Who's Seikanon?
Nov 17, 2017 19:36:50 #
I got one of those great deals on ebay for a Pentax ME Super in nearly mint condition, but rather than the standard SMC Pentax-M lens, it had a Seikanon 28mm f/2.8 lens with macro capabilities. My question is who's Seikanon? Is there anybody that can comment on these lenses, good or bad? Does this company even exist anymore?
Nov 17, 2017 20:00:49 #
Nov 17, 2017 20:24:55 #
melonhead wrote:
I got one of those great deals on ebay for a Pentax ME Super in nearly mint condition, but rather than the standard SMC Pentax-M lens, it had a Seikanon 28mm f/2.8 lens with macro capabilities. My question is who's Seikanon? Is there anybody that can comment on these lenses, good or bad? Does this company even exist anymore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTY3qbLOBE
Good lens, stop down at f4 and +, at f2.8 it is horrible.
This lens has been manufacture by at least 3 company!
If you want it, you can also search this 28mm with the name:
Sicor-XL MC 28mm Macro
Porst-WW MC 28mm Macro
Sirius 28mm and maybe some others
Apr 9, 2020 17:08:53 #
blackest wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTY3qbLOBE
Good lens, stop down at f4 and +, at f2.8 it is horrible.
This lens has been manufacture by at least 3 company!
If you want it, you can also search this 28mm with the name:
Sicor-XL MC 28mm Macro
Porst-WW MC 28mm Macro
Sirius 28mm and maybe some others
Good lens, stop down at f4 and +, at f2.8 it is horrible.
This lens has been manufacture by at least 3 company!
If you want it, you can also search this 28mm with the name:
Sicor-XL MC 28mm Macro
Porst-WW MC 28mm Macro
Sirius 28mm and maybe some others
Seikanon was the house brand for Kit's Cameras, a chain of 200+ West Coast and Mountain West camera shops that was bought by Ritz and then crashed along with the rest of the company in the early 2010's. I worked at Kits Everett Mall off and on from 1986 until 1996, when the franchisee who owned that store sold back to corporate Kits as part of the overall sale to Ritz.
As sales guys, we were aware of the various build qualities of numerous Seikanon lens--they could be superb to sub par. I owned three of them myself for my first SLR, a Ricoh XR-10. In store, we compared versions of lens that were 'remarkably' similar to Tokina, Vivatar, and Tamron. I can say that the 70-210 and the 28-80 lens that I bought in 1986, while not super bright, were good performers. I was bummed when they were stolen a few years later, but not so bummed that I replaced them with exact copies. If you find a clean copy for a little bit of money, it will produce decent image quality, good contrast, and be a fun addition. Seikanon also made a line of filters that in the metal screw ins were identical to the Hoya filters we carried, and in plastic frame were virtually indistinguishable from Tiffen. I do know that Kits film was manufacturer by Konica--although any you found now would be very long out of date.
BTW, we had a lot of folks who came in the store, confused by the name, and thinking it was part of Canon (the Kanon at the end I guess). As we got a spiff off the Seikanon and no commission for the most part on the Canon gear, we didn't try to change their minds too much. ;-)
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