Hi, My father just passed me a CARL ZEISS JENA zoom lens, 70-210/f4.5-5.6 which he bought new in 1984. It says "MADE IN JAPAN", and comes in Nikon AIS mount. Would appreciate any views, experience and comments on this lens. Is it in the same class as the ZEISS for Contax and Hassy? Regards, <<QUOTE>> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 09:34:52 +0100 From: Pim Stouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: nikon-digest V4 #198 Zeiss Jena lens [v04.n199/33] Message: 33 <<quote>> From: "kp foo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: car zeiss jena lens [v04.n198/12] Message: 12 I am interested in getting a carl zeiss jena 80mm f2.8 with the F-mount adaptor for Nikon cameras. Would appreciate your views and experience with this lens. Is it better than similar Nikkor MF lens? I intend to use it for outdoors protrait and landscape shots. <<unquote>> Years ago I bought a Pentacon Six system (6*6 SLR), made in the good old GDR. Its standard lens was a Zeiss Jena 2.8/80 (Biometar, I believe it is called) Since the camera isn't the most reliable, I didnt't use it for quite a while. Fortunately, recently I got hold of an adapter for PSix to Nikon. Quality was already very impressive on six-six negatives, but it is really astonishing on 35mm, no vignetting, practically no distortion, good contrast at low apertures and if you stop down, an enormous depth of filed. You can get the lens here in the Netherlands for about $100-150, but if you happen to have the luck to be travelling to eastern europe, you can get one for prices as low as $50. With this PSix-Nikon adapter you can also get quite good other german-built lenses for a bargain (I got a 4.0/300 for $175). Hope this helps, Pim AMS, NL ------------------------------
