I recently came by a Commercial-Astragon, 1:6.3, f=250mm (10"), No 97540. Does anyone know anything about this? It looks to be a coated tessar type mounted in a Copal No 3. This wouldn't be the famous Congo product would it? Thanks, David

-- david clark (paintfore@earthlink.com), July 23, 2000

Answers

Response to who made this lens?

David,

I don't have my lens resource in front of me but I think it was Ilex.

-- kevin kemner (kkemner@tateandsnyder.com), July 23, 2000.

Response to who made this lens?

Yamasaki.

-- sheldon hambrick (sheldon_hambrick@hotmail.com), July 23, 2000.

Response to who made this lens?

Well, guess I'm getting too old to trust my memory. Sorry for the misleading information.

-- kevin (kkemner@tateandsnyder.com), July 23, 2000.

Response to who made this lens?

Thanks all, I contacted Congo, and they confirmed it was their's.

-- david clark (paintfore@earthlink.net), July 25, 2000.