Zeiss/Hassy 110mm Planar Lens Prices: WOW

110F2.0 wide open (Sinar Hy-6 Emotion 75LV):

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The design goal was different. Then 100 mm was made to see what could be done without too many restrictions. The 110 was made to be an f/2 lens.

The design was not a recalculation, due to any of the two reasons mentioned in the previous post. It is an original design.

 

The 110 mm is indeed fast, and renders in a distinctive fashion, but needs stopping down to be on par with the 80 and 100 mm Planars.

But you do not get a fast lens to use it stopped down. So its use is indeed as a f/2 lens with distinctive character. The 80 and 100 mm Planars are the all round lenses.

 

 

Thanks for that. Very helpful.

110 F v. 110 FE is a matter of slightly improved contrast, or rather less flare, due to cementing to elements that were not in the first version and an added baffle.

The change was made, if i remember correctly, during the F lens version's production. The improved version can be identified by the square rear baffle. You have to be able to handle the lens.

If lenses design was easy every lenses will open at 1.0 and sharp up to atoms on all field of view...

...and photography may be boring.

Some time you choose a lens for his quality, some time for his default

I have the 110 f/2 first version (not FE) for my 2000 FC/M. It is that good. And I have two 2000 FC/M bodies that both still work. Back in the late 90's I paid $600 for it. I thought that it was too much money back then.

 

I also have the 80mm f/1.9 Mamiya 645. I rarely use it as the 110 is far better.

Rollei 6008 + 110F2.0

 

WWII?

yes

Rollei 6008 + 110F2.0

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2021 by jean_philippe_amans

The young women in the cemetery is enough to wake the dead.

6008 + 110F2.0

 

Re the comment on your CZJ 180 mm photos in that other thread, this one is also not sharp, JP. All handheld?

110F2.0 wide open is not a sharp lens

It is, Jean Philippe!

Haven´t used mine for a while. Not much DoF. But always sharp. And the photos you posted earlier/above are definitely sharper.

I began to wonder whether the results of your CZJ 180 mm Sonnar may (also) not be a what they could have been.

Hy-6 110F2.0