Anyone ever hear of Kinor 35mm, NON-motion picture, lenses?

Recently, just by chance, I ran across several lenses labeled "Kinor". Since I have a Kinon 35mm camera, my first thought was it was made for that camera -- and it will fit because it has the same lenses mount, a Minolta Rokkor MC/MD mount. That tells me that this lens was not made by the old Kinor movie lens maker. I can't find anything on this FORUM, and very little on the WEB, except that there must have been many sold under the Kinor labels. I've seen 24mm, 28mm, 135mm, 70-150mm, and 80-200mm -- all with the same, unusual, rubber controls. Below are the 24mm and 80-200mm zoom. The lenses were made in different lens mounts such as Minolta, Pentax & Canon -- all manual focus.

My Kinon 35mm SLR was made by Seagull, so I'm thinking that these lenses might have been made by Seagull as well.

Any speculation is welcome.

I don't know who made them but they were made in Japan. Perhaps Kiron?

Interesting, they seem to have nothing to do with the Kinor series of FSU motion picture cameras other than the name. My recollection is a little sketchy (it’s been a minute) but the great majority of lenses made for the Kinor cameras were LOMO and a few Ekran.
They certainly look like the typical Japanese 3rd party lenses.

Kino said:

I don't know who made them but they were made in Japan. Perhaps Kiron?

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Kiron used its own brand name -- Kiron -- but it was part of Kino Precision Industries, Ltd., Perhaps that's where "Kinor" comes from. There are a lot of inexpensive cameras with the "Kinon" name -- perhaps made by another company. But these Kinor lenses might have been made by Kiron. Much to my surprise LENS-DB.COM has nothing on them -- neither does M42LENS.COM -- so they are pretty unusual -- whatever they are.