Hi!
Although I was quite excited about this buy some time ago, it is big, it
is heavy and it requires manual focusing while my eyes are getting
progressively weak :-(.
So, offering for sale - Carl Zeiss Jena MC Flektogon 50/4 with Tilt
Adapter. Few points about this combo:
1. You get lens front cap, K-mount rear cap and Pentacon-6 (I recon it
is originally Pentacon 6 lens) rear cap. I don't seem to find a front
cap for the adapter as the lens came attached to it.
2. The piece of material that has the tilt angles on it is falling off.
If you have proper glue you can easily glue it in place. Obviously it
does not have any effect on the operations. By the way adapter goes up
to 8 deg of tilt. You can rotate the tilted lens with clicks every 15
deg of rotation.
3. The lens aperture (which as I was told is a weak part of these
lenses) in perfect order - snappy without any signs of any trouble
whatsoever.
4. The lens is free of dust except the space immediately after the front
element. There is certain amount of dust that as I understand is the
blackening coating of the inner side of the lens barrel. It does seem
moderate and I did not find any issues with it.
5. Optically this lens is very good with surprising micro contrast and
very pleasant rendering but given its huge front element you wouldn't
want to shoot with light sources in front of you. Few times I noticed
that the center part of the frame was brighter than the rest which I
attribute to the reflections off the camera sensor.
6. Asking USD 300 plus shipping. I will absorb PayPal fees (about 5%). I
can ship either EMS (which I'd prefer for its insurance and speed) or
regular air mail. The latter is like USD 15 or even less but without
tracking and insurance. Given rather heavy item, I expect EMS to cost
order of USD 40.
Please contact me off list if you're interested and require more
information/shots about/of/by this lens.
Thanks.
Boris
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