Industar macro with 42 mm thread mount (Zenit) was really cool. Was it 58
or 60 mm? Do not remember anymore.
Others were rubbish.
Helios happened to be good. Jupiter line was genereally OK.
Peeter
----- Original Message -----
From: "karl shah-jenner" <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Russian eBayers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Fraser"
: By the way, I took a test shot using my new lens. If anyone's
interested,
the test shot can be seen here
http://home.golden.net/~fraserg/equipment/industar50.html. As the page
text
indicates, this was a quick test and more of a snapshot than a real
evaluation still I was kind of impressed. I hadn't even cleaned the finger
prints of the lens element before taking the shot.
dude, you bought an industar!
I bought one loocally for around $12 brand new from a shop and test shot
it
against my Canon FD and FL macro 50mm's, it beat both FL's which performed
better than my FD.
I sold all the Canons for some cash and kept the little russian button
instead :-)
Later I found another and bought that too and if anything it's a smidge
better
I know the rep for russian quality control is bad, but they make some
damned fine lenses too - the Industars I've seen have been fantastic :-)
k
