Imperial, Ina, Ina Vinson, Infotar, Isco, Itoh, Itorex, Jupiter, Juplen, Kalimar, Kashimura, Kawanon, Kazan, Kilfitt, Kine Camera Cy, Kinoptik, KMZ, Kowa, Kyoei, Leitz, Lentar, Liatz, Listar, Ludwig, LZOS Lutkarino, Mamiya-Sekor, Marexar, Marumi, Masel, Meopta, Mepro, Meyer, Miida, Mosler, Nikon, NKK, Novoflex, Olympus, Optinar, Optomax, Orion, Palinar, Pallas, panagor, Paragon, Peerotar, Pentacon, Pentax, Pentor, Petri-Taron, Photax, Piesker, Plaubel, Plusflex, Ponder & Best, Primax, Prinz, Prisma, PRO, Quarry, Questar, Raynox, Renoit Etoile, Revue, Ritagon, Ritz, Rodenstock, Roeschlein, Rolmax, Ross, Rubica, Rudersdorf, Samigon, Samyang, Sands Hunter, Sankor, Sankyo, Sans & Streiffe, Schacht, Schachtlike, Schneider, Scopus, Sears, Seimar, Sesnon, Seton Rochwite, Siatex, Sigma, Silber, Soligor, Soligor Miranda, SOM Berthiot, Sonnagar, Spiratone, Steinheil, Sterling-Howard, Sun, Sunset, Suntar, Swift, Taika, Taiyo & Co, Tamron, Taylor, Taylor & Hobson, Telec, Telesar, Telisar, Tewe, Tiger, Titan, Tokina, Tokyo Koki, Topcon, Typonar, UGL, Unitor, Universar, Upsilon, Vemar, Vivitar, Voigtländer, Vorn, Voss Photo, Walter Voss, Welt, Weth, Will Wetzlar, Wirgin, Wollensak, WVF Präzisa, Yashica, Zeika, Zeiss, Zoomar List of lens manufacturers making lenses for EXA/EXAKTA bayonet :Īccess, Accura, Aetna Optix, Aico, Amitar, Angenieux, Aragon, Arco, Argus, Asanuma, Ashreh, Astro Berlin, Atzmuller&Rendl, Avigon, Bass Cam Co, Bausch & Lomb, Bell & Howell, Berlin Optik, Beroflex, Berolina, Birns & Sawyer, Bittco, Boyer, Brandex, Busch, Bushnell, Cambridge Cam, Cambron, Canon, Carl Meyer, Caspeco, Cavalier, Celestron, Century, Chalier, Chinon,Coleman-Dynamic, Cooke, Corfield, Dallmeyer, Danubia, Dollond, Kodak, Edixa, Elgeet, Elicar, Elite, Emil Busch, Encino, Enna, Ernemann, Ernst Abbe Jena, Esplana, Euro-Optik, Exakta, Eyemik, Feinmess, Focal, Fodor, Fokinar, Friedrich, Fujita, Gamma, Gen Scient Corp, Glanz, Goerz, GOMZ, Hakuhor, Hanimar, Hanimex, Harmon, Holm & Jamer, Honeywell, Ica, Ihagee, Ihagee Steinheil, The Zeiss Jena lenses are often good, though like everything Comecon/FSU quality and performance of an individual sample is a bit of a crap-shoot - but what the hey, it was a "worker's paradise." The 'Zebra Stripe' Zeiss Tessar is common and cheap. A manual diaphragm, common on very early German lenses, is a PITA on an SLR. Preset apertures are the norm on 'T-Mount' lenses - these are the common Japanese 3rd party lenses from Lentar, Cambron, Spiratone etc., they date from the days when 'Made in Japan' meant 'look out: it may be good, or it may be crap'. This lets you focus wide open and then close down to the shooting aperture without having to lower the camera. A preset aperture has two rings: the first has click stops and you use it to set the aperture you want to use the other turns smoothly between wide open and the setting on the first ring. The ones without the button can be either pre-set or manual diaphragm. When you push the button the first part of the stroke closes the aperture and the remaining part of the stroke goes on to push the camera's shutter release button. If you want an automatic diaphragm lens it has to have that rather bizarre button assembly growing out of the side of the lens. Exakta was the only company that made cameras with the auto-aperture 'Exakta' mount. You are safe mounting a manual or preset Exakta mount lens on a Topcon. Topcon used a similar lens mount - Topcon lenses will mount on an Exakta but the automatic aperture mechanism is very different. So, I guess my question is "can I just buy any lens with an Exakta mount and put it on the camera?" Will that work? (Does that little arm poking out do anything else I'm not aware of? Or does it just push the shutter release?) I do note that a number of the lenses don't have the cute button that presses the shutter release, but I don't see how this can hurt anything. But is this the only considerations? Is there anything that I'm overlooking that makes some Exakta mount lenses like the Japanese models not a reasonable choice for an Exa body? And since it's got a focus screen rather than a rangefinder, I'm guessing that the lens registration is not an issue. I can pretty well guess that all of them will mechanically "mount" to the body. I see that there were scads of lenses made in the Exakta mount, many for cameras other than the East German ones. So what if it wasn't the super whiz-bang testosterone pumping professional model of its day the photographer is behind the camera, not in the camera.īut the lens situation confuses me a bit. Hey gang, I just bought a box of old cameras - mostly to get the metal 127 spools from some of them - and inside that box was an old Exa 135 SLR.Ī little tinkering and I made the shutter fire properly every time, so I'm curious whether I can put this little guy back to work.
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