[rollei_list] 2/85 Zeiss Sonnars
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,<rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:29:32 -0400
At 07:40 PM 4/9/2009, marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Marc,
>I would like to buy an Opton Sonnar 85, to mount on my Leica M. I
>would like to ask if there is a big difference in quality between the
>post War East German badged Carl Zeiss Jena 85 and the afore mentioned
>Zeiss version.
I am not certain exactly what you are
asking. The 2/85 Sonnar was in continuos
production at Carl Zeiss Jena and its successor
works (Pentacon, &c) from 1932 until roughly
1980. There is a good deal of variation in the
lens mounts -- the early ones were steel and
brass, later ones aluminium, but the lenses are optically quite similar.
A reworked 2/85 Sonnar was in production at
Oberkochen under the Zeiss-Opton and Carl Zeiss
brands from 1948 into the middle 1960's. This
lens is of a tweaked formula and the lens mounts
tend to be of higher quality than Postwar Jena
lenses, though they are functionally identical.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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