| Author: | | New Member Registered: February, 2019 Posts: 10 | | Lens Review Date: July 23, 2019 | I can recommend this lens: Yes |
Price: $40.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Very good at middle distance, great close up | | Cons: | Weaker at longer distances and not sharp at infinity | | Sharpness: 7
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 10
Value: 10
Camera Used: Film
| |
I have a "Zebra" Gorlitz that is in close to mint condition. A good close-distance and a very good middle-distance lens between F5.6 and f11. As with most telephoto lenses f8 is the sweet spot, for sure. Good - not very good - outside of that range, except for some nice bokeh. Gets poorer in sharpness and aberration increase as you focus closer to infinity, but it is much sharper than the Meyer-Optik 135mm version at infinity. Defo not a wildlife lens unless you are shooting digital and your sensor and processor can assist in better longer-distance image processing, or if you rely upon software processing rather than genuine lens performance to make your photos look sharper. I think a lot of people who are rating this lens highly are actually rating their digital processor and sensor. I use this on film cameras. Big, heavy and bulky and I do find this a rather OTT lens to lug around, but it's otherwise very basic and simple and easy to use. So simply put together that it's easy to open up and clean out a dirty-glass version. Try not to get ripped off with trade-pushing sellers who want more than $60.
| | | | | Junior Member Registered: September, 2016 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 45 | | Lens Review Date: February 12, 2019 | I can recommend this lens: Yes |
Price: $40.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Sharp lens, smooth bokeh | | Cons: | Some fringing wide open in bright light. long focus throw | |
I have the Meyer-Optik zebra version of his lens.
It is a delightful lens to use. Solidly built with a pleasing weight. 15 blades makes for smooth bokeh. The lens is sharp at all apertures. f22 will show up all the dust on the camera sensor. I find that, like many of the manual lenses that I have, it fools the exposure meter into overexposure, so I have to dial in -2EV to get it right.
It portrays colours well. There is some fringing wide open in bright light, but this is easy to remove in post processing.
The long throw makes focussing precise, although it can take a long time to get from way out to way in. If you get a chance at this lens for a reasonable price I would recommend giving it a go.
Sample photos here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zubzubadoodle/albums/72157676181270287/with/46934882272/ | | | | | New Member Registered: November, 2013 Posts: 6 | | Lens Review Date: December 8, 2018 | I can recommend this lens: Yes |
Price: $75.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | extremely sharp tele lens, nice bokeh | | Cons: | scarecely CA's | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 9
Value: 10
Camera Used: fuji x-t100 + x-e1
| |
++ wonderfull lens with very high sharpness
++/+ scareceley visible CA's
++ high contrast and very nice neutral color rendition
highly recommended
| | | | | New Member Registered: May, 2013 Location: Jakarta Posts: 2 | | Lens Review Date: July 28, 2015 | I can recommend this lens: Yes |
Price: $100.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | sharp, bokeh, build, price | | Cons: | long throw focusing, medio heavy | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 8
Value: 9
Camera Used: K5, A7
| |
i have three models gen of Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestegor 200mm F4:
1. Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestegor 200mm F4 (zebra)
2. Pentacon 200mm F4 (zebra)
3. Pentacon 200mm F4 (non-zebra)
both are has 15 blades, both are identical, have same characters, like most of meyer families these lenses has interesting bokeh
here they are the samples photos taken with these lenses:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/roe_groho/sets/72157646075426921/with/19816407515/ | | | | | New Member Registered: February, 2013 Posts: 8 | | Lens Review Date: February 26, 2013 | I can recommend this lens: Yes |
Price: $104.00
| Rating: 10 |
| Pros: | This is a sharp lens that you dont have to worry about funny shapes of bokeh if you need to stop it down. aperture ring very smooth | | Cons: | CA in bright light and high contrast wide open, long focus throw can be a blessing or a disadvantage | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 9
Value: 10
| |
This was a huge surprise. It is a very easy lens to use, except if you have focused far and need to go near fast. But the long focus throw makes it very easy to focus (I do use a precision matte focusing screen). It renders images beautifully. There can be CA on whites in bright light wide open, but on the other hand this is the type of lens that keeps round circles in the bokeh if you stop it down, so no worries there. My camera cannot make video, but it is the type of lens that you can use for that, because the aperture ring is continuous, ie. no clicks, and keeping the aperture round gives that hollywood feeling (yeah , after obsessing about lenses, I notice the bokeh shapes in movies now haha).
This image shows the bokeh at F5.6-6.0:
 | | |
;)
;)
;)
