Soviet GOI Summicron Copies- Orkideja and Merkurij 52 -20mm - Where to buy ?

Mustafa Umut Sarac

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• Sep 20, 2014

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These are 1950s Summicron Copies , Glasses reaches to 1.667 or more. St Petersburg made. 20 and 52mm. 20mm is so interesting for me it reeaches 120 lp/mm at the center but fast to drop at the corners.

Where to look for buy online - not so in love with ebay for such a old lens - ?

Is there any user , photographs ?

Umut

 

ciniframe

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• Sep 20, 2014

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What would you use the 20mm f2.5 on? It is a movie camera lens, probably a 'C' mount. That will in no way cover a 35mm frame at infinity even if you could mount it close enough to the film plane.

 

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• Sep 20, 2014

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It says right in that first and last file: Cinematographico so those are out for 35mm use.

Middle looks interesting, maybe a Jupiter-8 evolution that never got made in big numbers?

 

Dan Fromm

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• Sep 20, 2014

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Mustafa, as long as you limit yourself to secondary and tertiary sources you're imagination will be restrained. If you want to dream about lenses from the former Soviet Union, go to http://www.lallement.com/pictures/files.htm and download the 1963 GOI and 1970 and ’71 Yakovlev catalogs. They're in Russian. http://www.photohistory.ru/index.php , also in Russian, has fewer lenses but a few that aren't in the GOI or Yakovlev catalogs. http://www.zenitcamera.com/catalog/lenseslist.html has fewer still but a few that aren't listed elsewhere. And ask on www.mflenses.com.

Most of the lenses designed by GOI are very hard to find outside of the former Soviet Union. Cultivate sources there.

 

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• Sep 20, 2014

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Theres a camera shop in Chernobyl selling them for half price.

 

E. von Hoegh

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• Sep 22, 2014

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Fixcinater said:

It says right in that first and last file: Cinematographico so those are out for 35mm use.

Middle looks interesting, maybe a Jupiter-8 evolution that never got made in big numbers?

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Not likely. The diagram is that of a double Gauss variant; the J-8 was a classic Sonnar - a direct clone of the 50/2 Zeiss lens designed by Ludwig Bertele in 1931. Bertele was also responsible for the fast Ernemann lenses, which were the ancestors of the Sonnars.