Amazing Lens Found In Bag Of Junk! 

Okay, I’ve always scratched my head about the obsession around the kislux book totes and their practicality, but this one is adorable!! Congratulations

The Mamiya lens is a CS lens that was made for Mamiya NC 35 cameras, Mamiya NC1000 and Mamiya NC1000s. After the NC, Mamiya introduced another mount for its XE system called E and EF. I think there is an adapter for ZE lenses to Sony E, but none for NC, which you have received. I have both NC1000 and NC1000s and a collection of lenses. Those lenses are of very high quality, but unfortunately not possible to use on today's digital cameras.

Fantastic report. Love your channel ❤

The cs mamiya 135mm is gorgeous... 5 years ago I got a nice one and removed the rear mount and aperture ring .. stopped the aperture to approx f2.8 and drilled and mounted a nikon f mount ring onto the body to achieve the correct Nikon flange focal distance.... it has been one of my fav fixed aperture portrait lenses on my d7100 and the full frame d700 ever since!!

For a moment there, I was thinking I have a copy of your Minolta “dream lens”; but mine’s a MC Tele Rokkor PF 135mm f/2.8, not the MD.

Good evening Nigel, A very interesting review. In my humble opinion, the Meyer Optik 135mm lens you have purchased, is the best of the bunch. If you unscrew the ring behind the aperture control, you will be able to substitute the existing M42 mount for the Exakta version. The 200mm lens offered the same facility, one lens would serve two camera systems. Carl Zeiss Jena offered the same facility on some of their optics, my 180 and 300mm Sonnars can be used with Pentacon 6, M42, and Exakta cameras, using the appropriate adaptors.

I believe this is a lens bespoke to Mamiya NC 1000 and NC 1000S film SLR cameras. Looks in great condition :)

The mamiya lens was also made in a Rollei QBM 4 mount as the Rolleinar / vOigtlander dynax. It a very good performer and can be as sharp as Zeiss (oberkochen) glass. There is a file to print an adapter to i think fuji on tinkercad.

Hi Nigel The mamyia cs sytem from 1977, you should be able to get an adaptor. It was a 35mm film SLR. Hope this helps

The Mamiya lens was used on the 35mm Mamiya ZE cameras

I own the earlier Pentacon 135mm f2.8 all-metal black version with the scalloped focus ring and pre-set aperture control at the front. MFD is 1.5 metres. Even after all these years I still can't believe how smoothly it operates. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I actually purchased the Minolta 135mm MD Rokkor 2.8 for £33 delivered from Gibson Cameras which I thought was a bit of a bargain….turns out it’s pristine….now sitting proudly on my A6000.

There are expensive adaptors available for the Mamiya CS, I've had success with making my own adaptors for unusual mounts by chopping up an extension tube.

Another great video, the mamiya is for an 35 mm slr , it would be interesting, if it could be adapted, mamiya glass had a great reputation back in the day

Yes, it is a Mamiya CS lens for the NC1000s camera. I have one of these. Excellent optic.

found a canon fd 17mm f4 in good condition and some other stuff in a bag on a fleamarket, bought the bag for 10€

A cloudy covering! Understatement of the year! Its covered in greasy fingerprints! 😱

Love the videos!

I have the zebra Meyer and It's great. And I have a minolta mc tele rokkor 135 2,8 from my first camera, also a great lens.

I'm just taking a recently acquired CZJ 135mm f/3.5 Sonnar through its paces. I have a fondness for the Sonnar formula and it seems to work nicely at 135mm. I'm shooting it on a Sony A7Sii body and the stabilization works. I'll know more in a couple of weeks. But so far I am liking the rendering of this lens. I'll put myself on the lookout for the Pentacon/Orestor. Thanks for pointing it out.

Nice video, and congratulations to your find! I've got a Pentacon 135mm f/2.8 (15 blades, zebra version) and a Pentacon Auto MC 135mm f/2.8 (6 blades). The 15 bladed zebra is quite long and heavy (506 g), but it's a fun lens, and the 6-bladed is shorter and a bit lighter (470 g). Cheers!

