CZ Jena ID anyone?

[bonneville]

Browsing in the LCE Nottingham shop today I found in their second hand cabinet a Carl Zeiss Jena AF Zoom 70-210 f4.5-5.6 Macro.

It has a push/pull zoom action (very smooth) and auto focussed quickly, if not a little noisely, on one of their alpha 700s. Complete with leather tubular case.

I bought it for £9.99 in a moment of curiosity and have rattled off a few snaps of my cat indoors (as it was pitch dark when I got home) with the alpha 100 sans onboard flash and they aren't too bad.

Anyone throw any more light on this oddity? It's in very good condition, feels not unlike a baby beercan and although I have no need of it myself it might fit into someone's collection.

[David Kilpatrick]

All you can be fairly sure of is that it's not really CZ Jena unless it actually says Made in DDR or something similar on it. They did a deal with Japanese makers to buy in some lenses and rebrand them in the 1990s. Have a careful look at it.

David

[bonneville]

All you can be fairly sure of is that it's not really CZ Jena unless it actually says Made in DDR or something similar on it. They did a deal with Japanese makers to buy in some lenses and rebrand them in the 1990s. Have a careful look at it.

David

It says, "made in japan under licence from veb carl zeiss jena"

Paperweight then