A hidden gem from East Germany (Web Pentacon Jena) - not many people know, this lens performs optically very well. Some Pentacon lens has horrible build quality and their optical performance is very mixed (ex. Pentacon 29mm). Fortunatelly this lens is different very capable performer and quality built too. The lens is quite uncommon, but not particularly rare. I am very happy owner of a beautiful copy, if you see any grap it and enjoy.
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ORIGIN AND MAIN FEATURES OF THE CAMERA
Basically inspired on the German 1932 Leica IId with L39 thread, the FED-4 (in spite of
preserving such classic LTM mount so as to be able to use the wide range of already existing lenses and a shutter being a copy of the German original one from the quoted Leica IId together with similar control knobs and dials) also sports some aesthetic aspects (specially the frontal part) linked to the mythical German M Series Rangefinder Leicas, the 1954 Leica M3 above all.
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Rolleiflex 2.8 GX Edition, a great twin lens reflex camera in 6 x 6 cm medium format, following the trail of the legendary Rolleiflex TLRs of a golden period in the history of photography.
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This extraordinary Russian folding 6 x 6 rangefinder medium format camera, fundamentally inspired on the formidable elite camera Agfa Super Isolette, made between 1954 and 1957 (known as Super Speedex in United States), owes its name to the underground newspaper founded by Lenin in 1900, whose letters in Cyrillic characters appear engraved in red colour and in a prominent size on the front of the camera, just on the block constituted by lens and bellows.
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The History of Contax The River Saale still flows through the German industrial town of Jena, home of the Carl Zeiss Foundation. Jena is a town, like the river, that has remained unchanged by the flow of the centuries. It was here, in 1846, that Herr Zeiss began his workshop, making high quality magnifying glasses for the faculty of Jena University. From humble beginnings these Carl Zeiss Works grew into one of the largest and most prestigious optical companies in the world.
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Bit boring to say always high quality lens , superb built quality. A professional product trully. It makes contrasty , very sharp images. I beleive good as than any other top maker fast lens like Carl Zeiss or Nikon. Little long for Micro 4/3 cameras , but I can live with it. Pretty rare , grab it if you find it.
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Not that I've had much popular acclaim for such a page, but I figured that if I'm going to hang on to the camera for more than a month, I ought to haul it out and use it once in a while, eh?
First Impressions
The camera is big, but not awe-inspiring like the big Speed Graphics of yesteryear. In fact, it's about the same size and weight as my F2/MD-2/MB-1 combination. Granted, the Koni won't feed film through at better than 3 fps, but if you worked on your technique, I'm fairly sure that you could get a top end of 1 fps with the Koni. In fact, I find it remarkable that you can get a negative four times the size (area-wise) of a 35mm neg in such a relatively small space. The Koni is also very sturdily built -- at least the equal of the aforementioned F2, from what I can tell. Of course, I haven't used either of them as hammer- substitutes, so your mileage may, of course, vary. Because the Koni does use a combined range/viewfinder, the view is certainly more crowded than what I'm used to -- frame lines (that move to correct for parallax -- neat!) for the 90 and 180, along with dots for the corners of the 135 lenses.
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My favourite focal lenght is 24mm and 85mm due all well known brands have stunning quality lenses in this range. Konica Hexanon 24mm f2.8 is not an exception... Very sharp, render beautiful colors and perfect mach to your m4/3 camera. 2x crop factor sadly make it to normal lens. Lens simple perfect to my eyes. I did try several lens in this focal length, this lens one of the best from all.
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The Voigtländer Bessa 1 is a fairly well made 6x9 folding camera. There is also a somewhat more desirable Bessa 2 that has a built in rangefinder making it an excellent high quality and very portable medium format camera. This particular one came in for a clean up.
First task is deciding whether to work with the lens/shutter assembly in place or remove it.
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Konishiroku Hexanon 35mm f2.8 Konica F mount - One of the first SLR lens made by Konica around 1960 to Konica F mount SLR series like Konica F, Konica FM, Konica FP. First class lens from every aspects , built quality just can't be better. I did expect great image quality due I never dissapointed in any Hexanon lenses. Result was over on my highest expectation just good as than any professional lens what I did ever try, it is perform like Contax Distagon 35mm f1.4 or Nikkor 35mm f1.4.
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I hope you find it informative and helpful. I have recently acquired a Koni Omega M medium format camera (I explain for those unfamiliar to the camera name). I am in the process of getting it working up to snuff. One of the major problems with it when it arrived was the film advance was sticky. With the help of the Koni guru Greg Webber I have successfully cla'd (cleaned, lubed, adjusted) the film advance clutch on two film backs. I felt I might provide a service to those who are also interested and/or capable of repairing their own film backs. So, I have put together several pictures along with a written description of the steps involved. I will include sources of supply and contact info for Greg Weber (for those not mechanically inclined, wiser than myself, or just scared of doing it themselves) at the end of the tutorial. When time permits I will try to improve this page and include additional information about and photos of the Koni Omega M camera.
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