No, it is just a trading company, rebadging only, no manufacturing facilities anywhere (?). IIRC the later SLRs were rebadged Chinons. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: Have you ever heard of Porst lenses?
Yes, German company. I seem to remember a connection with Swiss "Alpha", but I'm not shure. Perhaps realated to DDR kameras from the Dresden manufacturers, Pentacon, Ihagee, Zeiss Ikon etc Anyway, look: http://www.praktica-collector.de/134_Porst_reflex_FX2.htm http://www.praktica-collector.de/162_Porst_FX4.htm
http://search.ebay.de/porst_Porst_W0QQcatrefZC12QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentryp ageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfromZR2QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsaatsZ77QQ sacatZ4702
All the best Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Wilko Bulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 7. februar 2005 08:36 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: Re: Have you ever heard of Porst lenses?
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:44:44PM -0500, Larry Cook wrote..I have run across a 135/1.8 lens for Pentax K mount that I have never heard of. It is a Porst. Porst I believe is a German camera company and the lens was actuallt made by a Japanese company named Tomioka. Does anyone know anything about this Porst/Tomioka lens or about the brand in general?
Porst is indeed a German company. To the best of my knowledge they never had manufacturing capability, rather they sold OEM-ed stuff under their own name. Most likely different OEMs as well.
Around here (the Netherlands) the Porst stuff does not fetch any real money at used-camera markets. For what that means..
Wilko
