FS: Tiny 50mm for Sony A7/NEX - (THIS IS THE SMALLEST 50mm EVER MADE)

Up for grabs is the Russian collapsible 50mm 3.5 Industar, it is a copy of the famous Leica Elmar lens.

It is 65+ years old, literally older than 99% of the people on this forum!

The fact that it survived and can hold it's own with modern lenses is a miracle.

Asking $50 shipped(US or international)

will come with the Leica L39 to Sony FE/ E mount adapter.

It has normal wear for a lens this age, as can be seen in the pics.
The focus tab and aperture both work, no sticking at all.

Only con is the infinity lock on the focus tab doesn't lock/unlock when the lens is screwed in all the way, you simply unscrew the lens a bit to unlock/lock it. Or you can just leave it unlocked all the time like I did. You hit infinity without locking it so it's not an issue. To fix this you can just drill a hole in the adapter, but I didn't want to do that so I just left it unlocked. This is JUST for the focus tab, the lens itself locks into place normally, no worries about it falling off.

When collapsed the lens clears the shutter by 5-8mm, so it clears it by a lot.

the lens is made out of lightweight aluminum and brass, no plastic crap. It weighs next to nothing.

Reason for selling is I need funds so I'm selling all my excess gear.

Samples:

at 3.5 Wide Open (unscrewed the lens a bit to lower MFD), you can do this on the fly for free instead of having to buy an expensive helicoil adapter like with other lenses.
(was having trouble linking this pic look at the bottom)

3.5 Wide Open

5.6

8.0

all samples are just jpegs out of the camera, not even raws!

Used the camera in aperture priority, so it has no metering issues and the focus aids work like a charm.


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