![]() My copy was made around 1973, because serial numbers between 6.000.000 and 7.300.00 indicate a lens produced from 1972 to 1975, and my copy has serial 6514236. A closer view on the Pen-F + Planar combo ![]() Good times! The Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.7 T* mounted on the Olympus Pen-FĪs I moved from film to digital I adapted the Planar to the various Nikon cameras I used, starting with dSLR and ending with the Z mirrorless system, but this post will be about using this lens on the Micro Four Thirds (m43 from now on) system, because I am lately really enjoying to shoot the Planar with my Olympus Pen-F. And cheap - I didn’t fear it could get stolen or ruined or even break. Focusing with its screen was a pleasure, and it was so light, responsive and fun to use. One of my beloved Yashica FX3 Super 2000 mounting the Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.7 T*Ī small note about the Yashica FX3 Super 2000: what an amazing camera! Ages ago I bought a couple of them, one for shooting Fuji PRO400H and one for Ilford HP5. It makes me smile to think most of that series was shot on a 6 megapixel consumer dSLR with an adapted lens. ![]() This lens kept me company for the last 20 years or so: I bought it for my Yashica FX3 Super 2000 and I then adapted it to pretty much all of my digital systems, starting with the Canon EOS 300D, using that combination for shooting - among the other projects - most of the light painted nudes you see in my Nudes I section of the website.
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