bessa-L body...it's Russian made, labeled as "Grand Prix 1958" and is a 37mm f/2.8. Not the 21mm I had hoped would fall out of the sky, but affordable, and clean. Can't wait to get out and take some pictures!   |
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Post by GeneW on Nov 29, 2006 7:32:57 GMT -5
Ron, that FSU lens is really pretty on the Bessa-L. It's one fun camera. Mine is always in my kit bag. I was lucky to get mine with a CV 21/4. Now, let's see those pics!
Gene
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Post by physiognomy on Nov 29, 2006 21:18:48 GMT -5
Nice lens Ron! I can't say I've seen that one before.... Is it a m39 slr lens?
I just looked it up on ebay & saw that it is called a MIR-1 ... It seems they made them in both m39 & m42 for the Zenit's. I'm sure that it won't hard to scale-focus if stopped down a little. I've rarely messed up even at f2.8 with the 40mm sonnar on my Rollei 35SE. The fsu 35mm finder should also work really well unless you can see in 35mm. I have a terrible time trying to frame any focal length without a finder, but luckily they can be found cheaply enough.
Have fun!
Peter
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Post by herron on Nov 29, 2006 21:48:56 GMT -5
'Fraid so, Ron. No viewfinder or rangefinder on this puppy. But it has a really nice feel to it and, as Peter points out, finders (that fit on the flash mount) are not hard (or expensive) to come by.
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Post by herron on Nov 29, 2006 21:49:27 GMT -5
I have quite a few FSU lenses for my Zorki's, FEDs, MIR and other Russian cameras...just no wide angle. I've had very good luck with them. Most of them are quite sharp, and any bad pictures are due to the photographer (me).  |
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Post by herron on Nov 29, 2006 21:54:40 GMT -5
Thanks, Peter. It's the leica-threaded M39 mount. Now that I've found this one, I've suddenly seen several on evilBay. Most seem to be coming from overseas, but I got this one from a seller in Canada. It's an impressive looking lens and, if you can tell anything by it, feels very nice. Smooth focusing, sharp click stops, and the glass is immaculate. Aperture seems quite snappy, too.
I'm looking forward to using it!
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Post by herron on Nov 30, 2006 11:50:10 GMT -5
Brian -- it definitely is NOT a J-12! Not sure, however, what RF coupling would have to do with it? Rangefinder Coupling, as far as I understand it, is simply that the lens focusing ring/scale is physically connected to the optical rangefinder in the camera. There is no rangefinder on the Bessa L. The Cosina-Voightländer lenses that were actually made for the Bessa L are not RF coupled. The focus is achieved by looking at the scale on the lens only. The depth of field of the wide-angle lens is often sufficient to deal with error, which is why the Bessa-L is often used with 15mm or 21mm lenses. Back-focusing is another issue, and can be a bigger problem on shorter lenses, most notable at infinity. While wider angle lenses have greater DOF, they also require a much smaller amount of lens movement to focus. But it ultimately depends on whether or not the back-focus error is within an acceptable DOF range or outside of it, and this will depend on the lens, the actual back-focus error and the individual photographer's threshold for focus-error. For what I plan on doing with it, I don't think it's going to be a problem...but this 37mm is a bit longer than I would have liked, and I will reserve judgement on how well it actually works until I get a couple of my 12-shot test rolls developed! |
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Post by PeterW on Nov 30, 2006 17:51:14 GMT -5
Brian wrote:
The Industar and Jupiter 39mm lenses make lovely close-up lenses on a Zenit S or 3M. Won't focus to infinity of course.
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Post by bobm on Dec 1, 2006 12:27:17 GMT -5
Ron: Let us know how you get on with the Mir-1 as I've found one in M42 mount and it would be good to know how it performs.
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Post by physiognomy on Dec 1, 2006 15:37:36 GMT -5
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