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Zeiss Tele-Tessar T* 4/85 ZM
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Thu December 18, 2008
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Manufacturer description: This sleek and extremely compact Tele fits virtually in every pocket and represents the ideal travel companion for portrait and landscape photography. Combined with a 35 mm Biogon wide-angle lens it makes a classical focal length for countless fascinating subjects. The imaging quality of the Tele-Tessar T* 4 / 85 ZM is equal to the high aperture models in the lens program. It is almost distortion free and adjusted to field of curvature as well as to all other defects in color. With the shortest camera-to-subject distance of only 0.9 meter it delivers brilliant pictures at any distance. The all-metal mount and the robust construction turn it into a universal tele lens, even under extremely rough conditions.
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Posts: 257
Registered: November 2008
Location: Ellicott City, MD (US)
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Tom A
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Registered: December 2008
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 34
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Review Date: Thu December 18, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
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I had a chance to "play" with this lens at Photokina in Sept. Snapped a quick couple of shots with it - but not enough to judge quality by. This was 1/60 @f4 and in the crappy light of a trade show!
It is very compact and fits comfortably on, in this case a Leica MP. Smooth focus action and no slop in aperture ring. On the other hand, I would expect that a "show" lens would be optimized for this kind of action.
My only "beef" was the hood. It is substantial and probably does its job very well, but adds quite a bit of length to the package. I suggested that they rework it so it could be reversed on to the lens for carrying. It would of course involve increasing the diameter slightly and install a 2nd bayonet inside the hood.
Let's see if they will do it.
It would be a nice counterpart to the C Biogon 35mm f2.8 and if the image quality is close to this lens - it could become a nice "fair" weather package.
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