redhawk
Member
Henry Scherer interestingly claims that the post-war Carl Zeiss/Zeiss-Opton 85/2s are 'soft focus lenses.' My CZJ 85/2 is indeed sharper than my Opton 85 but not by a huge margin. Does anyone else find merit in this statement? It seems there was some literature when the late lenses were released calling them 'portrait' lenses and this seems to be the basis on which Henry rests his opinion.
http://www.zeisscamera.com/services_overhaul-cIIa-lenses.shtml
http://www.zeisscamera.com/services_overhaul-cIIa-lenses.shtml
johank
Established
CZ made indeed a soft filter for portrait photograping, since many thought that the CZ lenses where too sharp.