Steinheil Culminar 85mm 2.8 (01) - a photo on Flickriver

Steinheil München Culminar 1:2.8 f=85mm .
German LTM (M39) Lens.
Production year not exactly known but probably late 1940's and/or early 1950's.

One of the lesser known lenses with LTM (Leica Thread Mount) (M39 thread).
I bought this lens on a recent Photographica Fair here in The Netherlands.

It was cheap and did fit surprisingly well to my Canon 7.

The condition you see here is right after the buy.
Dirty and obviously it received quite an amount of use in its life => cheap.

The glass elements looked good though, no fungus only some flaked paint chips inside.

The Culminar is sometimes described as a Tessar formula lens but this is not true for this 85mm specimen. It might however be true for Culminars with a shorter focal distance.
On this 85mm i observe 4 separate glass elements.

See also :
camera-wiki.org/wiki/39mm_screw_lenses#Steinheil

Taken on: November 10, 2014

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