Ther Geman Lens maker Meyer Optik Görlitz has announced the new Trimagon 95mm f/2.6 lens. This Full Frame lens will ship in E-mount version in early Summer 2016. The price is yet unkown but here are the full specs:
Technical specifications:
Aperture & Focal Length: f/2,6-22; 95 mm
Lens construction: 3 elements in 3 modules
Picture angle: 25 °
Filter Diameter: 52 mm
Characteristics:
Lens construction in classical triplet | 3 lenses / 3 groups
Iris diaphragm with 15 specially constructed aperture blades and special anti-reflective coating
Mounts: Canon, Nikon, Fuji X, Sony–E, MFT, M42 and Leica M
Available from early summer 2016
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What’s wrong with her nose!?!?!? MOO
And the other has a growth on her shoulder
That “growth” is either a tattoo, or her trapezoidal muscles….
Sounds like the trimagic tournament of Harry Potter IV
Even CCTV lenses are better than these.
I like the specs – no usual aperture, nor an usual focal length.
They probably just stated the truth, it would otherwise have been advertised as 100/2.4.
According to file names, the samples are mere screen shots, so really hard to judge IQ from them. But my spontaneous reaction would probably be “meh…”. Just like the previous Trioplan announcement, I’d much rather buy an old un/single coated lens to achieve this low contrast veiled result.
This one is a full-size picture with EXIF data, taken with Alpha 7R II :
http://www.photoscala.de/grafik/2015/11/Trimagon_5_full.jpg
Thanks for the sample! I’m kinda stoked there is so much noise @ ISO100. Photo must have been cranked a lot in post. (yes, I have the A7RII) However, my opinion about the lens itself remains.
I once had a Jupiter-9 (85mm f/2), but I gave it away to a friend who wanted to try legacy glass on his NEX. That lens was really lo-fi, but even so, it had less haze and better micro contrast than this Trimagon. I normally like a bit of character in a lens, but flatness is not something that I value.
According to http://www.heise.de/foto/meldung/Meyer-Optik-Goerlitz-Neues-Portraetobjektiv-angekuendigt-2916524.html the lens costs about 1.700 Euro. WTF? I can get a Sony 90 or even a Batis 85 for that and have some heavy spare money. For a rebadge such a lot of money …
Is this a joke ? Samples looks like Schwarznegger muscles at 70 years old : shapeless
I think the lens has been home made! Even the font of the numbers looks home printed. Shocking standard of manufacturing for modern times
Faded and washed out colours and contrast too
If that’s a reflection of what the lens actually produces, good luck selling it!
The english version says it all “Meyer-Optik-Görlitz lenses focus on one thing: the soul of photography. Our benchmark? The uniqueness of the images, far from pixel contests and time pressure.”
If they were going for uniqueness, then they skipped last 35 years:
I imagined that if all possible technology are put into a triplet, they could make it really fast yet really small, but this…
I may be proven wrong later on (let’s hope so) but it seems like yet another expensive gimmick lens from MOG. In any case, those samples are horrendous, not just the compression, but the lighting, posing, cropping, retouching…
“Iris diaphragm with 15 specially constructed aperture blades and special anti-reflective coating”
So that coating doesn’t work very well then.
Based on the samples, I wouldn’t pay a fiver for this lens.
Anyone interested in a low-contrast, “vintage” look should just consider dropping $30 on a M42 mount Russian lens and adapting it with a $15 Fotodiox M42-NEX adapter. I just picked up a Helios 58mm f/2 and a Jupiter 135mm f/3.5, both for less than $50 total. Using them is a novelty, and gives an interesting look, and for $50 plus the adapter, you can have some fun without worrying about cost.
hey same pinch ! using same combo Fotodiox M42-NEX ,hellios 44m4,jupiter37a on nex 6
All the fun for dirt cheap.
Russian Helios or Jupiter are great lenses, Carl Zeiss copies. If you find good copy of Russian lens, it’s still amazing quality for cents.
