Zeiss Super Ikonta's Novar is a Very Good Lens

<p>During WW2 my dad was in Tobruk (along with the Holy Land, Lybia, Syria, Yugoslavia, Poona India, and Burma for that matter).<br>

In an advance during the Battle of Tobruk (there was lot of advancing and retreating) he went into a German dugout and picked up a Zeiss Ikonta with uncoated 105mm f6.3 with three shutter speeds. You wouln't exactly call it stealing, there were worse things happening! <br>

He was in contact later with a photographer who worked for Paramount Pictures who looked at the photographs taken with the little Novar lens, and called it a "freak" lens, due to the quality of the images it was taking. <br>

I have taken this out with me and shot the same images with a Rollei SL66, which I really thought was splendid. However, it was the shot from the Novar that ended up framed and on the wall. It was noticeably an improvment. This may have been to do with processing later, but still, the end result spoke for itself. There was contrast and sharpness. Perhaps the Paramount Pictures photographer got it right when he called it a freak lens.</p>