Are these M42 lenses worth bringing back?

Hi all, I am in the process of clearing my fathers house in Australia. There are a number of interesting M42 lenses I have found and I wanted to see if anyone here knew if they are worth bringing back to the UK for use or sale. I cannot mount them at the moment. A couple of them are ones i have never seen before:


Duo-Tamron 135mm f4.5 / 225mm f7.7 - I have never seen anything like this before. Very compact and solid, it looks early, possibly 1950s. It has a very nice rounded aperture. Comes in a leather zip case with hood and scres on front cap. This includes the adapter that makes it into a 225mm f7.7 lens. It looks like it could be a T mount with the original M42 adapter.

Oreston Meyer Optik Gorlitz 50mm f1.8 Zebra style - a bit hazed around the edges of the front element and the aperture sticks once in a while when it is set to f22

Hanimar Automatic 35mm f2.8 - seems to work well. Glass pretty clear, odd bits of dust inside

Boxed Swallow double rail bellows - looks in good condition, cannot see any wear on the bellows bit

Petri Penta with 50mm f2 Kuribayashi c.c. Petri Orikkor - Mirror is up, not sure if this is working but clean looking body. Nice compact lens but it has a bit of haze. Looks 1960s?

Helios 44M 4 58mm f2 - bit of dust inside but seems ok.

Helios 44M 58mm f2 ?Older USSR version with 8 blade aperture. Bit of dust inside but all seems to work as expected

They have all got signs of use. There are some photos for an indication of what they look like here: https://picasaweb.google.com/pano180/M42LensesToSell

Hi,

If you intend to use them, bring them back and sell off those you would not be using over there, Regards

Oso

Going from my limited experience and research I'd say the 2 Helios lenses are probably worth bringing back to use or sell.

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The Hanimar is a budget version of a budget lens range...the ones that were better were marked Hanimex. I should imagine quite poor on digital, but for portraits who knows, could be great.

The Helios lenses are crude but effective and might be worth trying out.

The Duo-Tamron looks interesting and might be successful on eBay.

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Best regards, John

I had a Hanimex 135mm f2.8 in K-mount... It was truly awful... I didn't even try to sell it on, just binned it to save you all from wasting your pennies on it...

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Thanks guys, that has helped a bit, I think I know which ones I would like to try out now. Luggage capacity is becoming the deciding factor, so I think the Petri is staying here. I will bring back the more interesting ones and try them out I think.

If luggage capacity is becoming a factor you could always send some of your clothes back by post to make room for important stuff

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Mike
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Pentax:K7, K100D, DA18-55, DA10-17, DA55-300, DA50-200, F100-300, F50, DA35 AL, 4* M50, 2* M135, Helicoid extension, Tak 300 f4 (& 6 film bodies)
3rd Party: Bigmos (Sigma 150-500mm OS HSM),2* 28mm, 100mm macro, 28-200 zoom, 35-80 zoom, 80-200 zoom, 80-210 zoom, 300mm M42, 600 mirror, 1000-4000 scope, 50mm M42, enlarger lenses, micro 4/3 camera with tiltable PK mount, Zenit E...
Far to many tele-converters, adapters, project parts & extension tubes etc.

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Actually I was thinking about just dumping the clothes, except that I need them as packing . Postage is expensive here now as well.

Hand luggage the lot if that is still possible

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K10D, K5 plus plenty of clueless enthusiasm.

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Would it not be better to post the lenses?

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Best regards, John

Postage too costly John, estimate is about £60 for . I used to always carry my pentax metal primes in my suitcase and never had any problems, but I mo longer trust the airlines for manhandling luggage. They will be safely in sight in the overhead locker, probably with more legroom than me!

No one has mentioned the bellows, I think they are a definite must bring, the lenses with haze I would forget.

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