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Enna München Tele-Eannalyt f4.5 240mm M42 - any good?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:52 pm    Post subject: Enna München Tele-Eannalyt f4.5 240mm M42 - any good? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's the zebra metal version. Well.

The rendering, till I remember, is average lens. I had it for a short time and don´t remember like a winner nor a bad lens.


PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

West German made lens what is always cheap ...exact of Rino's opinion.


PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If clean, very sharp wide-open.


PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have this lens, but after some few test images I never used it - so I would say it is not very good.
Probabyl I have missed a speciality of this lens (like the special bokeh of the Trioplan 100/2.8 could probably be missed).

I would not suggest to pay 40 Euro for that lens Smile


PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here few samples wide-open on my old K10D. Archive footage. Resize only. Though cloudy weather you can see typical uncoated Enna glass washed colors and low contrast results. Well i like that. Whereas i've seen plastic 28mm, 135mm and 300mm with MC, i never encounter such 240mm and i have many samples. Did anyone?

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not that great actually.


PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems to be nice to skin reproduction.
Anyways a bit less contrast to my taste. Althought the day was complicated to tele pics, very soft one.


PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like mine. It's sharp, with neutral contrast, and faster than any of my zooms at that focal length. And it is quite light-weight, just 300g. I don't get anal about contrast and color rendition since I PP everything. It is a useful tool in my kit.


PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also had one. It was surprisingly sharp, much sharper than I had expected.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could it be that Enna 5.6/300mm use the same optics as 4.5/240mm only more space between front and rear group?

I found only design from 240mm (Mr. Alf Sieger):


PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could be.
Entrance pupils for both would be the same.

Today I tested my 240/4.5 a bit - have a Schacht 90mm f/2.8 which needs some first photos made with it, and took the Enna 240 with me too.

And, surprise: Probably the Tele-Ennalyt 240mm f/4.5 produces a very fine bokeh. Not big bokeh circles like fast lenses, but very smooth, nearly gaussian bokeh. But I have to make more photos, probably real tests.
Looks now, that I have really missed a specialty.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Enna lenses are something erratic in the IQ theme.

I tried not only the 4,5/240 lens (I didn't like it very much).

Another Enna lens tried was the 3,5/35 macro lens. Not satisfied to me, but a friend of mine is very happy with it (other copy, not mine).

Enna is a brand with long history and a lot of lenses produced (in 1967 they produced the N° 1.000.000 of lenses).

I should try the 3,5/35 macro again. It's a lens not difficult to do.

Who provided the glass to Enna? Schot sure not, were they?

Rino


PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here some of my images made with a Enna 240/4.5 M42 and EOS 5D





With that image I am not 100% sure that it was made with the Enna, but the other lenses I used yesterday looked different. 99% sure Smile



All images processed in Lightroom 3.
I think the foliage in the background looks very harmonic. Not ideal gaussian, but pretty good.
Sharpness seems to be good enough for the big pixels of the EOS 5D.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice pícs.

The rendering of the lens seems to me similar to the 3,5/200 chinon not MC at F/5,6-8.

Average lens to me (not bad of course). Average lens, obviously is good one.

Decent perform.

Rino.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The zebra metal version must be much heavier, no?

<350 grams for 240mm pretty good!!


PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

uhoh7 wrote:
The zebra metal version must be much heavier, no?

<350 grams for 240mm pretty good!!

My metal zebra version weighs 300g. Almost nothing!


PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 1:23 am    Post subject: Porst 240/4.5 (non-Enna Teleyt) model Reply with quote

Received my copy today - just says Porst on it. Appears uncoated. Super clean inside, though, Decent IQ if processed and sharpened but not a charmer as-is.

What it does do well is make cool bokeh. The nearly circular aperture is all it takes to get varying sized aperture circles in OOF areas. I soft focused some trees in late afternoon light and created the look I wanted.





PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have older zebra, that is wonderful lens.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Attila wrote:
I have older zebra, that is wonderful lens.


I see many different versions of zebras on ebay. Any difference in terms of lens or build quality? Thanks.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a zebra in the Enna interchangeable Sockel mount system, which is a strange beast. I am working on a portfolio for it.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the ENNA lenses a lot - but the 240mm never impressed me Wink