Sonnar Formula Lenses: Any Focal Length, Any Make, Any Mount, Any Camera

A test shot with the Collapsible Nikkor that I opened up yesterday. This lens had severe build-up of oil on the surface behind the aperture, and a lot of deposits on the front element.

"This is what Success looks like" when cleaning a lens. The inner surface- coatings fully intact, and all clean.
Wide-Open.
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Sonnar Brian said:
A test shot with the Collapsible Nikkor that I opened up yesterday. This lens had severe build-up of oil on the surface behind the aperture, and a lot of deposits on the front element.

"This is what Success looks like" when cleaning a lens. The inner surface- coatings fully intact, and all clean.
Wide-Open.
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As rewarding as an exquisite and complex do-loop working perfectly first shot.
 
This fellow has one of these in this area. There is another. It is all electric. He got 35 miles with it (Astoria to Clatskanie), charged it and drove home. We get ~100" of rain a year, and this thing has no windows. He tells me the back seat gets some spray. He does not ride there, his wife does. The company is bankrupt. I wonder why? It was fun hearing him defend this thing. His wife made herself absent.

The good news is, yes there is good news, that black rack on the right can carry a golf bag.

 
Tim Read said:
I couldn't resist posting this cheesy postcard shot to bring a bit of Sydney sunshine to boojum's Astoria shotView attachment 4846202. CZJ Sonnar 50mm f.15 T.
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That opera house is one of the most beautiful uses of concrete I have ever seen if not the most beautiful. Resisted, controversial and now a beacon to the world. Gratefully folks with some vision overrode the local Babbits and got the damned thing built. And look what you now have!

And sunshine, too. I have read about sunshine. ;o)
 
- Do you yourself believe in ghosts? - one of the listeners asked the lecturer.
- Of course not, - the lecturer answered and slowly melted into thin air.

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Zorkiy 3m, film - ultrafine100
JUPITER-3 50MM F1.5
 
1941 CZJ Sonnar "T" 5cm F1.5, converted to Leica Mount. On the M9.
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I had an Uncle in the Marines in the Pacific, an Uncle on Destroyers in the Pacific, and Dad in B-29's.
Everytime the Docent at the Marine Museum tells me how many B-29 crewman were saved at Iwo Jima I answer back, "Yeah. But you are counting my Dad 11 times."
 
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Zeiss 135mm APO Sonnar
_MG_2209 by Brusby, on Flickr

p.s., these shots were taken more mid-day than optimal. We had gotten together early while the sun was high overhead with clear, cloudless skies but with an overall kind of high humidity haze enveloping everything we often get around here. As we were passing time waiting for the sun to dip lower in the sky and for the light to get nicer, I took these photos trying to familiarize myself with the new lens. I mention it because the slightly flat, kinda washed out look is the result of the harsh mid-day light and haze, not a characteristic of this lens.
 
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