Amazing Lens Found In Bag Of Junk!

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.

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.

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

Fantastic report. Love your channel ❤

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

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.

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 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.

Love the videos!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ?

Thanks!