Here are a few sample photos all taken at f/2.8 (the jpg files are straight from the camera, no correction or post processing applied, full resolution JPG files available on flickr): 2 cm or 0.7 in. You also have to make sure you leave enough space in the background in order to get that “soap bubble bokeh”. The problem is that at 1.1m, a 100mm lens at f/2.8 has a depth of filed of approximately. In order to get the “soap bubble bokeh”, Meyer-Optik recommends using the lens at 1.1m, wide open at f/2.8, with the background at approximately 5-10 meters away:įor me, the easiest way to use the lens was to set the focus at the minimum 1.1m, aperture wide open at f/2.8 and actually move the camera back and forth while monitoring the screen in live view for the best focusing distance (focus bracketing). You will need LiveView and this is the only, not so easy way, to focus the Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 lens. I will not recommend using this lens on a Leica M9/M-E or a film M camera because you basically won’t be able to focus correctly.
The lens has no rangefinder coupling and focus peaking cannot be activated because this is a low-contrast lens. The Meyer-Optik Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 lens has a simple 3 elements design: Available mounts: Canon, Fuji X, M42, Micro-Four-Thirds, Nikon and Sony E.
In 2014, net SE, a publicly listed company (NETK) founded in 1997, working with the brand manager Globell B.V., exhibited new lenses under the Meyer-Optik-Görlitz name at the Photokina trade fair and began delivering the lenses in December of the same year. However, despite privatization efforts, the company was unable to attract investors and was liquidated shortly after.
The use of SCHOTT glass has already shown improved contrast, vignetting and sharpness at the prototype testing stage. A classic triplet design, strongly inspired by Hugo Meyer style 15 steel aperture blades create its characteristic, circular bubble boke h effect. In 1990, Feinoptische Werk Görlitz was spun off from VEB Carl Zeiss and converted into a private limited company and started to produce lenses with the Meyer-Optik logo. Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 Lens for Micro Four Thirds. Many products were discontinued in favor of competing models produced by Carl Zeiss, while the equipment required to produce high-quality zoom lenses could not be procured. After being integrated into the VEB Pentacon and VEB Carl Zeiss collectives, the Meyer-Optik name was no longer inscribed on lenses after 1971. In the post-war era, the company produced mainly Trioplan triplets, usually for viewfinder cameras produced by Dresden-based camera manufacturers Welta, Balda, Beier, and Altissa. During World War II, civilian production discontinued and mainly optical components for telescopes were produced.Īfter the war, the company was expropriated from the Saxony armaments industry and management under the name VEB Optisch-Feinmechanische Werke Görlitz. In 1936, the company was renamed Optische und Feinmechanische Werke Hugo Meyer & Co and produced approximately 100,000 lenses a year. Rudolph also gave Meyer Optik access to his patent for the so-called Plasmat lenses, which at the time included one of the most powerful lenses in the world. Studio camera "Görlitz" Germany, 1930's, National Polytechnic Museum in SofiaĪ key business decision was made in 1920 when the company decided to work with former Zeiss developer Paul Rudolph, who was previously significantly involved in the success of the Protar, Planar and Tessar lenses.