I recently bought an M42 to Minolta AF converter ring on eBay and this gave me the idea for this page.

Here I would like to use some old M42 screw lenses on my Minolta Dynax 7D to show how they can perform.

The results from the first few lenses so far have been astonishing, so I thought of sharing them with you.

 

Index:
       
Russian Industar-50-2 Pentacon 50mm F 1.8 Pentax Takumar 135mm F3.5 Pre-set Zeiss 135mm F3.5 Sonar
Pentax SMC 28mm F3.5 Yashica 35mm F2.8 Zeiss Flektogon 35mm F2.4 Cosina 55mm F1.4
Pentacon 29mm F2.8 Russian MIR-1, 37mm F2.8 Tamron 28mm F2.5 Zeiss Tessar 50mm F2.8
Pentax 35mm F3.5
Super-Takumar		 Zeiss Pancolar 50mm F1.8    
       

 

Russian Industar-50-2 , 50mm F3.5

These pictures were taken on a very cold but sunny day ( canal is frozen on the surface! ).

 

 

Pentacon 50mm F1.8

These pictures were taken on a very cold but sunny day ( canal is frozen on the surface! ).

 

 

Pentax Takumar 135mm F 3.5 Preset

These pictures were taken on a very cold but sunny day ( canal is frozen on the surface! ).

 

 

Zeiss 135mm F3.5 MC S

This lens has a couple of cleaning scratch marks on its front element. These don't seem to affect the pictures at all.

These pictures were taken on a very cold but sunny day ( canal is frozen on the surface! ).

 

 

Pentax Super-Multi-Coated 28mm F3.5

 These were taken on a very cold, windy and overcast day.

 

 
Yashica Yashinon-DX 35mm F2.8

Serial No.  3813091

 These were taken on a very cold, windy and overcast day.

 

 
Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm F2.4

Serial No.: 10008700

  1st day of spring 2006!!!!

 

 
Cosina 55mm F1.4       1st day of spring 2006!!!!

 

 
Pentacon 29mm F2.8        1st day of spring 2006!!!!

 

 
Russian MIR-1 37mm F2.8

Serial No.: N747402

    1st day of spring 2006!!!!

This lens seems to have very good colour saturation, I very much like the vivid colours.

 

 
Tamron 28mm F2.5 1st day of spring 2006!!!!

Could not reach infinity with this lens, hence only a few photos at the moment.

 

   
Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm F2.8

Serial No.: 9031365

  
   

 

 

   
Pentax Super-Takumar 35mm F3.5

Serial No.: 1319439

  
   

 

 

   
Carl  Zeiss Pancolar 50mm F 1.8

Serial No.: 9706839