Your Premium Destination for Serviced Vintage Soviet Photography Equipment
The Industar-61 L/Z 50mm f/2.8 is a legendary Soviet prime lens renowned for its exceptional sharpness and unique optical character. Produced primarily at the LZOS factory, it features rare lanthanum glass elements, which significantly enhance contrast, color rendering, and resolution across the frame. A fascinating historical and artistic feature of this lens is its aperture mechanism: at specific f-stops (such as f/5.6 to f/8), the blades form a distinct star-shaped opening, producing a highly sought-after "starry" or "ninja-star" bokeh. Thanks to its Tessar optical design, it also has macro-like close focusing capabilities, making it incredibly versatile. Today, the Industar-61 L/Z is highly prized by modern digital mirrorless and film photographers alike as a razor-sharp creative tool with an unforgettable vintage signature.
This lens is in Excellent Cosmetic & Flawless Mechanical condition. It has been completely disassembled, cleaned, calibrated, and serviced in our specialized workshop:
Deep Cleaned & Relubricated: The long-travel focusing helicoid was completely stripped of sticky, decades-old Soviet factory grease and relubricated with premium modern optical grease. The focus ring now glides with a uniform, buttery-smooth, and precise fluid resistance from 0.3m to infinity.
Dry & Snappy Aperture Mechanism: The specialized star-shaping aperture mechanism has been fully inspected and cleaned of internal oil. The blades are dry and snappy, clicking precisely at every f-stop.
Optics: The lanthanum glass elements are very clean, clear, and properly aligned. No fungus, no scratches, no separation and no haze.
Cosmetics: Outstanding vintage condition. The classic black metal barrel is remarkably clean with minimal signs of previous handling. All distance markings and scales are crisp, sharp, and perfectly readable. (Please review our high-resolution photos for exact cosmetic details).
It performs even better than the day it left the factory!
Please Note: You are purchasing a genuine vintage item, not a brand-new factory product. Because of its age and history, the lens body may show minor, normal signs of previous use and cosmetic wear.The optical elements may have light cleaning marks (faint hairline wipes on the coating) or minor internal micro-dust particles. This is completely standard for lenses of this era and has absolutely zero impact on image quality, contrast, or final photo results.Rest assured, every lens in our shop has been professionally inspected, fully serviced, and thoroughly tested by our master technicians. It is in excellent technical and cosmetic working order, ready to perform beautifully straight out of the box!
We are a specialized professional workshop with extensive, long-term experience in the maintenance, repair, restoration, and modernization of vintage Soviet photographic equipment (lenses, cameras, and accessories). Our passion is breathing new life into legendary classic gear.
Every single item in our store undergoes a meticulous overhaul by seasoned experts. We carefully disassemble, clean, relubricate, and calibrate each piece, completely eliminating decades of aging and original factory assembly defects. When you buy from us, you get a fully functional, reliable artistic tool ready for the modern era.
We ship our products worldwide! All orders are handled with care, packed securely, and processed quickly without any delays.
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