Dr. Stefan Immes, who revived the Meyer Optik brand of German lenses three years ago, has launched a new lens company called Opema Jena, which for its first project is bringing back the Biotar 75/f1.5, a lens originally produced by Carl Zeiss. Oprema launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Biotar last week. Very soon they will announce a new Oprema Jena Biotar 58 f/2 lens that will also be available for Leica M mount with rangefinder coupling:
Update: the new Biotar 58 f/2 lens for Leica M will initially not have a rangefinder coupling on Kickstarter but it will have it later when it goes to serial production.
What makes this lens exciting for Leica users is that, unlike other lenses that Immes has produced at Meyer Optik, the new Biotar will have rangefinder coupling. We talked to Immes about how this new project came about:
