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Carl Zeiss enlarger lens, or macro, or what ?

Hilo

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Does anyone know this lens? It is M39, has 11 blades and no focus ring. The chrome ring up front comes off easily . . .

I will try to print with it, but would love to know more about it

Thanks !!
 

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It's a Sonnar lens for a Contax or Leica that has been remounted into an enlarger or bellow Mount. If you can find a Jupiter 3 for the Kiev you can remount it into the correct Barrel.
 
Thanks MDR

I assume this lens normally has clickstops? Now it doesn't.

Anyway, I am curious what results I get printing with it. I tried with a Focomat 1C (and a negative), but sofar I couldn't get it to work. No focus.

But with a Leitz Valoy II it worked well. I think the auto-focus of the Focomat makes it more difficult . . .
 
The Focomat will have to be adjusted for the lens for autofocus but you can deal with it manually. Just turn the helical the lens is mounted on & you should be OK.
Don't disturb the flat spring on the side of the helical.
 
John, thanks.

Yes I did that but it was too far off. This was using the spacer ring we use for the Focotars. Without it the lens went too far inside the helical. I also did not have much time, so I will try again tomorrow.

The Valoy II is a good alternative though, I modified it to print 20X24 and gave it a larger baseboard. It will show me if this Zeiss lens is any good for enlarging . .
 
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