CZJ Tessar 2.8/50 on Sony A850

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

Old, beaten up zebra copy that had a dried up helicoid, I re-lubed it and at the same time converted it from Exakta to M42 using parts from another one with badly fungused glass.

Not the sharpest lens I own but more than sharp enough for casual use. Some of these were using a short extension tube.

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Oldhand · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 3:10 am Post subject:

Very nice results Ian.
I especially like the landscapes.
Where are they?
OH

DigiChromeEd · Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 3462 Location: Northern Ireland

Lovely Ian, especially #3.

stevemark · Joined: 29 Apr 2011 Posts: 3754 Location: Switzerland

Nice images from a historical lens which certainly has its limits - i remember using an early post-war CZJ Tessar 2.8/5cm for my "Tessar" article in the Sony Fotospiegel 1/2011 (pdf of the article here: http://artaphot.ch/images/Technik/Zeiss/Tessar/FS141_History_ZeissTessar_150dpi.pdf

I didn't like the 2.8/5cm Tessar that much, since it's bokeh was worse than that of the CZJ Biotar 2/5.8cm. Nevertheless i took all the pictures of lenses and cameras in the mentioned article with the Tessar 2.8/5cm and the CZJ Sonnar 3.5/135mm. The large landscape image was taken with 4.5/150mm large format Tessar lens.

Stephan

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

The landscapes are from the bottom of the road I live on in a small town in South Cumbria, which is in NW England, those are the Lake District hills in the distance.

Lloydy · Expire: 2022-01-01

Very good, the pano's are particularly good. I like the Tessar, it's just a nice WYSIWYG lens. Wink

Oldhand · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 11:10 am Post subject:

uddhava · Expire: 2021-06-21

Nice photos!
I like my Tessar lenses.
That is a very beautiful area that you live in.

Mos6502 · Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 961 Location: Austin

anktonio · Expire: 2017-02-22

Lovely shots, which demonstrate that the skill of the photographer is more important than lens used... you live near Hadrian's Wall? It should be a fascinating place. Like 1 small

blotafton · Joined: 08 Aug 2013 Posts: 1553 Location: Sweden

Golden hour, very nice!

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Nice series, #7 is amazing!!! Like 1 small

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

Hadrian's wall is 80 miles north, but the country is very similar here - hills and sheep.

#7 is a bit altered; in Adobe Camera RAW I put the highlights slider all the way to the bottom and the shadows slider all the way to the top, I think I turned up the clarity slider a tad too, but not sure. Lens was at f11 if memory serves me correctly.

Here's the shot as it came out of the camera:

Badr12 · Joined: 06 Apr 2014 Posts: 81

Nice shots Ian I like them all Like 1

And I like the lens too, I have the zebra and the later
This is (my son) with the zebra, I am not sure what was the f stop:

Carl Zeiss Tessar zebra 50mm f 2.8 WO by drbadr12, on Flickr
Please click for full resolution
Badr

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

That's a really nice candid portrait!

Even with the dozens (literally) of 50mm lenses I own the Tessars still have a place, and always will I think.