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JC Penney Any Good
I got a JC Penney 28mm wide angle lens in Pentax mount. I think JC Penney could be an American brand however I do think it's a Makinon lens. Any good? Feb 02 13 11:57 am Link JC Penney was an American Department Store. I thought they went under about 15 or 20 years ago, but I might be wrong. The lens will just be branded with their name. Feb 02 13 12:02 pm Link I didn't know they went under. I hope the lens is in the same league as the Nikon 24mm. Feb 02 13 12:08 pm Link Al Lock Photography wrote: No, JC Penneys is still around. Feb 02 13 12:10 pm Link Jim McSmith wrote: I very much doubt it. I would expect something of the same quality as the old Nikon E series (although the 75-150 E was a very sharp lens) to be branded with JC Penney's name, not anything approaching Nikkor quality. Feb 02 13 12:11 pm Link Major department store chains such as JCPenny or Sears would "name brand" items they sold. Name branding is putting your name on merchandise that you sell. They could have contracted with any lens company to produce that lens. And based on bids for that year, they would change manufacturers but the lens would remain the same. In all probability that lens was not made by a primary manufacturer like Nikon or Canon. It could have been made by Soligar, Tamron, or Tokina. Feb 02 13 12:15 pm Link Jc Penny, Sears and even Kmart use to sell brand glass as well as cameras. I use to own a slr film camera that Sears sold. It shared the Ricoh mount. The glass was good on many of those cameras. Feb 02 13 12:16 pm Link Al Lock Photography wrote: Nope, they are alive and well, we have one in town. Feb 02 13 03:05 pm Link I had a few JCP / Sears primes for my Minolta cameras. Using them with an adapter for my digital cameras - they still work well. Feb 02 13 03:27 pm Link I think JC Penny is pretty equivalent to Tesco. Fyiw. Feb 02 13 03:45 pm Link The earliest JCP lenses were made by Pentax, I believe. Then came Ricoh and Soligor - I forget what order. After that, they were more-or-less all nobodies. So if it's a JCP lens from the early 70s, it might be pretty solid. If it's late 70s or 80s, it's probably terrible. Feb 03 13 08:07 am Link Al Lock Photography wrote: Uh, JC Penny is very much still in business, we pick up their $$$$$ every day!:-) Feb 03 13 08:15 am Link I bought my very first SLR from JC Penny a Minolta SR-T 101 back in 1975. Also several lens that were pretty darn sharp. I would say go for it, I'm sure its a decent piece of glass. Feb 03 13 08:20 am Link Legacys 7 wrote: My understanding is that Sears' "Tower" brand cameras were made by Mamiya (35mm) and Graflex (Medium and Large Format), lenses by Mamiya and Vivitar. Kmart's "Focal" brand was by Yashica and Ricoh. JCPenny's earliest were (for the first year or so) Pentax, then Ricoh and Cosina. This info was from an amateur repair guy here in town in the '70s. Feb 03 13 08:38 am Link George Ruge wrote: Exactly. They were in the news this past week. Feb 03 13 10:34 am Link maso-arts wrote: Possible. But I do know for a fact that my old Sears slr camera lens mount was a Ricoh. I know this because when I'd gave my brother my Sear camera, I'd kept the zoom lens and it fitted on my Ricoh camera. Feb 03 13 10:36 am Link I have a JCPenny lens {28mm} that i use for my IR images since i don't need tack-sharp perfprmance there. Acceptable results, especially when stopped down to 5.6-11, but no where near the Nikon/Canon glass quality. It's a fun lens = you should give it a workout and see if it fits your needs ~ respects, mike Feb 03 13 10:43 am Link Al Lock Photography wrote: I have an old JC Penney lens. As I recall it was made my Minolta. Feb 03 13 10:45 am Link |
