Re: [Leica] Industar (Ukranian) lenses.

[Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>]

Having imported and shot with all the lenses I would say that results at
leas equal the Summitar and better the Summarit, Elmar (sorry), Hektor and
Summar. There are some dogs in the pack but all in all I am delighted with
the price AND performance (if anyone wants to play with them let me know I
have almost every variant)

FYI the best of the lot IMHO is the 35mm f2.8 Jupiter BIOGON copy with odd
rear element.

Mark
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> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> 
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us 
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Industar (Ukranian) lenses.
> Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 23:33:39 -0400 
> 
>At 03:06 AM 5/17/98 +0000, Richard Urmonas wrote:
>>What about the Industar lenses.  These appear to be used on a fair number
>of the Leica copies from
>>that part of the world.  Anyone have experiance with these?
>
>
>I find the Industar lenses for the FED quite confusing, which amuses the
>great expert on these guys, Oscar Fricke, most mightily, as HE thinks they
>are a simple and straightforward series.
>
>Most of the Industar lenses are Russian and emenate from the great KMZ
>works outside of Moscow, home to most of the production machinery looted
>from the Carl Zeiss works at Jena after the War (some went to the LOMO
>works in St Petersburg, while all of the camera production machinery went
>to the Arsenal works in Kiev.)  A few of the Industar lenses were or are
>made at the FED plant at Karkhov (named, as noted by another esteemed
>LUG'er, for the founder of the NKVD) in the Ukraine.
>
>The Industar-22 was a 3.5/50 lens produced from 1948 to 1953;  it was
>replaced by the Industar-50 in 1953, and this remained in production until
>1971.  Both were produced in rigid and collapsible versions.  The 2.8/50
>Industar-50 was tweaked a bit at the FED works to produce the Industar-26,
>made from 1955 until 1963;  the use of Lanthanum glass changed this to the
>Industar-61L, produced from 1961 to the present.  
>
>All are Tessar clones similar in performance to the Elmar.  These are
>rather pleasant lenses and, no, there is supposed to be no radioactivity
>from the I-61L!
>
>Marc
>
>
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