1937 Zeiss Tessar 5cm f2.8 Uncoated on Sony A7 - some snaps

[eggboy]

A heavy chromed-brass prewar Exakta-mount lens. Beautifully finished, with nice glass.

Sometime ago I had carefully removed the lens blocks and fully cleaned out the near-solid organic (some say whale-oil based...) grease and re-greased with a light helical grease from Micro-Tools...so the focus action is very light, easy and smooth.

Most shots at or near f2.8 except where noted. No cropping...they were imported into Lightroom and auto-toned. Most of the shots were in fairly high contrast settings, so you can see how nicely these low contrast lenses preserve detail in the shadows.

I will work on making my copyright thingie less visible...it is annoying me but it's late and I am too lazy to redo!

#1 - here is the lens in question. I had a nice Series V lens hood on whilst shooting...really necessary for uncoated lenses.


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#4


#5 - A torture test for an uncoated lens for sure!


#6 - A torture test for an uncoated lens for sure!


#7 - uncoated lenses render skin tones oddly


#8 - uncoated lenses render skin tones oddly


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#10 - uncoated lenses render skin tones oddly


#11 - shot at f5.6 at or near the 1 meter minimum focusing distance


#12 - shot at f2.8 at or near the 1 meter minimum focusing distance


#13 - shot at f5.6


#14 - shot at f5.6


#15 - shot at f5.6

[BeardsAreBest]

Wow!!
Well done with this old gem!
Wonderful pics!

Beard.

[kds315*]

Yep, cannot agree more!

[Lloydy]

Excellent pictures, the lens is obviously very good.