[Dr_who]

I found a post about the Trioplan 100 on kickstarter but couldn't find a post that mentioned the Trioplan 50 2.9 so I thought I'd mention it. Probably beyond my budget but I'm sure others would be interested.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meyeroptik/awaken-the-legendary-soap-bu...token=6fd9ab2a

[pathdoc]

Of note:

It will be available with mounts for:

• Canon EF
• Nikon F
• Sony E
• FujiX
• Micro Four Thirds
• M42
• Leica M (rangefinder not supported/focusing via live view)
• NEW: Leica L , suitable for SL & T mirrorless cameras (strictly manual, rangefinder not supported/focusing via live view)
• NEW: Pentax-K

I'm not sure of the exact timing of this one relative to the Daguerre lens, but I strongly suspect that the campaign to get the option offered and then its successful backing means that future Lomo efforts should be offered in K mount from the start. We have won.

Of course for those with the really big bucks, there is this:

1 backer Limited (2 left of 3)
Star photographer Guido Karp, based in L.A. will personally deliver your lens to your home and stay the day with you for a personal photographic training.
Extremely recommended for portrait enthusiasts.
Delivery between February and May 2017, depending on your preference.

Estimated delivery: Feb 2017
Ships to: Ships anywhere in the world

You just might have to put off that upgrade to the 645Z system you were thinking about...

[Quartermaster James]

Well, <expletive deleted>! I just need to win the <expletive deleted> lottery or something!

[carlb]

I've signed up for the Lomography Daguerre lens - I would probably have signed up for this one instead if I'd seen it first. It's great to see it being offered in K mount right from the start and it's another encouraging sign for Pentax I think.

[pathdoc]

I've signed up for the Lomography Daguerre lens - I would probably have signed up for this one instead if I'd seen it first. It's great to see it being offered in K mount right from the start and it's another encouraging sign for Pentax I think.

As I've said, I suspect it was because you and others (including me) signed up for the Daguerre that this one is offered in K-mount. Once they realised that Pentaxians were willing to put their money where their mouth is, they started coming to the party. I suspect also, though Lomography would need to confirm, that once the trouble and expense of gearing up for a particular mount are paid for once, they can equally be applied to most if not all subsequent Lomo lenses, since many if not all of them are uncoupled mechanicals that don't need anything at the Lomo end except the right bayonet fitting and registry distance.

Practically all of the Lomo lenses I've paid any heed seem to be derived from designs which to a K mount are passive, blind and uncommunicative anyway; I don't think they've ever offered anything more modern than from the M42 era, which only a Spotmatic could ever hope to "talk" to and then only from the POV of pressing the aperture stop-down pin (if present).

Who knows? If Lomo are here twenty or fifty years from now, we could find them offering resurrected "ancient" K 50/1.2's, with special pledges required from Canon users to obtain with specially shortened aperture arms!

[Tony Belding]

For whatever it's worth, I shot this with a dirt cheap Tokina SD 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro lens. . .



This is a lens I've long considered along the worst, and at times had pondered simply tossing in the trash bin. OH, and by the way. . . It's KA-mount with full aperture control.

[arnold]

Is this the lens you mean?
Here is a picture from it. Taken at 1/6 sec on K5