[Konvas] Want to buy lomo cine lens (Karen Pouye)

[Anders Banke]

--- Karen Pouye <karenp at exemail.com.au> wrote:
 
>
> Is a Lomo and a Konvas the same thing? What does OST and OKS mean?

OST actually means State Standard (in fact it should be GOST, for
"gosudarstvennyy standart", and I actually don't know why they dropped the
"G" in this particular case, it has always puzzled me). The full name for
the OST-19 lens mount is in fact OST 19-144-83, which is the Soviet
standardization organizations' registration number for this particular
standard.

You can read about GOST here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOST

OKS means "Ob'ektiv KinoS'emochnyj", which basically means "Lens for Cinema
Use".


/Anders


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