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Omnar Lenses

6 June, 2025

NEWS: Omnar Bertele FLB 50mm f/2 – Finally Announced

By Hamish Gill

Those who follow what I get up to will know I am half of Omnar Lenses. Well, today we finally announced the Omnar Bertele. I will save you all the waffle, as it can all be read ...
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20 December, 2024

NEWS: Introducing the Omnar 35mm f/3.5 Pantessa FLB (YS35-35FLB)

By Hamish Gill

The Omnar 35mm f/3.5 Pantessa (short for pancake-tessar) is a limited-edition rehousing of the Carl Zeiss 35mm f/3.5 optics found in the Yashica T, T3, T4 and T5 Super cameras. ...
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28 June, 2024

Omnar/Skyllaney Converted Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 40mm f/1.4 – Mini Review

By Hamish Gill

Working with Chris and Vita Andreyo to setup Omnar lenses has been one of the most enjoyable projects I have been a part of in my working life. It has been really exciting bring...
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22 March, 2024

Carl Zeiss 38mm Sonnar / Omnar CX38-28 for use on Hasselblad XCD and Fuji GFX

By Christopher Andreyo

Hamish asked me recently to write an article about my findings on the Carl Zeiss 38mm f/2.8 Sonnar (/Omnar CX38-28) when mounted on Hasselblad XCD and Fuji GFX cameras. Wait… 38...
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21 February, 2024

5 Frames with an Omnar Lenses CX38-28 – Contax T/T2 M-Mount Lens Conversion – on a Leica M10-P

By Hamish Gill

We are finally nearly there. The Omnar Lenses conversion of the Contaxt T/T2 38mm 2.8 Sonnar will be released for purchase off the website around Easter time. The lens will be c...
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15 May, 2023

Omnar LT42-45 Barnack – Leitz Summar 42mm f/4.5 – Lens Review

By Agata Urbaniak

Most of my other lens reviews have been pretty straightforward. I’d offer a little bit of their history followed by physical characteristics, compatibility issues, and finally m...
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23 June, 2022

NEWS: Omnar Lenses Brass E39 Lens caps & pixl-latr ‘Parts Kits’

By Hamish Gill

As some (many?) of you might know, in recent years I have been working on two brands of photography products, Omnar lenses and pixl-latr. I have little bits of news about both b...
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15 October, 2021

Omnar Lenses CN26-6 – 26mm f/6 – My First Lens Coming to Market!

By Hamish Gill

The Omnar CN26-6 is a 26mm f/6, fixed aperture, rangefinder coupled, wide angle, snapshot lens for Leica M-mount cameras. On paper, it sounds absolutely brilliant to me, but the...
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