ISCO is a German manufacture of precision lenses. They made a lot of well respected of lenses for the Exacta, and later varying quality lenses in M42 mount. The quality seems to run from just awful to excellent, with build quality in the same range depending on era. I don't know if yours is one of the newer plastic body .lenses or an older machined metal version, but I doubt it's worth repairing. It probably isn't all that rare and thought there are really very few 50mm lenses optically terrible it's unlikely to be a sterling performer after fungus removal.
Beaker wrote: > Hi- > > What is the reputation of JSCO-GOTTINGEN? > > I just bought a Westar 50mm, f2.8 lens, in M-42 mount, on e-bay. For > $12.00, including shipping. Was curious about the lens, and he price > was right. > > It arrived today, and I'm glad that is all I paid. Dosn't look like > it is coated, it has traces of fungus, the iris is stiff, and focus > isn't very smooth. Unless it is valuable enough to send out for > repair, I think I'll use it as my first attempt at lens repair. > > Any favorite web pages that deal with lens repair? > > Thanks for your help, > Mike Beacom > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
