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[OM] Re: Carl Zeiss Jena lenses

Subject: [OM] Re: Carl Zeiss Jena lenses
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:11:53 -0800
Walt Wayman wrote:

>I have one of these, a 28/2.8.  There is no indication on it that gives a clue 
>as to where it was made, whether Japan or East Germany.  Around the front 
>element, it reads "CARL ZEISS JENA  F=28mm  1:2.8  MC," and then that 
>character, the O with a diagonal line through it that I don't know the ASCII 
>code for, that indicates the filter size is 49mm.  Around the lens barrel, 
>between the aperture ring and the focus ring, along with the DOF scale, it 
>says "VEB CARL ZEISS JENA."  It came from France via booBay as a birthday 
>present from my good lady wife four or five years ago.
>
That's an E. German lens, essentially unrelated in optical pedigree to 
the Japanese zooms.

Moose



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