[rollei_list] Re: Zeiss Jena 5cm 1.5 Opton
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:50:41 -0400
At 03:19 PM 9/7/2009, Raid Amin wrote:
>T: 1137562
>no T: 1127034
Thanks, Raid. 1127034 was part of a batch of
4,000 such lenses made around 1954, or so say the
factory records, though bear in mind that the
Oberkochen factory records are rather dicey until
the late 1950's. (It is "strange, but true" as
Ripley used to tell us, before he got into the
business of setting up Odditariums, that the
Communist CZJ records of that time are far more
reliable than are the Capitalist Oberkochen
ones.) 1137562 comes from a batch of 1,000 such
lenses, again apparently dating from 1954.
Both of these are late lenses to bear the
Zeiss-Opton brand; we have Carl Zeiss lenses
with serial numbers below 1,000,000 on
record. Zeiss has always made its lenses in
batches, though, so parallel production lines
would often have serial number runs off by some
numbers one way or the other, which is why both
Thiele, who publishes the factory records, and
Charlie Barringer, who maintains the Zeiss Lens List, are both vital.
I have copied this missive to Charlie in hopes
that he can shed some light on why the earlier
lens lacks the red T. I can be very boneheaded
and am probably missing an obvious explanation, I fear!
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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