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Meyer primotar 2.8/50
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:24 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:24 pm
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Does anyone know or have any samples from this lens? I saw many good samples here of the primotar 3.5/50, but the only thread about the 2.8 is without pics.


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:10 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:10 pm
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I don't remember for Primotar with 2.8 aperture, can you show lens ?


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:25 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:25 pm
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It looks like this:Click here to see on Ebay

I never saw one before some days ago, when it showed up both at a local used stuff shop and on eBay.


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:30 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:30 pm
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I've seen the 2.8/50 before but not often. The barrel is the same as was used on later Ludwig Meritars.

The Primotar 3.5/50 is one of my favourite 50s, great lens.

No idea if this one is the same or not.


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:33 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:33 pm
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Looks Meritar finish ... may just labeled to Primoplan may not..
take it and try it Wink


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:34 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:34 pm
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Attila wrote:
Looks Meritar finish ... may just labeled to Primoplan may not..
take it and try it Wink


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:40 pm
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Attila wrote:
Looks Meritar finish ... may just labeled to Primoplan may not..
take it and try it Wink


I will, if I can get a decent price at the used stuff store.
I don't think I'm wanting to struggle with an unknown amount of fungus for a lens about which I know nothing, so probably I'll let the ebay one go.

Thanks, anyway.


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:57 pm
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This page would suggest that its value (quality??) is about a third between the difference from a Meritar to a Tessar

http://www.marriottcameras.co.uk/praktica/iv.htm


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:43 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:43 pm
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Well, the 3.5/50 is a great lens, I prefer it to the Tessar, nicer bokeh and colours for me.

If this 2.8/50 is similar I'd say it's worth the same as the 3.5/50 - a little more than a tessar due to scarcity.


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:31 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:31 pm
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I think the Primoplan it is just an early Domiplan, as it is a Meyer lens, no Ludwig.
A triplet in 3.5 can be nice, in 2.8 the design is most times somewhat overstretched.


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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:41 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:41 pm
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The primoplan is not a triplet and a totally different lens to the one being discussed here.

This Primotar maybe is a triplet, who knows.

It has almost the same barrel as the Ludwig Meritar later version:





The earlier 3.5/50 Primotar looks like this:

[img]http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=12808[/img]


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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:25 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:25 am
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The Primotar is a tessar type, 4 element lens.


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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:18 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:18 pm
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I won this lens, it will complement the silver version which I also have.

In between rain showers (Olympic weather trumps Wimbledon !!!) I managed a few test shots shown below. All are 2.8 with different colour styles and the low contrast ones are with Cinestyle on a Canon 550D. They all feature the mad Meyer Bokeh Smile

















All are Jpegs out of the camera. No PP


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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:58 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:58 pm
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I have one of these too, I acquired it quite some time ago and I've never used it. It is a well made and beautifully finished lense, It looks quite attractive with its distinctive polished alloy tapered barrel. If it works as good as it looks, it has to be a cracker, maybe I'll stick it on to my old Praktica MTL50 and see what it'll do, it looks fungous free so it should give good results as most 2.8's do excluding Domiplans of course!!


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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:03 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:03 am
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Got one really cheapy, wonderful looking lens but need some cleaning, will test it sooner or later but I need an exa adapter too


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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:44 pm
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Great lens and lovely looking too.

The black version reminds me of Darth Vader!
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