Earl Dunbar
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Last weekend I picked up a 135/4.5 Aetna Actinar lens in barrel mount. The only web references I've seen refer to it as an enlarging lens, but this one has a bayonet mount. It appears the bayonet mount fitting is added on to the lens, as the rear lens element is quite recessed. The rear (bayonet) section is the same style/manufacturing as the rest of the lens, so this isn't a 3rd party hack.
Not having an M mount body or fitting to testing, is it possible this lens was made for fitting onto a Visoflex? There's no focusing helicoid in the lens, so it couldn't really be used as a 135 taking lens on an M body.
Has anyone seen this configuration?
Oh... why did I buy it? BECAUSE IT WAS THERE!
Not having an M mount body or fitting to testing, is it possible this lens was made for fitting onto a Visoflex? There's no focusing helicoid in the lens, so it couldn't really be used as a 135 taking lens on an M body.
Has anyone seen this configuration?
Oh... why did I buy it? BECAUSE IT WAS THERE!