Oh, boy! Makro Plasmat 35mm f/2.7 lens, plus!!

[kdwall]

Long time lurking, not joining in, cuz life's been too complicated, but this was too much NOT to share. Dave Silver has a gem up for sale, a super duper rare Makro Plasmat 35mm f/2.7 wide angle lens--

www.photographyhistory.com/makroplasmat35.html

--but don't stop there, read it all the way to the end of his web page cuz he makes a hell of a revelation! He's "going public" he calls it and giving notice he has over 100-150 lenses that were once part of the famous Zeiss lens collection in Germany from before WWII. This is rediscovering lost history! Amazing! I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the note on another forum. I think things are going to be very hot and interesting in the collectible camera and lens world in the coming months! Leave it to Silver to shake things up like this. I can't wait to see what comes of it. By any chance does anybody here have or know of even a single verified lens from the Zeiss collection? I've seen one V-lens in the flesh in a friend's collection last year. Unbelievably cool!

[hansz]

Read the ZICG forum at Yahoo.
Hans

[kdwall]

Hans, yes that's where I saw the news, in Silver's message to the ZICG. He used the sale offering for this lens as a way to announce his Zeiss lens collection holdings. This is really exciting news. I wonder how peopl are going to reposnd when the news get out. It's been assumed for decades that no significant piece of the Zeiss collection was still intact after B&J liquidated it. idiots! This might be like finding a kind of rosetta stone of early 20th century optics. I got it from another source this monring that Silver also got together all the pieces of lists from the Zeiss collection for the first time since WWII and is trying to put it back in order to publish for everybody online. Must be like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. I mean he's trying to put together a puzzle without knowing what the picture looks like, but he has this remaining piece of the collection to help. I think he intends to sell most of it later, but not until he recontructs the list. This might be the single most important research addition to our camera collecting world in this century. I hope people understand what this means and step up.