And a lot of fake LTM Zeiss lenses too...
They did produces some Sonnars in LTM in-house. They stopped somewhere towards the end of World War 2 (1944 IIRC) . There was a sharp increase in custom Contax-to-LTM conversions after VE-day.
Is this a Jena Sonnar lens? Or one of the lenses made with transplanted Zeiss glass in the Soviet Union?
It's a genuine Zeiss Sonnar 50 1.5 T coated lens, the serial dates it to 1941, in a very Leitz-looking mount - but the finish of the mount is slightly different from the rest of the lens. The camera dates to 1938. I bought them in Midland.
Coated from 1941? How interesting. Nice item! Do you think it is possible that the lens was remounted at a later date in a Leitz mount and coated at that time?
It's not a Planar, not even a Zeiss, but the LTM Canon 50/1.5 is a Sonnar design AFAIK. I had one for a while. It exhibited the usual Sonnar foibles. I eventually replaced it with an LTM Canon 50/1.4, AKA the "Japanese Summilux."Is it possible to get a 50mm Zeiss Planar to fit onto a Barnack camera?
mounted on the camera is a Carl Zeiss Jena 3.5cm Planar lens.
They did produces some Sonnars in LTM in-house. They stopped somewhere towards the end of World War 2 (1944 IIRC) . There was a sharp increase in custom Contax-to-LTM conversions after VE-day.
That sounds like something quite unique. Anyone who services old lenses should be able to clean it up, and it would probably be worth doing. It's definitely something a collector would want, also, and is possibly worth more than the camera.
I wonder if the lens came from another camera, and was put in a mount??
I just googled <3.5cm planar> and the first thing that came up was https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254202035823 . Did it out of interest: it's not something I know anything about.
Definitely. It kinda looks like it was hacked into an Elmar 35. But I don't know what camera that would have been.
A microscope lens would likely not give coverage for 35mm.
the focus is frozen near infinity
I don't know how these crazy prices are established. I paid 30 dollars for a box that had a 1932 Leica II model D with this lens. The black enamel is mostly intact, serviced in 1975, everything works fine on the camera s/n camera 79257. Fun to play with I like to think about who has used it over the decades. I bought the box because it had a Mamiya 6 c 1946, didn't know what I had.
Looking at it closer, it doesn't look like an Elmar 35 - it looks like a newer mount. Hard to tell. You can put a bit of decent oil on a toothpick and run it around the part of the lens that moves the rangefinder cam - that might seep into the groove of the helicoid and free it up.
I think that's definitely a bench-made thing.
The serial number of the lens says 1912?
Kevin's Cameras Hong Kong, this fellow asks ridiculous prices
He does mention that the lens on Ebay is a re-purposed cinema camera lens. I suspect that after the WWI and hyperinflation in Germany there were creative assemblages of things
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