Comments on: Review of Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm/3.5 Zebra

By: SangPhotographer

SangPhotographer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:58:22 +0000

Sorry..sorry.my bad..tqvm

By: Mattias

Mattias — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:49:47 +0000

What? It’s at the end of the article under the header “LINKS”.

By: SangPhotographer

SangPhotographer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:50:04 +0000

end? ned?
if you dont have a link dont just simply say next time :-)

By: Mattias

Mattias — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:25:23 +0000

Should be “end” ;)

By: SangPhotographer

SangPhotographer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:05:03 +0000

sorry, i don’t get u…

at the ned? what is that :(

By: Mattias

Mattias — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:08:18 +0000

Oh must have missed that. Now there is a link at the ned :)

By: SangPhotographer

SangPhotographer — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:20:43 +0000

Hello…Just wondering..u said that in the end , u put a link that can track lens age by serial number of aus jena. can i know what serial number is that?

mine is 8136846.

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:57:36 +0000

Canon produced several 135mm/3.5 lenses with essentially the same “sonnar” optical design as this Jena lens. These included M39 (“Leica”) screw mount lenses for rangefinder cameras, and the R, FL and earliest FD breech-lock mount lenses for Canon SLR cameras. Data and photos for these may be found at the Canon Museum web site.

In addition, there were T-mount preset-aperture lenses of this design, made by Tokina and maybe others and sold under many brand names (I have one that is badged as “Tele-Astranar”). I bought mine dirt cheap in the 1970’s and it’s great.

By: Iain Dawson

Iain Dawson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:40:37 +0000

I have in front of me a lens on which is inscribed “Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 3,5/135″. It does exist. I agree that its a bargain priced super-sharp lens.

By: Eugen Mezei

Eugen Mezei — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:04:48 +0000

Mr. Jenner: You are missinformed. Exactly the opposite is true. The CZJ Sonnar is the original design and the CZ-West (Oberkochen) is a recalculated formula, they intended to improve the Sonnar.

Carl Zeiss Jena never stopped labeling their lenses Sonnar (and Tessar, etc.) on markets where it wasn’t forbidden for them. Stating such a thing as CZJ Sonnar never existed just demonstrates your perspective is very limited. (What I’ve never seen can inpossibly exist, right?)