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Is it possible to find out when this Tessar was made?
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:32 pm    Post subject: Is it possible to find out when this Tessar was made? Reply with quote
Is it possible to find out when this Tessar was made?

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Going by the numbers in this thread:

http://forum.mflenses.com/carl-zeiss-jena-lenses-issue-date-by-serial-number-t6865.html

puts it in the mid- to late-1950s.


PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It is from a batch of 5000 lenses, end SN is 4720500, completed in 10/1955.
Your lens was most likely made in 1955.
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