Zeiss Contax I 50cm Fernobjektiv 500mm Exceptionally Rare Complete Direct Mount

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ZEISS CONTAX I 50CM FERNOBJEKTIV 500mm EXCEPTIONALLY RARE COMPLETE DIRECT MOUNT on Ebay

This really is a super rare lens from 1934, but impossibly difficult to shoot using a direct vision viewfinder!

 

[Larry Cloetta]

That’s wild.

 

[Cascadilla]

This lens/viewfinder combo is one of the best arguments for an SLR that I have ever seen.

 

[David Murphy]

What an amazing item. Just when one thinks they've heard of everything in the Contax Universe something like this pops up.

I suppose that dial on the finder compensates for parallax? I have little doubt that with care this can be an effective lens to actually use, although clearly pretty much a collectible today. It would be interesting to see this mounted on a digital Leica M mount camera with an adapter. (That could make framing easier too).

 

[wes loder]

I have the post-war version in Panflex mount. Sharp lens and, believe-it-or-not, usable on my digital Nikon with a BR-1 ring.

 

[Pfreddee]

Funny... I would have thought they would be asking more for it....

With best regards,

Pfreddee(Stephen)

 

[Elmar Lang]

I have the Fernobjektiv of early, DDR manufacture and it really is a very fine lens, especially with BW film.

I'd like to find one that could be mounted on my Flektoskop (but honestly, I don't know the difference between those sadaptable to the Flektoskop or the Flektometer).

The lens offered on ebay is a beautiful, cased complete outfit, including the yellow filter.

The price is attractive, if compared to the past. In any case, this is a true rarity.

 

[xatnoc]

I have two of these beast: one with viewer and filter in a leather case, identical to the one sold recently, the other one as a single lens with no accessories.