I’ve got the Helios 40-2 (85mm f/1.5). You can get brand new ones for a few hundred, and even at that price, it’s still way cheaper than what this thing will cost.
“Lens construction in classical triplet | 3 lenses / 3 groups”
Wow, $15 manual lenses are more complex than that. This one must be $1000. And I do mean ONE, for the ONE idiot who is SO idiotic to buy this.
Hard to tell how good a lens is when you put a white grading over the entire picture to wash it out!!!!!
Obviously an overpriced lens.
A lens that does allmost everything wrong, but in a quite facinating way… Fun, but totally overpriced.
How many people just don’t get that this is a SOFT FOCUS portrait lens ? It even says so ! Super overpriced, yes. I wouldn’t buy one when there are much more affordable options. But it does what it claims to do. ( Spiratone used to make a 100mm soft focus Portragon lens for the price of a tank of gas , some one please bring that lens back ! )
How many of the rank amateurs out there just don’t get that this is a SOFT FOCUS portrait lens ? It’s supposed to be soft, low contrast and hazy looking !!! Women, flowers, etc. love what these lenses do. Not everyone likes soft focus pics, that’s fine. But these lenses look better than filters or what we do in our photo programs. They’re special purpose. There is no price mentioned so how do you know it’s overpriced ??? If you can find an old Spiratone Portragon 100mm lens and a t mount adapter for your camera you can get this look for peanuts. But don’t mock a special purpose lens for doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. You may not like the look, or broccoli for that matter. But other people do. To each his own.
People know its overpriced because another poster found the price in Europe and posted it, 1,700 euros… Which to me is overpriced.. I know what look they are going for, very close to the same look that was popular in certain magazines in the 70’s, only they just coated the front lens with petroleum jelly, which you could do now with an old lens and get a similar if not better look for about 1,698 euros less if you had an old lens you didn’t want anymore.
I don’t mock the look… I mock the price… which is way overpriced and reminds me of those cheap chinese watches you see in magazine advertisements that cost several hundred but manage to find a few buyers based on giving the watch some european name that sounds close to a reputable watchmaker’s name.
I agree that’s WAY overpriced. You know what it’s supposed to do, but many posters didn’t seem to know what a soft focus lens does. The look is obsolete to most of us but I still see it used a bit. I recommended the old Spriatone Portragon because it does this well and was very cheap. Probably very hard to find though. Thanks for your input.
Looks soft without being particularly glowy, not much like the Minolta 100 2,8 soft, so this lens doesn’t yell “The 80s” like the Mino. I like how the larger image Mistral shared below looks too wishy washy and still reveals a bit too many wrinkles. In the smaller size all focus is on the nose ring. If it’s 1700 euros I would not purchase it if someone threatened to break a clavicle with it.
I agree it’s way overpriced and doesn’t look that great. I wouldn’t buy one. I haven’t used a soft focus lens in the last 25-30 years myself. My point was how many posters seemed to be comparing it to something like a Zeiss 85mm for sharpness, contrast and overall image quality. It’s very obviously a soft focus portrait lens designed just for that purpose. Maybe not a good one, but anyone using a professional camera should have at least a basic knowledge of lenses. Thanks for your reply and good observation.
What the ? So are they just dusting off old crappy lenses and slapping an E mount fitting on their because it can technically work? Those demo shots look abysmal, like almost laughable, soft, bad colour, bad multi coating, just a bad lens. Thats not hipster cool it’s just a silly old lens. Buy an old MF sears, soligar or meyer (LOL it is meyer,, ohh terrible) off ebay or craigsllsit and you will get a similar result.
Any mention of price? Anything over $150 would be criminal. (edit: 1699€ oh man thats hilarious)
Lol at anyone who buys this “piece”
There are a lot of morons with lot of money who would buy this scrap.
or just get a M-Rokkor 90/4 w/ m/Leica adapter..good on A7 or aps-c (gxr;nex7).
I’m sure they want more than 1000$ for that piece of glas with very low quality. A 20$ lens would make better pictures than that.