Gid
Well-known
Stephanie Brim
Mental Experimental.
Yup...that would be it. I wonder what his reserve is.
kbg32
neo-romanticist
Stephanie Brim said:
A liver and a spleen.
John Shriver
Well-known
Closed, reserve not met, 507.89 UK Pounds. (Approximately US $882.05)
Very nice looking.
Very nice looking.
Mike Kovacs
Contax Connaisseur
Looks suspiciously Jupiter to me. Purple coating, large, black aperture selector.
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
for a WW 2 era lens , the aperture number progression should be the older european series ie: f 3.2 , f4.5 , f f6.3 etc.
Traut
Well-known
The listing mentions T*. I thought that was a relatively new coating process?
N
NoTx
Guest
Er, I thought Zeiss Jena was only listed Post WW2?
Also, T coated, not T*.
Also, T coated, not T*.
ZeissFan
Veteran
It had those two key words that push it into collectors' territory: "Leica" and "rare" ...
OldNick
Well-known
It appears to be the Biogon that was copied to produce the Jupiter 12.
Jim N.
Jim N.
dexdog
Veteran
xayraa33 said:
I don't know whether this is a definitive criterion... I have a number of pre-war Zeiss Contax lenses that do not follow this progression, and also have a circa 1940 T-coated 35/2.8 Biogon that follows the "normal" progression of 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, etc.
dexdog (a.k.a. Mark)
Mike Kovacs
Contax Connaisseur
I don't think any of the Contax/LTM Zeiss optics used the old speed sequence like you see on the old Leitz Elmars.
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
so Zeiss had the "normal" f number progression way earlier than Leitz did.
Mike Kovacs
Contax Connaisseur
My oldest Contax lens is from 1936 and has the normal f/stop sequence. Actually, even my 1925 Voigtlander AVUS 9x12 plate camera also had the usual sequence.