New Member Registered: November, 2013 Posts: 14 | | Review Date: April 15, 2021 | Recommended | Price: $25.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | excellent lens | | Cons: | none | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 9
Value: 9
Camera Used: k-5, k-x k-s1 sfx mz-5 z 20p z5
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this named "eagle eye" lens has an important advantage to other lenses:
at f 8-11 it has the same high edge sharpness as in the center !  Even modern lenses at a much more higher price hasn't.
the nice bokeh and the high contrast of the simple 4/3 construction
++ neutral color rendition
++ high sharpness
++/+ correction of CAs
++ bokeh
++ full glass-metal construction without plastic lenses !
 love it very much. highly recommended | |
New Member Registered: September, 2015 Posts: 2 | | Review Date: September 20, 2015 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | sharp (if stopped down a bit), nice colour and bokeh | | Cons: | none, just remember it's a little manual lens... | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 8
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 9
Value: 10
Camera Used: Pentax ist DS
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Jena Tessar borrowed from an old Werra I (DDR) camera, mounted in a spare K mount.
Is a 1961 1Q (first quality) standard lens, performances are what you expect from the best "aluminium" Tessars.
Sharp when stopped down a bit, nice colours and fantastic bokeh ( has 8 iris blades).
Lens hood is the original one, when reversed act as a total covering cap: very cool when mounted on a modern DSLR !
I'm very fond of this lens, because was mounted on an old Werra I camera (coming from East Germany) that my father used from 1961 on
to make B&W portraits in my family (my mother, sister and myself...), so when the Werra's Prestor RVS 750 shutter died, I decided to move
the valuable Tessar on a spare original Pentax K mount; I'm very happy of the results!
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