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Re: Exakta 66 - seventeen years old?
steven.sawyer@banet.net wrote:
> I know the Exakta 66 was introduced in the 1980s. My question is this:
> is the camera now over seventeen years old and wouldn't that mean that
> any patents applying to the Exakta 66 would now be expired? My question
> primarily relates to the Schneider-only linkage from the lens to the
> prism which is absent in all CZJ and Arsat lenses but could also relate
> to other Exakta 66 improvements. Couldn't Arsenal, in typical "Soviet
> era" fashion blatently copy this system (but now legally)?
>
They copied anything they wanted illegally so why would they have stopped
here? They have no interest in making them compatable with the exakta 66.
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Stacey
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RobGN wrote:
> Are there 3rd party lens makers, like Sigma and Vivitar, in Medium
> Format? Not that I do not want MAMIYA lenses on my MAMIYA M645, I am
> just curious.
>
Search P-6 mount lenses. There are adapters to use these in stop down mode.
The only really good ones worth bothering with are:
30mm fisheye (limited usefulness on 645)
55mm shift arsat (very sharp and good quality control)
60mm schneider curtagon
150mm schneider tele-xenar
and the best of the lot the 180mm F2.8 sonar (bokeh to die for).
The rest are just so-so and many have quality control issues that makes them
more of a hassle than they are worth. Both the schneiders are expensive and
will be more than the mamiya lenses would be. Out of this list, the shift
arsat and the sonar are the two worth owning.
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Stacey
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