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Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/3.5 1Q (EXA) & NEX5
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:56 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:56 am
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A really neat lens for the NEX. I don't understand - but am very grateful to - why Orio sold it, but he certainly must have had his reasons Smile
Its serial (3692001) can be traced back to a batch of 2000 lenses released on May 17 1952, of which this lens was the first one. The presence of the "1Q" and a red T (or something that resembles it...) on the front indicates that the lens was produced for export, which is also indicated by the distance scale (in feet).
The dedicated ARG-file that I use for this lens: czjtessar50exa.txt

Code:
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-XMP:Lens=Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/3.5 (EXA)
-XMP:SerialNumber=3692001
-EXIF:MaxApertureValue=3.5
-EXIF:FocalLength=50
-EXIF:FocalLengthIn35mmFormat=50
-EXIF:FNumber=3.5


You can take a look at the CZJ Tessar gallery on my website, or read my blog, or look at the photos here:







I will soon post some examples where I used this lens to make nocturnal panoramas.


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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:26 pm
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This is one of the rarest and smallest Tessar 5cm, congrats!


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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:27 pm
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Nice Tessar with "flying kite".
Nicely presented!

Klaus


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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:06 pm
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I've got one of these little guys as well in the same mount and also with a red 'T' but with a metric distance scale. S/n is 3575216.

A wee tip for anyone that has one is that the lid from the current Fuji film cans makes a good push-in front lens cap... Wink


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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:04 pm
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bob955i wrote:
I've got one of these little guys as well in the same mount and also with a red 'T' but with a metric distance scale. S/n is 3575216.

A wee tip for anyone that has one is that the lid from the current Fuji film cans makes a good push-in front lens cap... Wink


Thanks for tip!
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