AbyssalLoris
Member
Hello All,
This may not be the right place to ask at all, but I am having some trouble identifying a lens that I got hold of recently.
It is a Kowa 77mm lens. It says 1:1.1/77 on the front. I assume that means a focal ration of 77/1.1. I was hoping to be able to adapt this to a regular SLR (Nikon) for use as an extreme close-up setup. This has nothing to do with birding (sorry). I am only asking here because all my searches about Kowa lenses resulted in Kowa spotting scopes with 77mm objectives.
What I have is not a scope, its only a lens with a metal barrel, is about 4 inch long and weighs around 3-4 lb I suppose. It has a screw-thread mount of some sort at the rear. Anyone know exactly what this is and what the mount type is?
Thanks very much.
This may not be the right place to ask at all, but I am having some trouble identifying a lens that I got hold of recently.
It is a Kowa 77mm lens. It says 1:1.1/77 on the front. I assume that means a focal ration of 77/1.1. I was hoping to be able to adapt this to a regular SLR (Nikon) for use as an extreme close-up setup. This has nothing to do with birding (sorry). I am only asking here because all my searches about Kowa lenses resulted in Kowa spotting scopes with 77mm objectives.
What I have is not a scope, its only a lens with a metal barrel, is about 4 inch long and weighs around 3-4 lb I suppose. It has a screw-thread mount of some sort at the rear. Anyone know exactly what this is and what the mount type is?
Thanks very much.