Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm f2.8 M42 Lens Review

Very rare lens not showing up more than 1x a year on Ebay. Very well built quality lens. Ideal for portraits and artistic photographs it has exceptional good out focus background effect "bokeh". Produced around 1950-60 in limited quantity I saw with M42 and with Exakta mount. The 2,8/80 Biometar was developed in 1948. Mounted for Kine Exakta, then Contax (M42) and Rolleiflex.

Fact Sheet

Vendor nameTypeProduct year
Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 1948-1956
Focal Min(mm)Focal Max(mm)Focus Min(cm)
80 80 100
Aperture MaxAperture Min.Barrel length(mm)
2.8 22  
Elements In GroupDiaphragm actionWeight (g)
5 in 4   235
Filter Size (mm)Push on diameter (mm)Angular field
49 60 30.4


 
Comments (4)
Praktina Mount 80mm f/2.8 Biometar
4Wednesday, 01 June 2016 15:34
Brett Rogers
Also made in Praktina breech mount, probably in reasonably small volumes. I have one, aluminium, manual stop down, with pre-set ring. Pretty thing it is, too, like so many CZJ alloy lenses.
Praktina Mount 80mm f/2.8 Biometar
3Wednesday, 01 June 2016 14:36
Brett Rogers
Also made in Praktina breech mount, probably in reasonably small volumes. I have one, aluminium, manual stop down, with pre-set ring. Pretty thing it is, too, like so many CZJ alloy lenses.
Biometar f2.8/80
2Monday, 08 September 2014 00:16
Σταμάτης ΖωγÏάφου
Excellent glass. Can be found in numerous incarnations for MF, where it is used as a normal lens, on Pentacon's Six mount. A Zeiss design, the latest version the rubber one, build by Schneider-Kreuznach, optically identical with the original CZJ.
This lens
1Thursday, 06 February 2014 01:30
Richard
Could be the same lens for Pentagon Six with different mount.

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