Carl Zeis Jenazoom Super 70-210 F4-5.6

[OM1234]

I picked up a Carl Zeis Jenazoom Super 70-210 F4-5.6 (OM Fitment) in new condition some years ago but never got around to using it. This is a Series 2 lens with the blue ring on the lens barrel.

Has anyone had any good results from this Japenese lens and is it any better than the Zuiko offerings from the same period.

 

[icebear]

I picked up a Carl Zeiss Jena zoom Super 70-210 F4-5.6 (OM Fitment)...

Has anyone had any good results from this Japenese lens and is it any better than the Zuiko offerings from the same period.

Hi there,

Carl Zeiss Jena indicates a German lens manufacturer, not Japanese. The city of Jena was in the former East German part during the communist area (until late 1989).
No experience with this type or any OM for that matter....

 

[OM1234]

Carl Zeis Jenazoom Super 70-210 F4-5.6

The Jenazoom is a Japanese lens manufactured under licence from Carl Zeis by Sigma. It even says that on the lens barrel.

 

[f16sunshine]

It's a Sigma lens as you know.
Itested one many years ago when I was running ecotours in the san juans and wanted some reach.
It was not that good or bad really.
My subjects were generally wildlife or passengers with wildlife in tge background so, it's not fair for me to comment on distortion. Sharpness was not super.
The lens was too dark and slow to really be affective.
I prefer a two ring zoom. Bought an Angeniuex 70-210 f3.4 constant with two rings. I still own that one.

 

[sevo]

The Jenazoom is a Japanese lens manufactured under licence from Carl Zeis by Sigma. It even says that on the lens barrel.

I'd consider that market speak. It was the regular re-brandable Sigma of the day, also sold as Vivitar, Hanimex, Soligor, Revuenon and many other brands. No design by CZJ, who at that time were busy growing their digital electronics branch and if any tried to get out of camera optics. IIRC they only made a vague attempt to market two zooms of their own design and production (which weren't too well received), before Pentacon turned to re-branding Japanese lenses.

 

[veraikon]

there are imho only two original zoom lenses from VEB Carl Zeiss Jena (former GDR) for the Praktica SLR system.
A Vario-Pancolar 2.7-3.5 / 35-70mm and a Vario-Sonnar 4.0 / 70-200mm (M42) [rsp. labeled as Prakticar instead of Pancolar [=Planar] or Sonnar for Praktica B ).

They were build in the late eighties in a very low number (about 200-500 lenses).

For the market in western countries they relabeled Sigma and Samyang zooms.