Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yesterday, a Polish gentleman (friend of my uncle) gave me a couple of items he inherited from a relative. Among them is a lens in a screw mount of some sort, with the following marking: Carl Zeiss Jena Nr. 706197 Tessar 1:4.5 f=12 cm The lens is in remarkably good shape considering its age (I do not know how old it is but surely it IS old). The aperture is clickless, the focusing scale in metres only. The lens is very heavy despite the modest amount of glass due to its very solid brass construction. Anyone know anything about this lens? I suspect it is just a paperweight--there is no rangefinder coupling of any kind, so it is certainly useless on a Leica Mx. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog