Hi,
look at
http://members.aol.com/exaktaphile/tlens.html , there you will find this lens!
Jena 35mm F2.8 Makro-Flektogon at 250$. you can even find a strange zuiko 40/3,5
in exacta mount!
cheers
rainer
"C. Hertzler" schrieb:
> > From: Gary Schloss <schloss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ....
> > However, Exakta users had a far better alternative: the Carl Zeiss
> > Jena 35mm F2.8 Makro-Flektogon, which AFAIK is a true flat-field
> > macro, focuses down to 4 inches, and has a fully-automatic diaphragm.
> >.. I wonder how
> > widespread is its use in Europe, and is it affordable there. Maybe
> > one of our European fellow Zuiks, particularly those in Germany, could
> > provide some more info.
> >
>
> Being a German Zuik fellow, I do my best to answer this :-)
>
> My first SLR bought in 1972 was an Exakta with a very nice
> 1.9/50mm Schneider Xenon, later I added an also very nice 135mm
> aus Jena (East German Carl Zeiss) with 1 m close focus distance.
> But I think I newer saw that 35 mm Makro-Fektogon Gary is
> speaking about. In East Germany they might be more common.
> My last buy, before I switched to OM in 1976, was a 600mm F 5.6
> Ennalyt lens from Enna/Muenchen. Impressive F number and focal
> length, but not so impressive performance.
>
> > Also, are there any Exakta to OM mount adapters (to mount Exakta
> > lenses on an OM body)? IMHO, this should be possible
> >to accomplish,
>
> I am not aware of such an adapter. What I did with my 600mm
> lens: I removed the back of the lens with the Exakta mount, bought
> an OM reversing ring 49 mm and asked our university workshop to
> make a simple adapter from the lens back tread to 49 mm. Now I
> have a 600 tele lens which I can use on my OMs. But I rarely do it,
> because I am way to busy with all of my much nicer Zuiko lenses.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christoph
>
> (Christoph Hertzler
> Aachen, Germany)
>
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