Panagor

Panagor made an automatic 2× converter in the Pentacon Six mount.  One experienced user describes it as being of “amateur quality”.
For a review of this converter, see the Lens Test section.  To go to the lens test section, click here.

Tiger

Auto Tele Converter 2x
This was apparently at times marketed in the USA.  It appears to be a re-labelled Panagor converter.

WEP Hamburg

AUTO KINOTELEX 2x converter
This was a German brand name apparently applied principally to re-badged items from other manufacturers.  It appears to be a re-labelled Panagor converter.

Rodenstock Muenchen
 

Lens name	Aperture/ focal length	Type
Imagon H	4.5/120	soft focus lens, variations
Imagon H	5.8/180	soft focus lens
Imagon H	5.8/200	soft focus lens, variations

This was and is one of the great German (1945-1990, West German) lens manufacturers, and these lenses have a high reputation for the quality of the images that they can produce.
They are essentially designed as portrait lenses, for use principally in a studio situation.

Atzmueller & Rendl Linz
 

Lens name	Aperture/ focal length	Type
Vario-Flex II with Beryl	6.8/90	tilt&shift
Vario-Flex II with Symmar	5.6/105	tilt&shift

I have no further information on these lenses.

Hartblei
 

Lens name	Aperture/ focal length	Type	Other information
Hartblei MC	3.5/30	ASB	modified Arsenal lens, variations
Hartblei MC	3.5/45	ASB	modified Arsenal lens, own production/Lytarkino parts
Hartblei MC	3.5/45	PCS shift	modified Arsenal lens, own production/Lytarkino parts
Hartblei MC	3.5/45	TS-PC tilt & shift	modified Arsenal lens, own production/Lytarkino parts
Hartblei MC	3.5/45	TS-PC tilt & shift super rotator	modified Arsenal lens, own production/Lytarkino parts, variations
Hartblei MC	3.5/65	ASB	modified Arsenal lens, own production/Lytarkino parts
Hartblei MC	3.5/65	PCS shift	modified Arsenal lens, own production/Lytarkino parts
Hartblei MC	2.8/80	ASB	modified Arsenal lens, variations
Hartblei MC	2.8/120	ASB	modified Arsenal lens
Hartblei MC	2.8/150	ASB	modified Arsenal lens, own production/Lytarkino parts
Hartblei MC	4.5/300	FB	modified Lytarkino Rubinar mirror lens
Hartblei MC	5.6/500	FB	modified Lytarkino Rubinar mirror lens
Hartblei MC	8/500	FB	modified Lytarkino Rubinar mirror lens

ASB = Automatische Springblende = Fully Automatic Diaphragm
FB = Fest (?) Blende = No diaphragm (as is standard with mirror lenses)
“Variations” means that more than one version of this lens is attested.

Two of the Rubinar lenses are tested here (scroll down).  The lenses in the test were not the Hartblei version, which is reported to have much better coverage.

Arax
 

Lens name	Aperture/ focal length	Type
Arax MC	2.8/80	ASB, modified Arsenal lens
Arax MC	5.6/500	FB, modified Lytarkino Rubinar mirror lens

Altländer Kameratechnik Jork
 

Lens name	Aperture/ focal length	Type
Altaplan MH MC	2.8/80	ASB, re-labelled Arsenal lens

Other manufacturers

It is reasonably easy to adapt other lenses to fit the Pentacon Six – at least if one does include auto aperture control  –  and other manufacturers may have offered their lenses in the Pentacon Six mount.  I personally doubt if many of these lenses were available from stock in the Pentacon Six mount, and some of them may have never been produced in this mount.

For the same reason, it is possible to modify some medium-format lenses and almost any large-format lens for use on a Pentacon Six or Praktisix, and occasionally such privately-modified lenses appear.  It is obviously not possible to provide data on such lenses.

This data is based on published sources and information from a collector, to whom I express my thanks.

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