#industar 50

[nyklich]

spring

[alexsbrain]

A windy day on lake Ontario

[thankgodforwater-blog]

[nicoslavia]

[nicoslavia]

[fisherken]

FILM - the Lion bridge at Burghley by Jonathan Burley Via Flickr: One of many photos I've taken of this bridge, it is always set up nicely for photos from this angle in the morning. Fed 2 camera Industar 50 collapsible lens Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film 000086070001_0001

[imagecoffee]

(c)2020 Huimin Chi

(c)2020 Huimin Chi

(c)2020 Huimin Chi

It’s spring time and the village is now becoming colorful with warm sunshine. Almost rainny season begining in April & May.

Contax 137MA + Insustar-50-2 3.5/50 + Kentmere 400

Spring Time, ZNV It's spring time and the village is now becoming colorful with warm sunshine. Almost rainny season begining in April & May. Contax 137MA + Insustar-50-2 3.5/50 + Kentmere 400

[simonhawketts]

I recently bought a Miranda Sensomat 35mm film camera and bundled with it came an industar 50 M42 mount lens. This is a classic Russian made lens from the 1960’s and I was interested to see how it performed, since I’ve used other Industar & Jupiter lenses to good effect on my Sony Nex 6. So while I was out taking some autumn pictures I also took a few pictures with the Industar 50.

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Sailing boat

Sailing lake

Sailing boat

Trees

Landscape

Reflection on puddle

Sailing lake

Sailing lake

Car park

Of all the Industar and other Russian lenses I’ve tried, this one is definitely the bottom of the bunch for picture quality. However, lets just cover the good points.

It’s a small lens which makes the camera easy to (almost) fit in a pocket. In fact it would be simple to fit the camera in your pocket with this lens, but the adapter adds about an inch to the depth which makes it just slightly too big.

The aperture is stepless and covers f/3.5 to f/16 and the focus ring is easy enough to adjust.

Now the bad points – all the above pictures were taken at f/5.6 or f/8.0 which you would expect to be the best aperture to get the most out of the lens. However all the pictures lack definition, contrast and colour. If you look in detail at the images they are all soft even at the center of the frame and fall off even that poor standard by the corners. It’s not a particularly fast lens and so has almost nothing to recommend it over almost any other M42 manual lens like the Pentacon 50mm, the Takumar 55mm or Minolta 50mm which are all available for very small sums of money.

I would recommend, on the evidence of my copy, that if offered an industar 50 it’s probably not worth whatever is being asked for it.

Industar 50 m42 mount 50mm f/3.5 lens on Sony Nex I recently bought a Miranda Sensomat 35mm film camera and bundled with it came an industar 50 M42 mount lens.