Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, cosmetically is what I meant -- that is, it looks just like the 50/2.8 Tessar. On Dec 18, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote: > Yes Robert, but at least cosmetically the lens is quite different > from the Tessar 2,8/50 > > Saludos cordiales > Lluis > > > El 18/12/2008, a las 1:22, Robert Meier escribi?: > >> I know that lens! it's the 50/2.8 Tessar I had on my first SLR, >> the Praktica FX-3. Semi-automatic, which meant I had to reopen >> the diaphragm after each shot if I wanted to see through the lens >> at f2.8. It was a good, slow, but good, lens. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lluis Ripoll" >> <luisripoll@telefonica.net> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] ZEISS BIOTAR 58/2 TEST --> To Marc J. Small >> >> >> Hi Marc, >> >> It is not a secret, the PENTACON is the model F, S/N 186012 the lens >> is marked JENA S/N 5505038. Here you can see the camera: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8395836 >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8395835 >> >> as you can see it is very good condition and I've liked very much >> have >> the opportunity to have this camera and this lens, my next test will >> be in color. >> >> About your statement I should say that I've read it somewhere on >> Photo >> Net I think..., the Max Berek is a very good one too. >> >> I'll be delighted to share and discuss experiences with other users, >> yes, the lens is the same for Praktica, I've read on the I. Matanle >> book that Praktica was the successor brand name of the Pentacon. >> >> Thanks for looking and your interesting historicall comments >> >> Saludos cordiales >> Lluis >> >> >> El 17/12/2008, a las 5:43, Marc James Small escribi?: >> >>> At 07:55 PM 12/16/2008, Lluis Ripoll wrote: >>> >I've got a new camera too, a Pentacon with a Zeiss Jena Biotar >>> 58/2, >>> >this is a nice lens, probably not si smooth as some Leica >>> glasses but >>> >it has a nice rendition and transition from focus to non focus >>> areas, >>> >as Dr.. Marc J. Small says "he never founded a bad Zeiss lens", >>> I was >>> >quite influenced to try this once I've read his book, it is a cheap >>> >and amazing camera. >>> >>> Hmm. Luis, could you be so kind as to send the model number of >>> the Pentacon camera and its serial number, together with that of >>> the lens? Private e-mail, if you prefer. I will share this with >>> others but only in sanitized format with your name not >>> included. There is a very active Zeiss Ikon Collectors' Group >>> and a Praktica Users' Group where such cameras and lenses are >>> actively discussed. >>> >>> All of the Praktica breed of cameras are grand picture-takers >>> albeit some are, I admit, a bit quirky. And the 2/5.8cm Biotar, >>> later the 2/58mm Biotar, is a most fascinating lens, having been >>> calculated by the mavens of Jena when they were first >>> recognizing the impact that coating would have on optical >>> performance. It first was designed in 1939, incidentally, as >>> part of a project from the odd-ball Noble owners of KW, and this >>> also resulted in the M42 mount. The lens survives in production >>> today in a Post-Soviet form used on Zenit SLR's, made by the KMZ >>> works nearby to Moscow. A continuous production for a >>> photographic lens for almost seventy years mst set some sort of >>> a record. >>> >>> I would retract a flat statement that "I never met a Zeiss lens >>> I didn't like", as I have met some which I found, well, not of >>> the first water. Allow me to amend this statement to one which >>> Max Berek would applaud, that I have never met a Zeiss lens not >>> fully capable of great use. Almost all are cutting edge but, >>> then, some of them pushed too hard, though they are still >>> capable opticks. >>> >>> Marc >>> >>> >>> msmall@aya.yale.edu >>> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information