{"id":72,"date":"2020-11-24T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-11-24T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T18:49:06","slug":"lenses-from-east-and-west-this-time-an-eastern-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"From Jena with Love!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a small post about another new (for me) lens in the camerabag &#8211; the East-German exakta mount (exa) Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm F\/2.8. I regard Biometar as sibling of the legendary Biotar 75mm F\/1.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My copy of the lens is the latest (third) version of the biometar, with six aperture blades and marked as Bm 80mm 1:2.8 &#8220;aus Jena&#8221; on the front ring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lens feels quite light, weighting only 295 g  (for example compared to Zeiss Planar 85mm F\/1.4 ZF.2, which is 570 g).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two quick snaps of the local model, lens wide open at F\/2.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3615-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" srcset=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3615-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3615-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3615-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3617-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3617-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3617-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC3617-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a small post about another new (for me) lens in the camerabag &#8211; the East-German exakta mount (exa) Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=72\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Jena with Love!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}