HU: Mega Rare Zeiss Biogon 3.5 in LTM???

[Gid]

Check this out.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MEGA-RARE-ZEISS-BIOGON-3-5cm-for-LEICA-LUFTWAFFE_W0QQitemZ7600926314QQcategoryZ15234QQrdZ 1QQcmdZViewItem

[Stephanie Brim]

Yup...that would be it. I wonder what his reserve is.

[kbg32]

Yup...that would be it. I wonder what his reserve is.

A liver and a spleen.

[John Shriver]

Closed, reserve not met, 507.89 UK Pounds. (Approximately US $882.05)

Very nice looking.

[Mike Kovacs]

Looks suspiciously Jupiter to me. Purple coating, large, black aperture selector.

[xayraa33]

for a WW 2 era lens , the aperture number progression should be the older european series ie: f 3.2 , f4.5 , f f6.3 etc.

[Traut]

The listing mentions T*. I thought that was a relatively new coating process?

[NoTx]

Er, I thought Zeiss Jena was only listed Post WW2?

Also, T coated, not T*.

[ZeissFan]

It had those two key words that push it into collectors' territory: "Leica" and "rare" ...

[OldNick]

It appears to be the Biogon that was copied to produce the Jupiter 12.

Jim N.

[dexdog]

for a WW 2 era lens , the aperture number progression should be the older european series ie: f 3.2 , f4.5 , f f6.3 etc.


I don't know whether this is a definitive criterion... I have a number of pre-war Zeiss Contax lenses that do not follow this progression, and also have a circa 1940 T-coated 35/2.8 Biogon that follows the "normal" progression of 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, etc.

dexdog (a.k.a. Mark)

[Mike Kovacs]

I don't think any of the Contax/LTM Zeiss optics used the old speed sequence like you see on the old Leitz Elmars.

[xayraa33]

so Zeiss had the "normal" f number progression way earlier than Leitz did.

[Mike Kovacs]

My oldest Contax lens is from 1936 and has the normal f/stop sequence. Actually, even my 1925 Voigtlander AVUS 9x12 plate camera also had the usual sequence.