On 1/23/2013 1:45 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> I'll admit I went to some effort to try the old CZJ 50/2.8 Tessar on the
> 5D, but I was trying to find if a tessar design had different/better bokeh
> than the double Gauss of all newer 50 mm lenses. (BTW, can't be done
> without fairly serious surgery to the lens.)
>
> Wouldn't it have been just easier and probably quicker to just run a test
> roll of film through a legacy camera that had that mount and pay $5 for
> processing and a photoCD?
>
> Honestly, there are times when we over think these things.
It came on my dad's 50s Praktica, but I find that viewfinder useless and it
would require a CLA. It was my plan, if I
liked the results, to use the lens for more than testing. You know how nuts I
am about bad bokeh. :-) So, I thought it
best to test on the film/sensor I planned to use it on.
Once I found that surgery would be necessary. I did, in fact, go so far as to
get a nice legacy camera* for testing. But
the aperture stop down mechanism wouldn't let the lens screw all the way in! I
figured that was about time to give it up.
Later, I determined that it would work on the 60D, as it had on the 300D. At
least on the smaller sensor, it proved to
be a perfectly decent lens, but nothing special, neither especially good or
interestingly bad, and the bokeh wasn't any
better.
For now, and some time, for reasons that are unclear to me, it sits here on my
desk, exuding 50s Zeissishness. But why
is that PM-MTob sitting on top of it?
Confusing Mess Moose
* Fujica ST605N. Nice, clean, CLAed. Anybody want one?
>
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