135mm lens club

**ivanvernon** · 08-28-2021, 08:43 AM - **3 Likes**

Flowers with K-1 and the Zeiss 135mm Sonnar f 2.0. This lens is like the 77mm Ltd; just point at something and snap and you get a good photo, lots of keepers.

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**ivanvernon** · 08-28-2021, 08:45 AM - **5 Likes**

More with the Zeiss 135mm Sonnar f 2.0.

aaacb · 08-28-2021, 10:02 AM - **10 Likes**

m 135/3.5 and k1ii

scratchpaddy · 08-28-2021, 12:42 PM - **7 Likes**

Originally posted by ivanvernon

Flowers with K-1 and the Zeiss 135mm Sonnar f 2.0. This lens is like the 77mm Ltd; just point at something and snap and you get a good photo, lots of keepers.

Looks like a keeper! I really enjoy my much older f/3.5 Sonnar, although it's not all all in the same league as your lens. At least the price reflects this.

Originally posted by aaacb

m 135/3.5 and k1ii

Beautiful contrast between rough and smooth textures here. Really well framed.

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SMC Takumar 135/2.5 out at the park this morning.

CedrusMacro · 09-20-2021, 02:50 PM - **5 Likes**

Possibly the best portrait shot I've achieved with the Tamron Twin Tele 135 preset as well as some others from a recent outing.

aaacb · 09-30-2021, 10:46 AM - **3 Likes**

probably my most used focal length at the moment.
k1ii and bayonet tak 135/2.5

scratchpaddy · 10-02-2021, 07:10 PM - **8 Likes**

Coming at the topic from an odd angle here. I got a Kollmorgen Snaplite 5.25in, a movie theater projection lens from the 1950's or '60's, manufactured in Northampton, Massachusetts. My copy came from a retired drive-in movie theater. Once you come up with your own camera mount and focus mechanism, it's a pretty cheap 135mm f/2 lens.

Most any 135mm lens actually made for photography in the past half century will be technically superior, but projector lenses are an affordable way to experience otherwise obsolete lens formulas.

aaacb · 10-10-2021, 11:53 AM - **2 Likes**

M 135/3.5

aaacb · 10-10-2021, 11:53 AM - **2 Likes**

K 135/2.5

scratchpaddy · 12-19-2021, 05:19 PM - **8 Likes**

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135mm f/3.5, the "zebra" version from the '60's.

edom31 · 01-09-2022, 09:33 PM - **1 Like**

K 135/2.5

edom31 · 01-12-2022, 09:30 AM - **2 Likes**

K 135/2.5

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Super-Takumar 135mm 2.5 K-50 (5-element)

**Rondec** · 02-18-2022, 05:09 AM - **8 Likes**

Elise (FA 135mm f2.8)

scratchpaddy · 02-26-2022, 03:09 PM - **3 Likes**

I took the Kollmorgen Snaplite 5.25in f/2 out again this morning. I forgot to mention in my last post about it, it's a Petzval type: just a pair of achromatic doublets. It's bulky but very light, since there's not much glass. It's the one on the left, in this brochure from 1949.

**rgknief60** · 03-12-2022, 09:24 PM - **1 Like**

Here's a sweet subject for you. "f1.7" on K3III. Does anyone know why my bodies record f1.7 when the lens only opens to f1.8?

Chocolate Bokeh by Roger Knief

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