Freelensing meyer helioplan 165mm 6.8

jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

A freellens shot with the Meyer Goerlitz Doppel Anastigmat Helioplan 165mm 6.8 . I picked this up on the bay for under 20 dollars including shipping. It was in an AGC Ibsor shutter (kinda functional! ). The 13 (or so) blade aperture goes from 6.8 to 36 and is always completely round. Shutter has T B 1 2 5 10 25 50 and 100 speeds. The lens is, of course, uncoated. It was in excellent condition, with just a hint of haze despite being 80 or so years old. Shot at whatever is between 6.8 and 12.5 on the aperture, the numbers were unreadable due to goo from tape.. Straight from camera,
Resize only. Have I mentioned I like helioplans?

Sciolist · Expire: 2021-04-16

What strikes me is how easy the image is on the eye.

Nicely done Like 1

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jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

Thanks. Mostly luck I think. I came home from work and the sun was in "golden hour" the lens was on the doorstep. I quickly cobbled m42 extension tubes to the rough FL. With the m42 helicals I was able to hold the lens flush against a solid tube blocking most of the light leaking in. Then snapped a few shots of the garden flowers. This was the best shot right out of camera. It did not come with a jam nut so I'll have to get one if I want to do a solid mount. Seems it might be worth the effort. Anybody know by chance what camera type this might have been from (9x12?) Very little info about it on the net. Just looking at the shutter I'm guessing early 1930s as it is a shutter that uses the actuation as the energy to flick lens through, as opposed to a cocked spring.
Here is a shot of the lens :

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jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

So by the Thiel numbers just prior to 1930 or just after using the first list. Cool, thanks. I'll try to post some more shots a bit later. I cobbled together a better adapter system with a nex-minolta ,minolta compact bellows- minolta m42,m42 helical, m42 extension tube and blue tak to hold the lens hands free. It eliminated the vignettes

jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

Another straight from camera, though not free lensing as this used the blue-tak mount.

Sciolist · Expire: 2021-04-16

Lovely. I was hoping you'd put some more up. Thanks jamaeolus.

Sciolist · Expire: 2021-04-16

Lovely. I was hoping you'd put some more up. Thanks jamaeolus.

jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

Here's a few more. I think it's a remarkable lens considering it's around 90 years old and was designed for black and white photography.

jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

Sciolist · Expire: 2021-04-16

No coatings you'd imagine. It seems to create a bone honesty to those colours. I have that purple Clematis ("Here's a few more..." #1) in my garden. It is exactly that shade. I've become interested in these older lenses myself but I'm a little behind. I'm currently working through how to mount and use them successfully. I said "them", but it's actually only one so far. A 1937 CZ Tessar.

jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

Tessar's are fine lenses. Is it from an interchangeable mount SLR or a fixed lens camera?

Sciolist · Expire: 2021-04-16

jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

Hmm not familiar with that camera. Just so you know 39mm threads are somewhat of a problem. Leica threads (aka LTM) are 39mm but the pitch is not metric IIRC its some weird combo of 26 threads per inch. Paxette are 39mm x 1 metric as are canon thread mount. It is easy to bung threads from one system to the other as they almost fit. This is a very useful chart for lens adaptation aficianados:

http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/mounts-by-register.html

Sciolist · Expire: 2021-04-16

Oldhand · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 11:07 pm Post subject:

Beautiful results.
I am thinking that this lens would also produce very nice portraits.
Thanks for sharing yours
Tom

jamaeolus · Expire: 2015-08-20

Thanks for the compliment. I agree regarding portraits. Its plenty sharp but not too sharp, and the focal length would lend itself to that usage. I am terrible at portraits though...