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sean perry
seany65
United Kingdom
313 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 1:27:25 PM
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I was just wondering if anyone knows of a simple way to tell between I-50's that were made for rangefinders and those made for slrs?
Apart from the mounting them on a camera, as I want to be able to tell them apart while looking on ebay, as the seller may be mistaken.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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SteveA
United Kingdom
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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
USA
4247 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 2:02:57 PM
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| Yup, the SLR is the "pancake" lens, as the mirror housing provides the extra distance needed from the film plane. |
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Alex_Rus
Russia
35 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 2:11:04 PM
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I-50 for rangefinders has minimal distance (on scale) 1m
SLRs - 0.65m |
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sean perry
seany65
United Kingdom
313 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 3:20:47 PM
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Thanks for the quick replies and the info everyone. 
You've made it easy for me now.
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sean perry
seany65
United Kingdom
313 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2016 : 3:33:07 PM
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I've just found a black Industar 50 lens, serial No. 6951307, labelled as M39, on ebay and I was wondering if the M42 versions were all labelled Industar 50-2, or was that a second version of the lens?
Any help would be much appreciated. |
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Milo Schekkerman
Valkir1987
Netherlands
195 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2016 : 03:05:08 AM
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I was wondering if the M42 versions were all labelled Industar 50-2, or was that a second version of the lens?
It's just the second version. In fact there are three different types in M42. On the earliest one you can use both screw in filters and push on 36mm filters. |
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sean perry
seany65
United Kingdom
313 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2016 : 5:32:03 PM
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Thanks for the infoMilo.
They don't like to make it easy for us, do they? So is there any chance that the black one I mentioned earlier is a zm39 version?
Could you please tell me What the differences are between the 3 m42 types
@Alex_Rus, it looks like the slr lens in the pic that SteveA posted a link to, has a minimum marked distance of 1 metre, so were some not marked 'correctly'? |
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Zoom
596 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2016 : 4:40:07 PM
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Originally posted by seany65
I've just found a black Industar 50 lens, serial No. 6951307, labelled as M39, on ebay and I was wondering if the M42 versions were all labelled Industar 50-2, or was that a second version of the lens?
"2" is M42x1
See also http://www.zenitcamera.com/qa/qa-indexes.html#two (in Russian only, sorry) |
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sean perry
seany65
United Kingdom
313 Posts |
Posted - Oct 28 2016 : 12:46:59 PM
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Hello zoom, thanks for the link, although as a typical 'Brit' I'm useless at foreign languages. I do remember watching a couple of episodes of "Russian language and people" on BBC tv decades ago. I can say 'yes', 'no', 'hello', 'thank you' and I could have a go at saying 'goodbye, summer', which was the title of a sort of 'mini-soap' programme that they had in the series, to show how Russian was used in 'real life'. There were two women in it that made think 'Well, hello!'
Anyway, I understand that the '2' version is only m42, but the black lens I found doesn't have '2' written on it, and so I was wondering if it could be a zenit m39 version. |
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Alfa2
Poland
349 Posts |
Posted - Oct 29 2016 : 02:45:09 AM
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I can describe my understanding of this "-2".
This text under the link tells the notation with 2 at the end was implemented to distinguish between M42 and M39 lenses. But it is not written when this implementation was done. Seems it was done after I-50 appiered on market.
Saying other words. If a lens has "-2" at the end you can be sure this is M42. When there is no "-2" at the end - you never know by name only. |
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sean perry
seany65
United Kingdom
313 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2016 : 06:11:19 AM
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| Thanks alfa2. |
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Zoom
596 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2016 : 4:02:34 PM
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Originally posted by Alfa2
But it is not written when this implementation was done.
Indeed, unfortunately this moment is unknown. |
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Pierre Tizien
Moxies
France
183 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Nov 01 2016 : 3:26:30 PM
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Some "SLR" version of I-50 sometime have minimal focus distance 1m because it was originaly LTM version.
LTM are just SLR version with "macro" ring. If you remove it, your LTM will be a SLR.
Check here : http://t.hacquard.free.fr/site1/l_industar_50.html
I think M42 I-50 are quite rare, only the last ones. But black I-50 are not rare, there are also zebra version (black body and silver aperture ring), for export (but not only). |
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sean perry
seany65
United Kingdom
313 Posts |
Posted - Nov 02 2016 : 7:16:37 PM
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| Thanks foe the replies, zoom and moxies. Even though I don't read or speak French, I could make a fair guess at what the writing meant. |
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Industar 50 for rangefinder and slr
