| Latest Review Posted | Pentacon / MeyerOptik Gorlitz Orestogor Preset 135mm F2.8
"PENTACON 2.8/135 Made in G.D.R.", m42 mounting, serial: 7007xxx
I love this lens, sharpness is outstanding, colours and contrast are superb...
Don't need to mention the bokeh, do I?
The 360º focus ring gives you a precise focus, but when you want to go from near to infinite could be annoying.
Outside you must be careful because it is prone to flare, a lot, even with the hood and a filter mounted on, but in the shadows it's perfect...
If you are photographing in low light a tripod is probably a good choice.
I bought this lens on ebay in very bad shape, rust on iris and in some parts full of oil, the lubricant evaporated and condensed on the front and rear element, particles of rust felled into the front element, the focus ring hard to rotate, and the body would wobble... It took me a full day to fully disassemble, de-rust and degrease all the 15 iris blades, clean all the optics, bluing the iris blades to protected against rust and avoid internal reflexes. Reassemble all the 15 iris blades eas hard ( damned this took me 2 hours, but the last try only took me 15 minutes to reassemble the iris), but all this work paid off.
One example of colours contrast and sharpness:
resized down to about 33%
https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/735x490q90/692/1080w.jpg
100% center crop:
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