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Zeiss Sonnar 50/2 ltm in what looks like an Elmar housing
Wartime Leica-Sonnar 5cm f/2.0 T: Keep & repair or return?
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johannielscom
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Nothing wrong with that, looks any bit like a 'normal' Sonnar!
raid
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Not to side track your thread, this is to encourage you to keep your lens. It is very interesting to figure out its history.
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It holds up highlights very well in contrasty scenes, and it gives a yellowish (warm) cast. Some suspected that my lens could be a proto type lens and not a custom lens made by some person outside the factory. Leica had to use any material available during WWII.
Jacques M.
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It can be a Leica mount, but it could be a Fed's too...
I bought several years ago a Tessar (s/n 271317, so made in the 1910s...) mounted on a fake Leica/true Fed S with such a mount. And this curious camera works perfectly, in spite of its cyclopean look!
About Peter's lens, I share David's opinion. It seems there were only 57 5cm LTM Sonnars made before the war (!!) and 2250 just after the war (s/n in the 28xxxxx), certainly at the request of the Soviet authorities. A very poor chance to put a Sonnar on a Leica...
Jacques.
I bought several years ago a Tessar (s/n 271317, so made in the 1910s...) mounted on a fake Leica/true Fed S with such a mount. And this curious camera works perfectly, in spite of its cyclopean look!
About Peter's lens, I share David's opinion. It seems there were only 57 5cm LTM Sonnars made before the war (!!) and 2250 just after the war (s/n in the 28xxxxx), certainly at the request of the Soviet authorities. A very poor chance to put a Sonnar on a Leica...
Jacques.
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Did such lenses have a number to identify the modification source?
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