Tessar
Photographs made with an inexpensive Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens.
I bought it on a whim simply to try out M42 legacy lenses for fun. I like this lens. It is light in weight and responds well to aperture changes and focussing. I like the long focus throw and close focus ability. In my hand I enjoy its tactile quality. Fidelity seems quite decent and contrast is acceptable. It's a bit slow, of c…
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St. George's Works: Storage and Landscaping
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'Developers have coordinated and submitted a planning application proposing a scheme of part conversion, demolition and new build for 30 No. apartments, which overlook the Town Park. The proposals also include storage and landscaping works.'
Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.
Leykers: Coffee, Food and ... Passion
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Leykers was established in 1999. They do coffee; food; passion. It says so on their website so it must be true. I have sampled the coffee and the food; they were OK. So far I have not had the passion.
Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.
Petunias and Iron
Cake
No Win
Gate-Tessar
Look Through Any Window
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In the original there were bricks in view, and on reflection I concluded that they were extraneous to the impact of the composition.
Canon EOS 30D + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens.
Lusso Vita Sardine Fillets
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Photographed with a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 Tessar lens on a Canon EOS 30D via an adapter, with an extension tube between camera and lens. ISO 800, 1/100th, and the lens close to, if not right on, maximum aperture. That is f/2.8 on the humble Tessar.
Come Together
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Having bought the book in the secondhand bookshop at Lacock Abbey, I felt an unstoppable urge to photograph it under Benjamin Carter's sphinx which is supported by the plinth in the picture.
The book is open at a reproduction of Evelyn Hofer's 'Portrait in Windowlight' photographed in 1969.
Secondhand books are seldom described as 'used' or (worse) 'pre-loved'. I need to analyse why this is so, and whether it means books are held in high or low esteem generally.
Photographed with a 50mm f/2.8 vintage Tessar lens on a Canon EOS 40D.
Tessar Lens: The Cheap Alternative
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Two people walking in step photographed through the classical porch added incongruously to the front of the Georgian building in Corsham housing the Methuen Arms hotel.
I used a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f/2.8 lens on a Canon EOS 20D. This lens is a Tessar design of just four elements and was a lower cost option to a Pentacon equivalent on a Praktica camera in the 1970s. It was slower of course; f/2.8 compared to the Pentacon's f/1.8. Yet in good light the Carl Zeiss was every bit as good, better maybe. Certainly a sharp lens, and capable of closer focussing than many other standard lenses. I bought mine second hand for £12. I doubt if a lens in good working order and engraved with 'Carl Zeiss' could be found cheaper.
Ashton Mill Windows
International Football
Porridge Pan
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Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm f/2.8. I dare say pretty much any standard 50mm lens could have provided this result, yet I think it is a triumph for an old simple Tessar. Another oddity is that the Tessar - at least this particular version - feels like a perfect marriage with a Canon EOS 30D.
Sellotape & Scissors
The Check Tablecloth
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