SMC Takumar 55/2 and Prakticar Carl Zeiss Jena 135/3.5

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

Long time no see! Hope everyone is well. I've been lazing outside today in the searing heat testing a couple of classic, affordable lenses:

Asahi SMC Takumar 55mm f/2 wide open @ f/2

It's a little soft wide open but easy to focus still at f/2.

Carl Zeiss Jena Prakticar 135mm f/3.5 (Sonnar in PB mount) wide open @ f/3.5

Really amazed at how good the Sonnar is. Better than my M42 version! Managed to clean the chocolate of her face for this one as well Very Happy

Both of these were shot on my Fujifilm X-T20.

Oldhand · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 11:08 pm Post subject:

Both lenses are excellent as you have shown.
The PB Sonnar is especially good.
Well done
Tom

Zamo · Joined: 08 Feb 2019 Posts: 168

I once compared two copies of the sonnar in m42 mount together with two copies of the Jena Prakticar (same lens). The four of them were indistinguishable, so I kept one Prakticar and sold the other three.