Jena DDR Biometar f2.8 80mm Fuji GFX 50s
The new rise of mirrorless cameras has allowed many of us to dust off old vintage film camera lenses to use with modern digital cameras. One of these lenses is the Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Biometar f2.8 80mm lens. Until recently we were limited to full frame digital mirrorless camera bodies, but that all changed when Fuji released the medium format digital mirrorless camera in 2017. This is very exciting because there is a whole untapped genre of vintage medium format lenses out there to potentially use. There are many pros and cons to using vintage lenses which I won’t go into here, but a separate post on that topic is coming. A vintage lens on a mirrorless camera is not for the faint of heart, given their manual workings, but the image quality some of these lenses produce is well worth the work.Read More