[rollei_list] Re: xenotar 2.8f (the family)
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:45:53 -0700
Marc and Eric,
Info on this camera was sent to us thru the RUG, last September. I have
that message with links to the photos of it. The camera was shown to
your associate, Chas. Barringer. The lens is of 1940-41 vintage.
I have seen and photographed this monster. We figure that it was used
by the military, as a night reconnaissance camera. It is definitely NOT
an aerial camera. It has marked focusing real close-up.
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
> At 01:49 PM 5/12/06 -0700, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
> >Les,
> >
> >That is a pip-squeak of a lens! Ya wanna see a big 'un? Peter Mattei
> >has a 200mm f1.5 Zeiss Sonnar in a 9x12cm Ernamann camera.
>
> Jerrry
>
> This is a bit troublesome. The camera in question is almost certainly an
> Ernoflex, which was advertised as being suitable for "fremdobjektiv"
> ("strange" -- that is, special -- lenses). The other possibility would be
> an Ermanox but that came with a 1.8/16.5cm Ernostar lens and was originally
> billed as "die lichtstärkste Camera der Welt!"
>
> But Carl Zeiss Jena never produced a 1.5/200 Sonnar and, if they had done
> so, the design only appeared in production in 1931, five years after the
> final Ernemann camera was made. A 1.4/20cm Biotar would be more likely
> but, even here, CZJ just never made taht lens in that focal length.
>
> I would like to see some photographs of this camera and learn the serial
> number.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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