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  1. Martin Rickards
    In fact, it was Meopta's 50mm f5.6 that won out as the best of them all, apo Rodagons included. That lens was discontinued even then, much to the annoyance of the writer. All lenses were tested at f8 and obviously that may not have been the optimum for all lenses. PS. I meant to reply to arthur_gottschalk's post
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    Here's a French site with a ranking of the then available lenses for 35mm and 6x6. The best lens of the lot wasn't either Rodenstock, Schneider or El Nikkor. http://leodium.net/35mm/Objectifs%20agrandisseur.pdf
  3. Martin Rickards
    There are also excellent Fuji, Durst and Minolta lenses available and I'd guess that few could tell the difference between any prints made with six-element lenses.
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    A lot of Hanimex stuff was distributed by Jessops in the UK along with other cheap and cheerful lenses, Occasionally Jessop came up with much higher quality surprises under their own brand. Their 6 element 50mm f2.8 enlarging lens might be an example. JESSOPS 50mm f/2.8, 6 ELEMENT DARKROOM ENLARGER LENS | eBay
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    My Hanimex 35-70 mm zoom also has "unusual" f2.5-3.5 max aperture values. But it has 4 control rings: a miserly quarter turn for normal focusing from 0.7 m to infinity, a tad more for the focal length, another quarter turn for macro selection and the aperture. It takes some getting used to. It doesn't have a green line though:(
  6. Martin Rickards
    I read somewhere that those"green line" Hanimexes, like yours and the one in the OP, were a cut above the regular type, which were fairly budget lenses.
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    Granada Minolta XG2, Ilford FP4+
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    I also picked up a Hanimex rarity, attached to a Minolta X500. It was a 35-70 mm f2.5-3.5 zoom. It has a macro capability of 1:2.7 and is very similar to the Soligor and Access zooms of the same specifications which are seen a bit more frequently. For these latter two Sun and Kobori were mentioned as possible manufacturers. It seems to perform adequately and also seems to have constant max aperture up to 60 mm focal length when the smaller aperture kicks in..
  9. Martin Rickards
    Another one here, with an X500 (570 for you in America), a,bright short zoom and FP4+. I started with an SRT101.
  10. Martin Rickards
    I'm new here and interested mainly in B/W photography and darkroom matters..
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