Dallon

Gillespie lists the following lenses from this manufacturer with only the focal length and the maximum aperture:
 

He states, “All of the above have click-stopped diaphragm (not pre-set)”.

Adon

Gillespie lists six lens in the Pentacon Six mount from a company called Adon.  They all have a maximum aperture of f/4.5.  The focal lengths are:
229mm, 300mm, 356mm, 432mm, 508mm and 610mm.  I personally doubt if some of these lenses were ever manufactured in this mount, and am sure that they never entered serial production.  Gillespie states, “All of the above have click-stopped diaphragm (not pre-set)”.

Panagor

Panagor made a 2× converter in the Pentacon Six mount.  This was apparently at times marketed in the USA under the name Tiger.  For a review of this converter, see the Lens Test section.  To go to the lens test section, click here.

Other manufacturers

Dr W G Heyde’s book “Das Praktisix Buch”, published in 1964, refers to an f/4.5 / 400mm Tele-Ennalyt.  In October 1972 Cambridge Camera Exchange was advertising this lens for US$132.50.  Sam Sherman of New Jersey tells me that “It focuses with a single helix and has reasonable sharpness for a 400MM lens.”

The SLR Yearbook 1970, which was published in the U.K., also reported that Dallmeyer lenses (which were made in England) were available in the Pentacon Six mount.
 

Sam Sherman says, “I think the Dallon lenses were Dallmeyer and the same lenses were also listed as Adon – if any of these were made at all.”                               Left: A picture of Sam Sherman taken in 1974 with the 1954 Exakta 66 SLR, which gave him good service. Here you can see the Meyer-Optik f/3.5 180mm Primotar lens mounted on the camera.

It is reasonably easy to adapt other lenses to fit the Pentacon Six, 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.

This data is based on published sources.  I do not have any of these lenses other than the Panagor 2x converter, which is tested in the Lens Tests section of this website.  To see the lens tests, click here.

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