Vintage Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm 1.8 on Fujifilm GFX 100s

Hello,

I decided to publish this blog to help photographers looking for information about adapting vintage lenses to mirrorless cameras especially Fujifilm Medium Format Cameras.

I think the 50mm - 60mm range is a good place to start from, the lenses are fairly common and some of them are not too expensive. Also they seem to cover the sensor fairly well. Some of them, as you would be able to see vignette and the contrast/sharpness is not great wide open if you are pixel peeping.

For this test I used the K&F Concept Adapter for M42 to GFX. This adapter seems well made all metal and my copy fits really well in both the M42 Lens and the Camera.

Too much chatting lets go and see and talk about the lenses.

The first lens is the famous Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm 1.8, my copy is clear and i was lucky enough to buy on a Praktica camera for $150aud (2021). The lens is small easy to carry around and well made all metal and glass.

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm @ f1.8

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm @ f2.8

Carl Zeiss Pancolar 50mm @ f4

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm @f5.6

Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar @f8

100% Crop of the image @f8