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are you still looking for wartime sonnars in LTM to test ?
Are these beauties all war time Sonnar in LTM? This is quite a collection. Are they all genuine Zeiss made?
are you still looking for wartime sonnars in LTM to test ?
supposedly they are, after scrutiny by Charles B.
So you have from left to right
2726485 1,5 T on contax mount (typical mixed metal mount and body found on a Gxxxxx III)
2936226 2 T on contax mount (badly damaged came on a french contax II, should be from the end of the war, mixed metal)
2724947 1,5 T LTM (full heavy metal mount, nice glass, perfectly working)
2859321 1,5T LTM (mixed metal, badly damaged mount, but nice glass, sadly to be reconstructed)
2859393 1,5T LTM (came on a IIIc red curtain, american officer provenance, very nice glass, ugly grey metal mount, needs some care)
2789989 1,5T LTM (strange artisanal alloy mount, not Zeiss, not Jup3, Could have been done by a parrallel workshop starting from a contax mount ... I recently came across a 85/2 of the same serial batch with the same bizarre engravings... to be studied)...
not on the picture are other rare sonnars...
2687429 2T LTM ... a sonnar head on an early industar 26 mount
2202696 2T contax... a very early coated lens (1937)
and
658553 Opton 85/2 TF coating (super rare non standard coating, no one knows what it means...)
there is an angenieux 50mm 1,5 on ebay... but it's exacta mount
This sounds very much like a description of the CZJ I contributed to this test (Raid's #20, I think?). Stephan, you are a member of the ZICG?supposedly they are, after scrutiny by Charles B.
2789989 1,5T LTM (strange artisanal alloy mount, not Zeiss, not Jup3, Could have been done by a parrallel workshop starting from a contax mount ... I recently came across a 85/2 of the same serial batch with the same bizarre engravings... to be studied)...
This sounds very much like a description of the CZJ I contributed to this test (Raid's #20, I think?). Stephan, you are a member of the ZICG?