NEW YORK NEW YORK – I went out today with a 1939 Carl Zeiss Jena 85mm F2.0 lens. This lens had a fabulous reputation back then. I managed to fit it onto my Sony Alpha 7 using no fewer than thee adapter (Zeiss rangefinder to Leica screw mount; Leica screw mount to Leica M, and Leica M to Sony E mount). It actually works and stopped down to f11 the lens is as sharp as a modern lens. Wide open it has lovely “bokeh”. The qualities are illustrated in the two images below which don’t have much merit otherwise.
Day 1,565 of my daily photo blog.
On this day four years ago: Mustique. On this particular day I’ve been in the Caribbean in each of the past four years. As a photographer I struggle with the tropics. There’s not much of of visual interest in Paradise. So I’ve reached back four years for a rainy day in Mustique.
