http://phillipreeve.net/blog/meyer-triop...w-sony-a7/
He has got some points which I agree upon... But the lens has got its merits indeed.
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Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.
What to expect from a decade old three elements lens ?
09-17-2016, 07:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-17-2016, 07:46 PM by Rover.)
Merits? From the review it's apparent that this lens sucks donkey rhino, to put it mildly.
Quote:Merits? From the review it's apparent that this lens sucks donkey rhino, to put it mildly.
There are many excellent photos taken with the Trioplan... Just an example:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/luverne/se...255592370/
stoppingdown.net
Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.
Quote:There are many excellent photos taken with the Trioplan... Just an example:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/luverne/se...255592370/
So far, so good... but I'm pretty sure that not much of the pictures' goodness comes from the lens itself. It's a combination of the photographer's clever work, light (which is indeed caught very well) and probably postprocessing, and technically these shots are made DESPITE the bad lens, not thanks to it.
Quote:There are many excellent photos taken with the Trioplan... Just an example:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/luverne/se...255592370/
Many of those are photoshop composites rather than examples of what the lens produces....
It's sort of funny ... the bokeh is so bad by common standards, that you may consider is to be interesting. ;-)
Sure, a mirror lens also has its charm... For a grand total of 5 minutes.
Quote:It's sort of funny ... the bokeh is so bad by common standards, that you may consider is to be interesting. ;-)
That's the point, indeed.
For what concerns Photoshop... I have a number of similar photo taken by me, even though not up to the quality of the Flickr gallery... I never used Photoshop (or else) to produce that look. I've only used it sometimes, as usual, to remove or reduce some distracting elements.
stoppingdown.net
Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.
To be fair - as mentioned in the review the bokeh improves when stopping down.
The technical bokeh is never best at full open aperture - it's pretty much always better to stop down a little at least.
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