I gave away my Meyer 135mm. lens many years ago much to my regret. It was the preset one and I had adaptors for M42 and Exakta for it. Your Mamiya lens is from the time the company decided like others e.g. Pentax, Olympus and even Practica to manufacture bayonet mount cameras rather than M42 in the belief that people wanted to change lenses more quickly. Other than that they also began to make smaller bodied SLRs. There was not so much gain in technical terms. You may be able to pick up one of those later Mamiya bodies but they rarely turn up. I still have the older M42 Mamiya which also had the benefit of spot metering . Hope you find a bayonet one but I doubt anyone makes an adaptor to use it on digital. In my humble opinion I thought the move by the aforementioned manufacturers was a misjudgement in an attempt to stop the poorer enthusiasts buying a betterM42 camera body and putting cheaper East German and Soviet lenses on it. Who knows ?

Mamiya once made 35mm cameras in the 60s and early 70s.

Great video. As I was watching, I impulse bought my own copy of the Minolta 135.

Sad to see it has balsam separation. The CS lenses are not usually very prone to it.

Unique and interesting channel.

It would be satisfying to try out that Vivitar point and shoot camera. Hopefully no battery leakage in the battery compartment.

Mamiya 35 slrs were top quality.

Hi Nigel what a collection of good 135mm f 2.8 !!! I do hope you will be able to repair your minolta which is a good lens. For the Mamiya which is quite rare I am not sure you will be able to find an adaptor for this lens, perhaps a 3D print will be a solution(even if I don’t like… this) or buy a « for piece » Mamiya NC1000 to get the bayonet and do some DIY. On my side I love this focal and my favorites are ypthe canon FD 135mm f2.5 , the rather unknown Miranda f2.8, the best of the best ( but rather high priced) Nikon AF 135 f2 DC. Have a nice day.

The CS lens is for a 35mm camera. They dropped their 35mm's when they had financial problems and stuck to their amazing 120 cameras. They made lovely 35mm cameras. Can you get an M42 mount for it and use an M42>Sony?

The Mamiya lens looks a lot like a Mamiya 645 lens, but it's difficult to judge scale from the video. The 645 bayonet is about 62mm diameter. I have an M645 to Nikon F-mount adapter to which I can add another adapter to use on mirrorless.

12:53 I love how it's the spitting image of its large brother, the Pentacon 300/4!

I have the MOG Primotar which is the F/3,5 135mm. Also has 15 blades and fun wide open but also pretty damn sharp at F/8. Exacta mount so I use it on my film cameras and EM1 MkII.

I have the auto tele rokkor-pf 135mm 2.8. I am happy with the quality of this lens. Hopefully you can fix your dream lens.

Thanks!

5:25- Actually it's a 35mm f3.8

According to the Camera Wiki site VEB dropped the Meyer name in 1971, after which they were branded Pentaconar, Pentacon or Prakticar.

That Vivitar PS35 is better than you think. I used to sell those...the lens is excellent.

Dear Nigel, I was wondering why you called your channel Zenography? Best wishes, Mike

I was hoping to see the pancolar 50mm f1.4 :)

Nigel why not look for a basket case Minolta 135mm lens to hawk for parts? Good vlog.

l had the same mamiya lens, impossible to find a adapter (and l tried) but l went on shapeways and 3d printed one.

I used to have a Mamiya 645, the original model before they decided to cover them with nasty black plastic. If your lens is the same quality then you've got an outstanding bit of kit.

I have a version of the lens that is made in Japan - how does it fit in with the German copies?

Mamiya CS (NC 1000, NC 1000s SLRs) doesn't even fit other Mamiya (35mm) bayonet systems. They went through 2 or 3 bayonets after abandoning M42, but gave up 35mm, after the marketing disaster of the X system.

I've been hearing some people are removing the glue from doublers witnin a lens group by cooking and later re-apply canadian glue. If you have the resources, will and time give it a go. Few years back i got the Pentacon electric 135mm f2.8 for next to nothing, course it was fogged quite a bit. Razor sharp, but fogged. One of these days I hope I'll be not too lazy and actually clean it 😇

Hoping you can fix the Minolta 135.

This is the clickbait we love! :) ps: do you know what could cause haze in the inner side of lenses? Is that fungus or something else? Was betting on a pentax M 100mm f4 macro but was hazy, and i don't know if it was a bargain or a piece if junk