nugat Posted June 1, 2012 Share #1 Posted June 1, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Yes, f 0.33 and "buy now" sixty thousand euro. Lot 454-- Zeiss Ikon special Super-Q-Gigantar I wonder if anybody has anything more on that lens? WestLicht Photographica Auction There is also a 1000mm/ 72 thousand euro lens on page three of that auction Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 Hi nugat, Take a look here Zeiss 40mm/0.33 lens for 60,000 euro. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
nugat Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share #2 Posted June 1, 2012 two pix, there is more at the linked site. and some info: forum.mflenses.com/fastest-lens-on-earth-by-zeiss-on-auction-t37873.html Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/180764-zeiss-40mm033-lens-for-60000-euro/?do=findComment&comment=2028724'>More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 1, 2012 Share #3 Posted June 1, 2012 Well, this is a bit off topic from the Leica forum... : but the f 0,33 was already discussed at the time of the Westlicht auction; it's anyway a unique and hand/made lens... but seems also that it is a sort of "recreation project" made by some Zeiss engineers, in times that were a lot difficult for the Company, to make a display lens for some event or trade fair or similar : no picture taken with it has never been published... and seems that the glass elements did indeed come from some other optical gear (a condenser, iirc), not intended for photographic use, and adapted to a Zeiss Contarex mount. "Gigantar" sounds fine as a name... but "Q" was for "Quatsch" (="nonsense")... So the price is undoubtly an oddity... ; not the same for the 1000mm Zeiss Mirotar..a precious a very finely made mirror lens, of exceptional aperture, which was "regularly" listed by Zeiss for many years, in several mounts (Contarex, Rolleiflex 66, Rolleiflex 35, Contax RTS... maybe even some other), at stellar price and with, of course, no great commercial success... but is a perfectly legitimate and very interesting collectible. (btw, its little brother of 500mm is, relatively speaking, more "common" and "cheap"... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugat Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share #4 Posted June 1, 2012 I thought Zeiss Ikon is Leica mount.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 1, 2012 Share #5 Posted June 1, 2012 I thought Zeiss Ikon is Leica mount.... .. not at those times... (but I do have a ring to adapt Zeiss Contarex lenses to Leica M mount...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkCambridgeshire Posted June 1, 2012 Share #6 Posted June 1, 2012 The story behind the Zeiss Contarex 40/0.33 lens is documented on pages 106 and 107 of The Zeiss Compendium ISBN 1-874707-24-3. The lens will cast an extremely soft image equivalent using a Zeiss Softar-15. dunk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted June 1, 2012 Share #7 Posted June 1, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) The story behind the Zeiss Contarex 40/0.33 lens is documented on pages 106 and 107 of The Zeiss Compendium ISBN 1-874707-24-3. The lens will cast an extremely soft image equivalent using a Zeiss Softar-15. dunk Great softness is mandatory with the DOF of f 0,33... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted June 1, 2012 Share #8 Posted June 1, 2012 Great softness is mandatory with the DOF of f 0,33... I can recollect quite a few lenses that looked far more interesting than they performed, but none of them worth that much! Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted June 2, 2012 Share #9 Posted June 2, 2012 Q for Quatsch ... that explains it. To achieve an aperture of 1:0.33 (and get a properly focused real image from that), you'd have to circumvent the laws of physics. The theoretical maximum is 1:0.5, and the practical maximum even less than that—say, 1:0.6 or 1:0.55 or thereabouts. Lenses with these apertures actually do exist, but they are for industrial purposes, not for general-purpose still photography. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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