Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm f1.8 and f2. A review of two great bokeh vintage lenses.

The  radioactive Pancolar 50mm f1.8 is one of the most highly regarded M42 mount fast fifties from the 1960s and 70s, praised for its sharpness, rendering and bokeh.   This video reviews the vintage lens's performance on powerful digital mirrorless and DSLR cameras.  Not just the bokeh, but also its stopped down images.

And I compare it head-to-head with an Exakta mount Pancolar f2 - also a fine lens, but with a different optical design and different rendering.

Here are links to the different parts of the video:

00:00   Introduction
01:39   Lens specs.
06:53   Pancolar 50mm f1.8 - performance
12:09   Pancolar 50mm f2 - performance and f1.8 comparisons
19:30   Discussion and conclusions

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