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Archive 2022 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500

  
 
jgiddi
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p.1 #1 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


I was looking on the internet for any info on this lens,
ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500 for the Contax/Yashica system.
All I found was this :
Website


Nothing on ebay or even sold items. This must be a rare one. Considering the 300mm f2.8 C/Y lens is going for
8k i'm sure this 500mm would be up there.

Any information of a sale of this lens and price please list here.

Thanks.



Mar 26, 2022 at 10:30 PM
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p.1 #2 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


Here's the Zeiss datasheet. I'll send you the .pdf, if you PM your email to me.

This lens has been in Lens$db since Version 12, December 2009. Since then, no sales or online shop listings were ever observed. Same for the 800/8. The most recent published update for Lens$db is version 34, September 2018.

Lens$db, http://tinyurl.com/jcolwell-lensdb












Mar 27, 2022 at 06:46 AM
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p.1 #3 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


APOTELYT notes that the 500/5.6 and 800/8 Tele-Apotessars were prototypes, and so probably never made it to the market.

https://www.apotelyt.com/camera-kit/zeiss-contax-catalog



Mar 27, 2022 at 10:09 AM
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p.1 #4 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


Thank you jcolwell for the info. That is too bad they were prototypes.




Mar 27, 2022 at 06:53 PM
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p.1 #5 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


You're welcome. The upside is, who needs an $8k+ 500/5.6 lens? I'd hold out for f/4.


Mar 27, 2022 at 07:56 PM
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p.1 #6 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


These are some of the worst MTF graphs I've ever seen from a Zeiss lens. Maybe that's why they were never produced


Mar 28, 2022 at 05:19 AM
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p.1 #7 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


I wasn't going to say...


Mar 28, 2022 at 06:03 AM
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p.1 #8 · ZEISS Tele-Apotessar T* 5,6/500


jcolwell wrote:
You're welcome. The upside is, who needs an $8k+ 500/5.6 lens? I'd hold out for f/4.


For that price, you could probably buy good copies of every Nikon AI-S super-tele from the 200/2 up to the 600/4 and have money left over. And it'd be the same for the Canon FD L's, with the possible exception of the 200/1.8, which is increasingly rare, but that would probably leave room in the budget for an 800/5.6L.



Mar 28, 2022 at 09:10 PM





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