This lens is as close as I’ve been to having a picture exactly as I want it, straight out of camera. (or any of the others apart from Exposure for that matter). The colors were so good, I didn’t have the heart to even touch the saturation or hue sliders in Lightroom. Performance stopped down really surprised me as usually if I like a lens wide open, I find it lacking when stopped down. (Although comma will stay by your side until at least f4) Colors get more punch and contrast and sharpness impoves by leaps and/or heaps.īy 5.6 to 8 you get these calm and smooth colors that stand out, they’re like your childhood memories – too good to have been real. Stop down to f2 and most of that is gone. You don’t get ideal sharpness and there is veiling, but that adds to the magic.
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Wide open – It works amazing for portraits, Skin appears dreamy and warm. The first pictures I took with it blew my mind and it continued to do so day after day, pic after pic. This lens renders images in a magical way. The sellers felt guilty for sending it to me, since they appeared broken, with the weird Contax/Kiev mount. So what really happend? Well, it turns out what was on the picture was the two Sonnars stacked on top each other in their small metal cases. That other lens? A Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 5cm f2 lens. There was another lens, which they sent me pictures of as well. To my surprise they reacted as if they expected me to be angry! We talked it through, I said I expected another lens, but I’d be happy with this one and asked if they wanted to change the price. It surely was a mistake! I called the seller and asked them if they sent the wrong thing.
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I was stumped, I didn’t know what to think or how to feel. I opened it up and to my surprise what I saw looked a lot like a Jupiter 8. The package – a lot smaller than it should’ve been. I didn’t think much of it and asked them to send it my way. They said it was 5 money! I barely contained my excitement, but after a reality check, I figured I’d be broken, maybe even have broken glass elements. I messaged them anyway and asked how much the lens on the fifth picture costs. That’s why it’s at that price, I thought. It looked very much like either a silver 135mm Jupiter or a Carl Zeiss 135mm f4 in Contax RF mount. The Contax 28mm f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Biogon T is a highly corrected autofocus rangefinder lens for the Contax G1 and G2 cameras. Price for the whole lot was like 100 money (US, Eur, whatever immerses you in this story) On the last picture you could see a large, elongated lens. Scrolling around ads, I saw a bunch of low quality pictures of broken down photography gear. I have a habbit of checking local second hand websites at least once a day. They bought a lens lot and apart from all the Revuenons and Domiplans a Flektogon shone brightly. Most people who love old lenses have one of these stories: they found a gem at a flea market.