An abortive lens/film combo test. Ive had this crazy carl zeiss jennar 180 2.8 'olympic' lens for a while and never really had a good reason to test it properly. The lens was nicknamed the olympic lens because it was designed for the 1936 berlin olympics although my example isn't as old as that. What intrigues me is that from my research it was never designed with a nikon f mount and yet my example clearly a very well designed adaptor fitted to it, can anyone shed some light on this? I can't find any info from the internet. When it came into my possession all of the aperture blades were twisted and mangled up so i stripped the lens down to see if i could fix it. Sadly it was beyond my capabilities so i carefully removed and saved them and now the lens sports a fixed aperture of f 2.8 ! So i loaded my nikon f2 up with some kodak XX and took my daughter out for a portrait session to see what bokeh i could coax from this beast of a lens. Sadly the shots you see are all that came out, i took her to the local gardens where the trees are all in blossom. None of these shots came out just blanks, Ive had problems with the f2 before but never so many shots on a roll. The one plus point is that I've finally found a good way to shoot double x. The shot of the lens was taken with the nikon f2 and a 50mm f2 and i think the contrast and tones are amazing! Kodak 5222 XX @iso250 rodinal 1+50 10 minutes.

Photographer:
charliedontsurf
Uploaded:
2019-03-23
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