Zeiss Vario Sonnar 2.8/22-154mm T* ?

[Evin Grant]

Anyone heard of or used this lens? It's a new one on me, maybe a converted TV lens or something?

 

[Matthew Rogers]

Is it a 16mm lens? It looks way too small to cover 35mm. If it does, that's pretty sweet focal range and good T stop.

Matthew

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

It's S35mm lens made just about 100 pieces and "probably" for some special applications (I dunno which one?!).

Also I was interested in that lens but because there were no aperture blades inside the lens I didn't buy it.

Btw, you cannot find any info at Zeiss archive page about that lens and I think it was sort of special order from "military"...

 

[Henry Chung HKSC]

Hi Sanjin,

So does this one got a square aperture or triangle aperture like those TV lenses, how could the light be controlled?

Oh, do you mean that this vario sonnar got slide in apertures like the Imagon portrait lenses from Rodenstock before?

Cheers,
Henry

 

[Tim Lüdin]

It's a very special lens. We (Brian Goff and I) call it the psycho lens.
It's crazy to work with but you can get some good images out of it. You just need to know the limitations.
The zoom range is killer. The lens is about 3.5 kg.
So it's not very heavy for the zoom-range.
The IQ is pretty good till 100mm. Above 120mm it gets very soft.
The lens is breathing a lot.
I would only used it for low budget productions.

Go out and shoot with it. I would like to know what others think about the lens.

Tim