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EP1+kiron 24/2
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国外网站上的一些关于KIRON镜头的资料：

History
The company was set up as a U.S. subsidiary of Kino Precision Industries Limited, Tokyo, Japan and registered as a trademark on Jan 25 1980[1], in order to market manually focused film camera optical lenses to the United States. Kino Precision was originally formed by a group of engineers formerly employed at Nikon, who had developed their own designs for 35mm (24x36mm)-film-format camera lenses. These lenses were offered in a variety of camera mounts to fit a number of different Japanese cameras, including Canon, Contax, Konica, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, and Pentax.

Originally, Kino Precision manufactured some of the now-famous Series 1 manual focus lenses under contract for Vivitar, a U.S. lens distributor of after-market film lenses for 35mm cameras. However, after the positive reception from consumers on Vivitar Series 1 lenses, the company believed the time was right to successfully market lenses to fit existing 35mm Japanese film cameras under their own brand, Kiron. Kiron soon became known as one of the very few after-market lens manufacturers that could supply products equal to or even exceeding the optical and mechanical quality of the original manufacturer. In particular, the Kiron 28mm/2.0, the 105mm/2.8 1:1 macro[2], the 28-210mm/4.0-5.6 and the 3.8-5.6 varifocal zoom, and the 28-85mm/2.8-3.8 varifocal macro zoom lenses were praised in contemporary reviews of the day for their superb optical resolution and clarity, as well as mechanical quality.[3][4][5]

Although reasonably priced for the level of quality offered, Kiron manual focus lenses were never economy-level products, and were always made and assembled in Japan.[6] As such, Kiron lenses produced during the 1980s were normally priced only slightly below lenses offered by the camera manufacturers themselves. Later, Vivitar itself would purchase some Kiron/Kino lens designs, (such as the Kiron 105mm f/2.8 macro lens, re-labeled as the Vivitar 100mm f/2.8 macro and the Vivitar 105mm/2.5 (1:1) macro lenses), and offered them for sale under the Vivitar brand.

The increasing cost of quality lens manufacture in Japan led to a loss of sales for Kiron, as the company could no longer offer its lenses at a cost less than that charged by the camera manufacturers, who had begun to offer economy-level lens designs as well as contracting lens assembly operations in lower-cost factories outside Japan. Additionally, the 35mm camera market was in flux by the late 1980s, and 35mm camera manufacturers were transitioning to autofocus lens designs. By 1988, the company decided to discontinue after-market 35mm camera lens production to concentrate on industrial and other markets.

In 1989 Kino Precision Industries merged with 'Melles Griot Japan' to form 'Kino-Melles Griot'.

In 1995 the firm has changed its name to 'Melles Griot Ltd', and subsequently became a member of CVI Melles Griot Group in 2007.

In June 2011 Illinois-based IDEX Corporation completed its $400 million acquisition of the laser and optical component maker CVI Melles Griot from its previous owner, the private equity firm Norwest Equity Partners.[7]

Types
Lenses for 35 mm film cameras:

24mm 1:2.0
28mm 1:2.8
28mm 1:2.0
28–70mm 1:3.5–4.5 (two versions)
28–70mm 1:4.0
28–85mm 1:2.8–3.8 varifocal macro zoom (aka "The Stovepipe")
28–105mm 1:3.2–4.5 (two versions) varifocal zoom
28-210mm 1:3.8-5.6 varifocal zoom (14 elements/11 groups)
28–210mm 1:4.0–5.6 varifocal zoom (14 elements/11 groups)
30–80mm 1:3.5–4.5 varifocal zoom
35–135mm 1:3.5–4.5 varifocal zoom
105mm 1:2.8 (macro 1:1)(6 elements/6 groups)
70–150mm 1:4.0
70–210mm 1:4.0 (two versions)
70–210mm 1:4.5
80–200mm 1:4.0
80–200mm 1:4.5 (six versions)
Lenses were made in the following lens mounts:

Canon FD
Konica AR
Minolta MD
Nikon F AI and AI-S
Olympus OM
Pentax K and KA
Contax/Yashica

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D80+kiron 24/2
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富士S3 Pro+KIRON 24/2, 赞叹S3的宽容度和镜头的表现。

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D80+kiron 24/2, 传奇的80岁！

一支传说中的传奇镜头

       KIRON是KINO公司的品牌，KINO精工是一家顶一流的制造商，精密加工的翘楚。上世纪七十年代KINO是VIVITAR的第一大OEM厂家，生产VIVITAR著名的SERIES 1镜头系列。后来由于与VIVITAR公司产生了一些问题，KINO公司开始生产自己品牌的镜头，定名为KIRON。1980年在美国推出KIRON镜头就成了畅销货，其销售额在当年美国市场上名列前茅，显示了KINO镜头的优良素质。
KIRON 24mm 2.0镜头最近对焦距离0.3M，光圈F2-16，口径55MM。这支头做工很好，全金属镜筒。锐度，色彩还原能力和畸变与HEXANON相当，在全开光圈时依然有不俗的表现。是最该拥有的KIRON镜头，但这支头比较少见 。KIRON的镜头现在价格不算太高（我这支AI口的24/2头成色很新，是于2012年初以179美元从EBAY淘得），其中24/2、28/2和105/2.8Macro这三支头被玩家看作是很超值的镜头。
      我用KIRON 24mm 2.0这支头接尼康D700、D80、富士S3Pro和奥林巴斯EP1相机拍了一些照片，在这里跟大家分享与交流。 本帖最后由 天外天54 于 2012-4-18 16:22 编辑