tessar 2.8/50 carl zeiss jena ddr

[rockycarter]

today my son and I took a trip to the port city. while down there I walked into a shop he wanted to visit. I saw this camera with 2 lens m42 mounts for sale. the shop owner told me if I wanted the lens. I had to purchase the camera and the flash and bag. so I did here is a couples images of what I purchased. the camera is a 35 mm film camera in excellent shape. I don't know much about it but it looks very good.

[jamaeolus]

I bought a praktica almost identical to try a domiplan (disappointment!) but the camera is very robust. Heavy East German engineering. I have the Tessar in 50mm 2.8 zebra, and a silver 70mm in exakta mount. They take very nice photos great bokeh.. but not very fast. Not sure about the 135mm, Praktica was a pentacon company and they owned at that time IIRC zeiss jena and also meyer. So some pentacon praktica are near copies of meyer or of zeiss jena designs.