Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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