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The Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 120 mm f/ 2.8 is a portrait fast lens for the medium format SLR Pentacon Six cameras.
The picture is rather flexible and soft, with nice Bokeh. As a result, we've got an inexpensive portrait lens of quality which can be easily mounted on DSLR cameras by means of an adapter.
The lens came in two variants. A single-layer coating has a "zebra" design – black and metal-colored stripes. The black Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 120 mm f/ 2.8 lenses (with a multilayer coating) came later and were more expensive. Nevertheless, the "zebra" enables to use color film due to a high-quality coating.
Initially, it was a bayonet mount for the east German Pentacon Six TL camera, produced at the Pentacon works in Dresden till the 1990s. In the USSR the medium format SLR camera Kiev 60 was produced for this bayonet mount.
The Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 120 mm f/ 2.8 with a DSRL camera will be much more convenient by replacing standard focusing screen with the screen with Doden wedge bars and microraster.
The version with multicoating handles side and back light much better. Nevertheless, a hood is recommended to use with both variants.
According to its characteristics, the Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 120mm f/2.8 lens is one of the best portrait lenses. It is well fit for the other types of photography, typical for this focal length.
It can be easily mounted on modern SRL and mirrorless cameras by means of adapters.
Links to online resources: Posted by: Sergei Borodin Date of publication: 02.08.2010
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