#Hugo meyer trioplan manual#
#Hugo meyer trioplan series#

Unfortunately, mounted on the MZ-S, the Primoplan 75mm f/1.9 II doesnвЂ™t trigger the focus assist. IвЂ™ve not used the MZ-S a lot yet but wanted to spend some time with it so thought IвЂ™d give it a run. This time I first decided that I was going to try it on my MZ-S. This has been the same for each of these lenses, and with me wanting to shoot them with film, IвЂ™ve had slightly different experiences each time. On SLR cameras, you focus wide open, then manually set your aperture to shoot. The screen compensates for the aperture setting. On mirrorless cameras this is less noticeable вЂ“ you set the lens to the aperture you want to shoot at, focus and shoot.

#Hugo meyer trioplan manual#

The Primoplan 75mm f/1.9 is manual focus of course, but the aperture is manual too. The result of this is a totally manual experience. The mount is completely dumb with no mechanical linkages at all. But, just as neither the 30mm and 100mm communicate with the camera, this lens doesnвЂ™t either. The Meyer Primoplan 75mm f/1.9 II is a very solid feeling lens. That said, I shall still start by talking about the mechanics.

1 Primoplan 75mm f/1.9 вЂ“ User Experience.

but the price point makes for lenses that really need to be enjoyed for their glass. These new Mayer lenses are all about what they can do optically, yes they are nicely made, feel great mechanically etc. I mentioned this I a recent review of the Funleader 18mm, though as I also talk about in that review itвЂ™s harder to like that lens for its optics alone. Of course, almost just on principle, I like kit that doesnвЂ™t comply with the bigger, better, sharper, faster convention in photography equipment. ThatвЂ™s fine too, thereвЂ™s plenty of kit out there that is supposed to appeal to a broader audience, these Meyer lenses just fill a smaller niche. TheyвЂ™re not for everyone, but theyвЂ™re not designed to be either. ThatвЂ™s the core ethos of these lenses I think. Add to that the rainbow flare and again it makes for a characterful optic that will hold appeal with a specific group of people who like what it does. The 30mm was sharp and contrasty in the centre from wide open, but sharpness falls off to the outside of the frame, even when stopped down. The 100mm still had the bubble bokeh itвЂ™s known for and was very low contrast wide open, but stopped down it had a lot more contrast and behaved a little more like a modern lens without perhaps the harsh clinical look that some modern glass can produce. They have a combination of classic and more modern traits. The result of this, at least as IвЂ™ve found it, are lenses that feel unique in their rendering. TheyвЂ™re reformulated slightly and have modern coatings, but at the same time still have the relatively simple core optical formulae and so take something from the original designs. The thing I have enjoyed the most about these new Meyer lenses is that theyвЂ™ve seemingly not been exact copies of the old lenses. Added to the fact that I have recently found a lot of love for short telephoto lenses, not to mention that I find myself fascinated by new glass that bucks the trend of just trying to be objectively perfect, and I was all the more intrigued to see what this lens could do. Unlike the 100mm Trioplan and 30mm Lydith of which IвЂ™d shot old versions before, IвЂ™ve never even seen a Primoplan lens, never mind used one. I have a copy of a Meyer brochure from the 1930's at home and will check on this specific lens (coverage).The Meyer Primoplan 75mm f/1.9 II is the third of the new Meyer lenses IвЂ™ve reviewed.

#Hugo meyer trioplan series#

There were different series of plasmats available, some convertible, some not. The company ceased to exist in 1991, following the German unification. They continued making LF lenses into the 1950's, but not the Plasmat. After WW II, they were nationalized by the GDR and later absorbed ito the communist VEB Pentacon conglomerate. Hugo Meyer was an old company, other lenses were the Trioplan ( a triplet for portraits) and the wide angle Aristostigmat. Rudolph who had worked for Zeiss before WW I, where he designed the Protar, Planar, and Tessar lenses, among others. The Plasmat was made by the company Hugo Meyer in GГ¶rlitz (GГ¶rlitz is now located at the German-Polish border) between the two World Wars. You will often see the term 'Plasmat-type' when talking about these lenses, and this is the one that gave it the name, with 6 lens elements in 4 groups, the twom outer lens elements on each side being cemented. This is the forerunner of most modern LF lenses, such as Schneiders Symmar (from 1952 on), Symmar-S, Apo-Symmar, Apo Symmar L, Rodenstocks Sironar and Apo-Sironar series the Nikkor-W series, the Fujinon W, and others.