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puderse
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10 Location: dallas
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Les
Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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well, if you stretched the definition of adjustable sharpness....
I'mnot sure what it came out of, but 84mm lenses were pretty common in 2 1/4 TLR cameras. they were also used with the PhotoRecord camera that used 35mm film, particularly an f5. A Google of "Amaton" showed several 84mm Amatons with "adjustable focus", which is what I suspect this is, now why it isn't marked for feet I don't know, and the color coding is certainly aftermarket.
It probably covers 2 1/4 square, moderate chance of covering 2x3 and no chance above that. |
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Dan Fromm
Joined: 14 May 2001 Posts: 2146 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:30 am Post subject: |
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I'm with Les. Not the best of ideas, but if you want to find out what it is and the price is low just buy it. And then you'll know.
Not a portrait lens, and not with adjustable sharpness. It has, as the seller said, front element focus. Lenses with front element focus are found, for the most part, on low-end folding cameras. Odds are against it, but if the price is right enough do take a flier on it and report back.
FWIW, Wollensak also used the name Amaton for some f/9 or f/10 process lenses that I understand were dialyte types and not bad. But your bon-bon is not a process lens.
General rule that usually works: if it is cheap it is good but completely unheard of, or it isn't much good. In this instance, the odds favor "isn't much good."
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