Taking lens kit for pre 36

[Lee Kelly]

S35 sensor size, what would be the ideal taking kit.

Helios 58 seems popular.

Mir 37mm?

Jupiter 9 85mm?

Tair 11 135mm?

[jgharding]

I have exactly this setup. The Mir has masses of distortion and vignetting but can look cool. The rest work well, though colour varies a lot between them.

[Lee Kelly]

hmmmm it would be cool to have a couple of focal lengths that kind of match well but make the most of the iscorama. The search continues.

Helios make some other focal lengths right?

[richg101]

older summicrons..  35 (snooted front), 50 (snooted front) and 90.  for s35 i don;t think there are a better matched set.  serials starting before 28xxxxxxxx tend to have coatings that work well with the single coatings of the isco.

[veraguth]

Nikon 50mm 1.8D. it works great and it is cheap.

[Lee Kelly]

Hey Rich101,

I have been sourcing a few of your lenses second hand and have one that I think will be awesome on the pre 36. I have ordered some rings to make it work but obviously would have loved an optimised version from you directly but understand you are super busy so didnt want to feel rejected when you werent able to reply to an email ha ha my fragile ego ha ha

The leicas could be awesome so maybe ill have a look at those...

 

Also trying to buy a Kowa Bell and Howell 2x and looking to build a nice little set of taking lenses for this as well.

I shoot on Red Dragon.