Pentacon Six infrared lenses.
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Use an adapter to mount these lenses to many mirrorless cameras.
Data credit: these ratings come from the remarkable research at irlensdb.com, a community-built resource that has tested and documented more infrared lenses than any other reference online. I have stripped the retailer links and reformatted the data, but the hard work of collecting it belongs to them.
Ratings describe how a lens behaves on an infrared-converted camera. A maybe lens is usually fine wide open and shows a hot spot as you stop down, so check the notes before you write one off.
Lenses (5)
Zodiak-8 30mm F3.5
Good- Focal
- 30mm
- Aperture
- ƒ/3.5
- Filter
- ⌀38mm (rear)
- Weight
- 1,100 g
Almost no hot spot
Carl Zeiss Jena MC Flektogon 50mm F4
Good- Focal
- 50mm
- Aperture
- ƒ/4
- Filter
- ⌀86mm
- Weight
- 630 g
No hot spot
Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm F2.8
Good- Focal
- 80mm
- Aperture
- ƒ/2.8
- Filter
- ⌀58mm
- Weight
- 282 g
No hot spot
Schneider-Kreuznach Xenotar 80mm F2.8 MC
Good- Focal
- 80mm
- Aperture
- ƒ/2.8
- Filter
- ⌀67mm
- Weight
- 500 g
No hot spot
Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 180mm F2.8
Good- Focal
- 180mm
- Aperture
- ƒ/2.8
- Filter
- ⌀86mm
- Weight
- 1,350 g
No hot spot
Next step
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Links to Kolari Vision are affiliate links: if you buy through them the site earns a commission at no extra cost to you. They are the shop my own conversions and filters came from, and the recommendation would be the same without the program — full disclosure.
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Where this data comes from
These ratings are compiled from the community-maintained Infrared Lens Database, with contributor credits kept in the notes. Ratings are submitted by photographers using different conversions, so results vary by wavelength, aperture and individual lens copy — treat them as a strong starting point, not a guarantee. Retailer links from the source have been removed. If you have tested a lens, contribute your result back to the original database so everyone benefits.