Author Topic: Industar-22 50mm f/3.5 ***** (Read 4337 times)

mikewinter · « **on:** March 21, 2010, 03:35:31 PM »

One of the postwar soviet M39 Leica copies. It has a nice steampunk look to it! Sharp at f/3.5, but has serious problems with flare, so it is a nice conversation piece at best. Sorry for the crappy pictures of the camera, the iphone sucks.

The lens is more or less sharp at f/3.5 at infinity.

Lens with e-pl1

Two photos at f/3.5. Not going for quality here...

gareth · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2010, 08:52:12 PM »

The lens is called Industar-22 50mm f/3.5. It's of Leica Thread Mount (LTM). I acquired it several weeks ago.

It came with a nice hard plastic shell and matching lens cap.

The lens can be collapsed.

It's an inexpensive old-school-look lens I can have to use on m4/3 PEN.

I have not taken many photos with the lens yet. However, I did not find troublesome flares in indoor shots. The following is one of them.

f/4 - 1/50 sec - ISO 1250

As the front elements of the lens are very forefront and the lens seems uncoated, I do expect len flares in strong daylight. The seller of the lens gave me a matching (and interesting) lens hood. I'll post some photos later on (don't know when though.

) to let you have an idea how the hood looks like and how the lens performs in daylight.

P.S. @Mike
What iPhone model did you use. iPhone 3G/3Gs have short focusing distance and its focusing mechanism is quite nice. Perhaps you can get some steady support for the shot.

cosinaphile · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2010, 08:52:32 PM »

love the cold war historical stuff, i cant get enuf of it

cheers

mikewinter · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2010, 09:55:41 AM »

gareth,

Looks like we have different lenses. Mine is missing the "Industar-22" marking. It just has the 1:3,5, "FED" Cyrillic logo, and F=50mm and the aperture markings around the front ring. I've been actually trying to figure out what the lens is based on the info on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FED_%28camera%29#FED_1_serial_numbers_and_production_numbers

So far as I can tell it was made after 1949. I believe mine is a copy of the Leitz Elmar and yours is a copy of the Tessar.

I have an iphone 3g. I've never had luck with the close focus. I should pull out the SLR for the lens shots. Sorry for the blurrycam.

Cheers,
--Mike

gareth · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2010, 08:20:56 PM »

Thanks Mike.

I did a search to find more information. Don't know if your lenses should be "FED-50" referred in this article.

http://jay.fedka.com/index_files/Page444.htm

Interesting bit of history.

je245 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2010, 09:49:51 PM »

Nice to see collapsible FSU 50mm LTMs here!

falsedigital · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2010, 12:04:30 AM »

I'm wondering....can the lenses actually be collapsed when mounted to the E-P1/P2..etc?
Because I figure the sensor is probably too close to actually push it back. Is it?

adash · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2010, 12:34:31 AM »

The sensor is at the same distance at which film is in the original RF camera. Otherwise it would not have either infinity of close focus. A problem may however arise when touching the electrical contacts on the m4/3 lens mount, or any other in-camera objects around the sensor. You should anyway proceed with caution.

Industar-22 50mm f/3.5 *****