Hi All, I used to have Flektogon 20/2.8, Flektogon 35/2.4, Pancolar 50/1.8 and Sonnar 135/3.5 All were quitenice but I used old Practika with them and light meter was not very good for slides. when I decided to change system for Pentax I sold everythink + exte, tubes and Practika VLC3 which had interchangeable top like LX!!! I have some problems with 20/2.8 since it was not justified. All in all I decided to buy into one system.Sometimes I think I could not sell it it is too late. Alek
310 g, takes a 58mm filter, and has 6 elements in 5 >groups (like the Super Takumar and Pentax SMC 85/1.8s): > >Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:39:53 +0100 From: Frantisek Vlcek ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: favorite non-Pentax K mount lens? That's >easy. It's the 1.8/80mm Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar. Superb lens. ( M42 only) >... The 1.8/80 CZJ Pancolar is a gaussian design, probably very similar or >same as Planar design. I do have this lens, and while the Multicoating on my >sample is not as good as modern SMC (needs a lens hood still <g>), in normal >light it is about as sharp as my SMC F 1.4/50 or just slightly less (at >relatively same apertures - 1.4=1.8; 5.6=5.6). It's good wide open, and >excellent even moderately stopped down. It should be as sharp or even better ><g> than all the portrait 80mm' Pentax made (xcept the new ones, A & FA >1.4/85 of course). AFAIK it's same or very similar design to Pentax SMC-K >1.8/85 (most those 1.8/80 lenses are of same, planar-derived design). Only >drawback my sample is prone to flare from strong light sources." > >From http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/archives/1999/msg01582.html: Hi Zuiko >amateurs, This week I bought a new (used) lens, and while it's not a Zuiko, >I just wanted to say what an amazing lens it seems to be. It's a >Carl-Zeiss-Jena (east) Pancolar 80mm 1:1,8 with M42 mount. Because of a >small dint at the front thread it costed only 200 DM (120 US dollar) instead >390 DM. First >slides taken with an aperture of 1:5,6 were great. Because there are no OM - >M42 adaptors, which goes to infinity without an auxiliary lens, this message >is somewhat off topic, but I think there aren't any M42 or Carl-Zeiss-Jena >(east) discussion lists around where I could share this experience. Regards, >Matthias. > >"Some of CZJ's lenses such as the "Pancolar" and "Flektagon" have their >roots in pre-WWII designs ("Biotar" and "Distagon") for which CZJ could use >the designs, but not the original trademark names due to court rulings about >intellectual property rights." -- John > >http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/spe2/hresol.htm: The Pancolor 80_1.8 lens >has a pupil diameter of 44.4 mm, which implies that there is no risk of >vignetting in any part of the spectrum. > >A user of 80_1.8 and other CZJ primes wrote: "Superb. I know everyone says >Pentax made the best M42 lenses but I disagree." > >From the Contax discussion list: "By the way I have bayonet mount practica >lenses, Flektogon 20/f2.8 which is a very good lens Mayer 28/F2.8 not a bad >lens at all Flektogon 35/f2.4 very very nice lens Pancolor 50/f1.8 very nice >Pancolor 80/f1.8 ditto! Sonnar 135/f3.5 extremly nice lens Sonnar 300/f4 I >do not use much, though good one and mayer 50/f1.8 CZJ 55/f2.8 MACRO lens >(good lens) I would say these lenses have almost the same colour redention, >which is very pleasing, and very small distortion. So I like them a lot, but >cameras (B200 and BX20) are different story all together. I wish Penatcon >servived and produced a better camera body! " > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ***************r-e-k-l-a-m-a************** Chcesz oszczędzić na kosztach obsługi bankowej ? mBIZNES - konto dla firm http://epieniadze.onet.pl/mbiznes
