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mirror long-focus lens on OLYMPUS 4/3
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Cheap mirror long-focal-length lenses (Rubinar, MTO, ZM... ) M42 are very popular in Russia! They lightweight and compact :





300mm - 1000mm mirror photo lens is applied for any type of camera with a proper ring adaptor to M42x1 thread and used for photographing of remote objects, inaccessible parts of terrain, astronomical objects, architectural details, sports competitions, animals and birds in general ideal for photo hunting.

Special multilayer antireflection coatings at optical elements increase the light transmission; decrease the light dispersion; raise the contrast of a photo object. The photographic lens is furnished with a set of colour filters, and supplied in a handy carrying case.


They produce by LZOS - Lytkarino Optical Glass Factory - Leading manufacturer of optical materials and glass in Russia.
http://lzos.ru/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=63

I used mirror lens with my Olympus 4/3 through steel M42-4/3 adapter with AF/IS (http://oly43club.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=230)



mirror lens compatible with all E-series (E-300, E-500, E-510... not assured about E-3) without any modification!



my collection mirror lens:

Rubinar 500/5.6
Rubinar 300/4.5
ZM-7 300/5.6



MTO 1000/10
ZM-5 500/8



mirror lens Rubinar is sharp with specific bohe (boublik)

on OLYMPUS 4/3 the focal length Increases twice Shocked

photo:

OLYMPUS E-300 + Rubinar 500/5.6 (~ 1000mm on 4/3)





macro:



E-330 + ZM-5 (500/Cool ~ 1000mm on 4/3











full-size photo:
http://oly43club.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=88


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Nice captures, with nice lenses! I have experience with MTO lenses, how the Rubinar compare with them ?


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Good lens, designed by the Russian Dmitri Dmitriyevich Maksutov. Did constructive caused no chromatic aberration. Light is reflected and only little broken. Reflector (mirror lens) and refractor( normally lenses).The bokeh is unusual.
Nice Pictures.

Imre


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What great shots. These mirror lenses seem pretty decent.


patrickh


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How many cost the little Rubinar 300/4.5 ?

cu Uwe


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kretzsche wrote:
How many cost the little Rubinar 300/4.5 ?

cu Uwe


My local camera shop has a used one at 60 gbp - 3 don't know how this compares with ebay.


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On ebay-Germany end in 3 days this lens, i look at this

cu Uwe


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Looks nice! I've used some of the inexpensive Korean mirrors, they're pretty nasty. These shots look much, much better.


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Thanks all for responses !


Attila wrote:
Nice captures, with nice lenses! I have experience with MTO lenses, how the Rubinar compare with them ?


Theoretically Rubinar more sharper and modern but in practice they are identical...


kretzsche wrote:
How many cost the little I have bought Rubinar 300/4.5 ?


I have bought:

Rubinar 300/4.5 - $80
Rubinar 500/5.6 - $100
ZM-7 - $70
Rubinar MTO 1000/10 - $200

ZM-7 300/5.6 it is a very compact lens (little bit less and more widely than Jupiter-37 135/3.5) And always with me my 600мм )




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VGR wrote:


Rubinar 300/4.5 - $80
Rubinar 500/5.6 - $100



really ?
Prices are higher in France or on Ebay Sad


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Nelson wrote:
VGR wrote:


Rubinar 300/4.5 - $80
Rubinar 500/5.6 - $100



really ?
Prices are higher in France or on Ebay Sad


I bought secondhand lens and when these mirror lenses were not still so are popular ...


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If anyone has experience of mounting mirrors on a D200 I'd
welcome feedback over prism clearance.


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Richard_D wrote:
If anyone has experience of mounting mirrors on a D200 I'd
welcome feedback over prism clearance.


Thats a point, the E330 omits all that mirror/prism/bulge nonsense.

Although more recent Olympus models do not - from dpreview of E3:
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Of course the Olympus range itself wasn't standing still, and after a few false starts (mainly caused by the almost suicidal tendency for Olympus industrial designers to produce cameras that didn't look like cameras) and some flashes of inspired innovation (bringing live view, kicking and screaming, to the SLR market, for example) the E-series started to be taken a lot more seriously.


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I had trouble with D50 to mount them, this lens has large diameter and they hit house of flash.


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E-500 + Rubinar 500/5.6:





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Wow VGR, you have a real talent. It shows from every different kind of pictures you make.