If your in Europe and don't want the expense of shipping to the US , then send them to me , I'll be happy to take them off your hand's !
If your in Europe and don't want the expense of shipping to the US , then send them to me , I'll be happy to take them off your hand's !Hear me now and believe me later: Carl Zeiss Jena lenses are optically equivalent to a Coke bottle. Everyone should send them to me for proper disposal.
Put simply, a 1970s Fiat is horribly unreliable, prone to rust, and expensive to operate. By comparison, a 1970s Mercedes is very reliable, built like a tank, and is still a suitable road car today.My knowledge of cars is not that deep sorry, so don't get the analogy. Anyway, I particularly fond on the Rollei sl35e because its a pleasure to use and the Zeiss QBM are gorgeous. Unfortunately their electronics and dependability are not as gorgeous. I have something like 3 of the dont work or are unreliable but have one that I use regularly and has not as yet failed.
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Marcelo
Yes, there are some 'keepers' out there. Do you still have the lens? Which camera body did you use?Not quite...
I got a west-german lens test from 1985 of 2.8 180mm lenses where the Zeiss-East model got higher resolution than its Zeiss-East counterpart, and much lesser distorsion. Even its centering was better (so much about workmanship).
But as others said, by the number of lenses we could do a many pages discussion. And who takes photographs of test-charts??
The Zeiss-West version had a shorter minimum focusing distance, which for instance to many photographers would be very important too.
That was in the late 2000s. In the 1980s the top end CZ lenses in Rollei mount and the Rollei cameras were all made in Germany. In the 1980s the Japanese lenses were "Rolleinar" and not of CZ design.Indeed: that's when Carl Zeiss AG began having their lenses made in Japan and later in Thailand, and cameras made in Singapore...
I hope not but we can surely have 47 pages on which of the two cars has the worse colour schemeI was waiting for that, now we can have 47 pages of debate on East German vs West German Zeiss.
There is nothing stopping you from buying Nikon 35mm bodies and buying Carl Zeiss ZF lenses.
Zeiss Lenses by Narsuitus, on Flickr
Sony Zeiss lens are designed by Zeiss but made by several production plants in Japan, maybe other countries as well supervised by Zeiss staff. Does Zeiss still makes lens?
As long as a production facility can build a lens to the required specifications, then where/by whom it is built is academic. The Otus range are also made in Japan, and they are easily amongst the finest 35mm optics ever. A lens doesn't somehow become magical because it was assembled by German fingers...
The high price of manufactured goods is often dictated by where it is assembled; Germany being one of the most expensive. Moving production to Asia doesnt get the customer much, but it does allow Zeiss to get higher margins. Same price for the consumer, a lot more profit for Zeiss.
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