Cleaned, Lubricated & Adjusted. Ready for immediate use Fits Contax I, II, III, IIa & IIIa This is a very early version of the 135mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar developed for the Contax I rangefinder cameras. The lens was (and is) well known and well respected. Built of high quality brass and finished in a black…
Will also fit the later Contax IIa & IIIa cameras This is the Carl Zeiss 13,5cm (135mm) Sonnar lens which was developed for the Contax rangefinder camera. Built of high quality chrome plated brass, it is suitable for portraits & landscapes and it was a very popular Zeiss lens in its era. Nearly all the…
Screw mount lens for Leitz various Leica II & III models and Micro 4 3 cameras. Leica camera not included! This is an early 3.5 50mm Elmar lens. Its serial number (359424) indicates it was produced in Germany in 1937 when the world looked very different that it does today. The elmar is an adventurous,…
Camera not included! The 2.0 85mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar is a popular lens and is recognized around the world as a master piece of design. Originally designed for the Contax rangefinder cameras, it was always an expensive and highly coveted item. It was especially popular with photojournalists during WWII because it was fast and it…
Fits Contax I, II & III Camera NOT included The 35mm Zeiss Biogon developed for the Contax rangefinder cameras is well known lens and is recognized as a master piece of design. When it was introduced it was the very best 35mm lens available. Even today the 35mm Biogon is well respected. What artists and…
Leica camera not included! This is a COATED example of the famous Summar lens designed and produced for the prewar Leica screw mount cameras. The Summar was of course Leitz’s first “super speed” lens and it was the top of the line lens for the prewar Leica. (Followed by the f2.5 50mm Hector and the…
Fits Contax I, II, III, IIa & IIIa Camera not included! The 135mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar which was developed for the Contax rangefinder cameras is well known and well respected. Built of high quality chrome plated brass, it is suitable for portraits & landscapes and it was a very popular Zeiss lens in its era….
A superb Orestegor design lens The Meyer-Optik lenses are true cult classics and are well loved by artists and fine art photographers. These lenses are famous for their fine artistic rendering, delicate tonality, beautiful color and superb bokeh. In fact many fans lovingly refer to them as the “Bokeh monsters”. This particular lens is considered…
Leica camera not included! This is an early 3.5 50mm Elmar lens. Its serial number (293315) indicates it was produced in Germany in 1934. The elmar is an adventurous, go anywhere do anything lens and it s the correct standard lens for most Leica cameras produced before and during WWII. Even if you own faster,…
A truly beautiful lens for Olympus OM system SLRs. Camera NOT included. This is the desirable f2.0 50mm macro lens produced by Olympus for their OM series of slr cameras. It’s a sharp, fast lens with superb rendition and one of the finest lenses that Olympus ever offered. Well respected for its imagery and soft…
Camera not included! Fits Contax I, II, III, IIa & IIIa The 2.8cm (28mm) Carl Zeiss Tessar lens was specifically developed for the Contax rangefinder cameras as a wide angle lens. In the 1930’s 28mm was considered exceptionally wide and this lens quickly became popular with professionals who could afford it. It was constructed of…
The f1.5 50mm Carl Zeiss Sonnar is a popular lens and is recognized around the world as a masterpiece of design. Originally designed for the Contax rangefinder cameras, it was always an expensive and highly coveted lens. It was especially sought after by photojournalists during WWII because it was by far the fastest and sharpest…
Will also fit the later Contax IIa & IIIa cameras This is a beautiful Carl Zeiss 13,5cm (135mm) Sonnar lens in Contax rangefinder mount. In the 1930’s this lens was a luxury item and the quality still shows. It’s constructed of high quality chrome plated brass and of course it fitted with superb Zeiss glass…
Camera NOT included The 50mm Zeiss Sonnar developed for the Contax rangefinder cameras is well known, well loved and is recognized as a master piece of design. It was the absolute top 35mm lens of its day, a title it held until the end of the 1950’s. This is the lens that inspired numerous copies…
This lovely item is a very desirable and very rare Tele-Dynar lens which was sold as an accessory lens for the 6.5×9 Voigtlander Bergheil camera. The serial number of this lens indicates that it was produced in 1935. Not many were produced or sold and very few of them have survived to the modern day….
A very desirable cult classic lens. Camera NOT included. This very fast 35mm lens was sold under various labels such as Vivitar, Kiron and are now loved as quality, cult classic lenses. Fast, sharp and expensive when new, they were designed to compete with offerings from the OEM lenses produced by the major camera manufacturers….