Componon-s 50mm old model?

[ultramar]

I recently got myself a Componon-s 50mm 2.8 after an ad I found on a photo magazine.
When it finally arrived I was quite surprised to find-out that it was not the well known "standard" lens with the lighted window to read the aperture value in the dark and the little "finger" to go full-aperture without moving the ring.
Still..no doubt it is a Componon-s 50 2.8...than I assume is an older model which I didn't know existed.
My question is simple: is it as good, in terms of lens quality, as the newer, more practical, model? And: any idea about how old it might be?
Thank for answers and suggestions. Ultramar

 

[Ryuji]

I don't know the version you described, but I use old Componon (non-S) for 50mm, 80mm, 105mm, 135mm and 210mm, and they are all excellent from wide open. (Of course I usually use them at 1 stop down, and very occasionally 2 stops down.)

 

[Emilro]

I have got the same question, does anyone now something about this versión in contrast with the green ring on it?

 

[AgX]

There have been indeed 2 versions of the Componon S:

1984
illuminated aperture scale
click stops, switchable off
lever to switch between preset aperture and full-open

1979
click stops, switchable off
(here it was said that there is a lever to switch off the click stops, but I rather call it a slide button)



The optics of the 50 and 80mm versions are different between the two versions.

 

[Lachlan Young]

There have been indeed 2 versions of the Componon S:

1984
illuminated aperture scale
click stops, switchable off
lever to switch between preset aperture and full-open

1979
click stops, switchable off
(here it was said that there is a lever to switch off the click stops, but I rather call it a slide button)



The optics of the 50 and 80mm versions are different between the two versions.

There's at least a 3rd variant of the 50 Componon S when the illuminated aperture scale model went from 5 elements to 6 (around 1990-ish) and at some point gained a narrow green band around the body of the lens.

 

[AgX]

Yes, you are right. Mechanically however it should be the same as the 1984 version.

 

[Emilro]

Are all optical the same? (exept for the five elements versión?)

 

[Hilo]

four versions

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