I don't know if you are interested in all Zeiss lenses, both Oberkochen and Jena, but I have a Carl Zeiss Jena MC Flektogon 20mm f/ 2.8 with a serial number of 10013230.
Carsten W On 9 Oct 2007, at 18:41, Robert Marvin wrote:
Thank you Marc. The two multi-coated lenses are about 10 years older than I imagined. No matter--they're excellent lenses, as is the earlier Sonnar.Bob Marvin On Monday, October 8, 2007, at 11:32 PM, MJS wrote:I lack the time at the moment to look up the=20 details but that four-digit number resulted from=20 a "shaving" of numbers conducted by CZJ around=20 1976 when the s/n went into eight digits: they=20 just chopped off the first four digits. I=20 suspect that 5516 is actually "10,075,616" and=20 that it was part of a lot of 5,000 lenses=20 completed on 20 SEP 1976. This shaving process=20 was not uniformly applied as witness the number on the Flektogon. The Flektogon is part of a batch of 3,000 such=20 lenses completed on 3 APR 1978. The Sonnar is=20 part of a batch of 2,000 such lenses completed on 16 JUL 1969.--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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