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

[xkaes]

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.

 

[Kino]

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

 

[btaylor]

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.

 

[xkaes]

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

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.