It gives the feeling that we could make the parts for this lens in a traditional machine shop, making for solid construction but at a price that proved too high in the face of that Japanese competition.
Typical of its day, the lens displays plenty of chrome, well machined and finished, but with the slightly crude construction that contrasts visibly with the elegance of some Japanese optics from the same era. The passing reference to Rollei is that this line of cameras and lenses eventually evolved into the Rollei SLRs of the early 1970s, manufactured in Singapore, but that is another subject for another time.īut first our tour of the lens. The lens may have been manufactured in the ex-Voigtlander factory at Braunschweig. As the Color-Skopar was also a Tessar-type design, there is no real conflict in this. The lens we have here is the standard lens for the 35S camera body and is reputed to actually be the same as the Voigtlander Color-Skopar, but now labelled Carl Zeiss Tessar. The relevance of this is that eventually Zeiss and Voigtlander came together and in 1966 the Icarex 35S was born, designed originally by Voigtlander but now labelled Zeiss by its new owners. West Germany ended up with the Carl Zeiss plant at Oberkochen, plus the Voigtlander facility at Braunschweig, also the home of Rollei. The East German factory at Jena became the home of the lenses for Praktica and other low-cost cameras, at one time one of the best affordable options for the average amateur photographer. The company of Carl Zeiss also ended up being divided and eventually this settled into two Zeiss companies, totally unrelated, but stemming from the same roots. After the end of WWII, Germany ended up being divided into West and East. Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm f/2.8 Handling and Featuresįirst a little background. Using the 50mp Canon EOS 5DS R DSLR and a suitable adapter, let's see how this lens behaves in a modern context and whether its characteristics can be used to advantage. Choose used and get affordable access to kit that doesn’t cost the earth. Every month, visual storytellers sell more than 20,000 cameras and lenses to MPB. MPB puts photo and video kit into more hands, more sustainably.
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