| Latest Review Posted | aus JENA (Carl Zeiss) "S" (Sonnar) 135mm F3.5
I have a 135/f3.5 "S" lens. It renders beautifully and handles very well.
Most of the technical stuff has already been covered. But there is lot of heir-splitting here on markings, most of which is irrelevant - too many separate listings for the same lens. Some clarification:
"aus Jena" simply means "from Jena" - Jena being the city where the East German Zeiss factory was.
CZJ stands for Carl Zeiss Jena.
"S" on lenses stands for Sonnar. Because of copyright arguments/issues at times, the Jena factory could not alays use "Sonnar" even if it was the Sonnar lens optical formula. The same applies to B for Biotar or Biometar and T for Tessar for other lenses.
A small 1 inside a Q denotes export quality. However, there is no reason to assume that a lens without that mark will be of lower quality. |
