let's talk about lenses

[back alley]

Seems your 5cm/2 is fairly unusual. Keesing notes that a E. German lens in "high quality chrome" (#3092302) was produced in 1947.

very cool!

would that make it more valuable for when i sell it?
joe

 

[furcafe]

Only if a Zeiss collector was looking, & they aren't as many of us as there are Leitz-heads, but you can always get lucky! 😛

very cool!

would that make it more valuable for when i sell it?
joe

 

[back alley]

maybe i should keep it.

it has a lot of cleaning marks and even though it takes a nice sharp photo i was thinking it wouldn't be worth much.
joe

 

[rover]

maybe i should keep it.

it has a lot of cleaning marks and even though it takes a nice sharp photo i was thinking it wouldn't be worth much.
joe

Yeah, those cleaning marks....definitely a sour apple in your barrel. 😉

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I hate looking at cleaning marks. You just see them! They are right there! On the Lens! But usually not in the photograph.

Just look at the photographs, you won't notice anything at all.

 

[VinceC]

I have two SLR-version Nikkor-S 50/1.4 lenses. One has bad cleaning marks, one doesn't. I once spent a month using the cleaning-marked lens everyday, thinking it was the other, and never seeing the difference in negatives.

 

[furcafe]

True. Same goes for a bit of edge separation & bits of dust, etc. in the elements. A great way to save money on lenses.

I have a couple lenses w/cleaning marks so numerous & deep that they've been effectively rendered flare-magnets, but they're the exception, not the rule. The scratches I need to take care are on my glasses, not my lenses!

I hate looking at cleaning marks. You just see them! They are right there! On the Lens! But usually not in the photograph.

Just look at the photographs, you won't notice anything at all.