STANDARD FOCUS INDUSTAR-26m 50mm F/2.8 LENS

Industar-26M is a normal angle (standard) coated LTM lens with Lanthanum optics for Leica, FED, Zorki, Bessa and other rangefinder cameras. Industar-26M lenses issued at FED plant for FED-2, early FED-3 and Zarja cameras. Then Industar-26M lens was replaced by very sharp Industar-61 L/D lens with lanthanum elements. Presented Industar-26M lens is one of Soviet versions of famous 4-elemnt Carl Zeiss Tessar lens. It can be mounted on any LTM RF camera, include modern Bessa cameras, and it can be used with a lot of digital Micro 4/3 cameras with the adapter. In the main, most all Soviet lenses are exceptionally good and this one is no exception! ITEM'S CONDITION: EXCELLENT++++ The glass is very clean, without scratches, separations or fungus, but very minor cleaning marks can be found. Aperture blades open and close smoothly, focusing is smooth too. Cosmetically the lens looks nice, just examine item's photos, please. All functions available. NOTE: Soviet lens manufacturers wrote even about NEW lenses: "The components of modern high quality lenses are produced from special grades of glass. The smelting process involved causes inevitable formation of gasses which get trapped in the glass to form bubbles. They are always noticed with complex photographic lenses. The bubbles do not affect the lens performance or the quality of the image. Soviet state standards also allows the presence of next minor defects: scratches with the width less than 0.02mm at each surface of each optical element with total length no more than double element's diameter; dots with diameter less than 0.3mm no more than 5 dots; several minor pieces of dust and no more 2 napkin fibers with the length no more 3mm. Therefore, the factory does not accept claims about bubbles and minor defects of clearance found in lenses or exchange such lenses." TECHNICAL FEATURES * Focus: 52 mm. * Angle of view: about 45 degrees. * Relative aperture: 1:2.8 * Aperture: from 2.8 up to 22 (without clicks). * Aperture has 10 blades and provides very accurate shape, near circular. * Coated optics with Russian red symbol "n" (it sounds like P=prosvetlenije, this symbol was removed since beginning of 1960s, when all Russian optics became coated). * Front part of the lens is don't rotates when You adjust a sharpness, it allows to use rectangular shape lens hoods. * Mounting: screw mount M39 LTM (Leica Thread Mount). The lens can be used with latest Leica M cameras with simple adapter. * The lens is well-applicable for digital cameras with micro 4/3 system and other with working distance 28.8mm and less, with the use of adapters: All Sony NEX, Olympus, Panasonic: Lumix DMC-G1, DMC-GH1, DMC-GF1, DMC-G2, DMC-G10, Epson, Samsung and other. * Resolution: (pairs of lines per 1 mm): not less than 42 in the center and 30 the edge of frame. * Filter mount: groove 40.5x0.5mm. * Compact and light. * Made at FED plant at Harkov city. * The lens is signed INDUSTAR-26m. * White body coating. We are more than happy to welcome any international bidders!!! We ship the item FREE WORLDWIDE! Item will be shipped via Russian Mail service immediately upon receipt of your payment. Shipping time is mostly about 2-3 weeks to receive the item as Registered Air Mail package with the tracking number (or by registered and insured Air Mail parcel for heavy items), but sometimes (but not very often) it can be up to two month. If you need really fast shipping, DHL and UPS are available here, but shipping a metal 35mm camera can cost over $100, thus this kind of shipping is rarely used.