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Gero Giambrone

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For a few days now, as the happy owner of a 1990 Zenit Automat in excellent condition (well, its Helios is a patch of meadow mushrooms, but dismantling it and cleaning the lenses is done in a few minutes, while the exposure meter is being calibrated...), I have been asking myself, and I ask those who are much more knowledgeable than me: which Soviet lenses were produced with a Pentax mount?
 

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If you get an M42 to Pentax-K mount you increase your range of options a lot. For example I have a Jupiter-9 85mm f/2 in the M42 mount. I'm not sure if many Soviet lenses at all came in Pentax K.
 
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Thank you so much. I have many Soviet M42 lenses and I knew from reading the manual about the M42 to K-Pentax adapter ring, but I don't know where to find it and, I fear, the possibility of full aperture measurement would be lost.
 
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