Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: Trioplan |
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Seele wrote:
scsambrook wrote: |
The Meritar was, according to the markings on it, made by Ludwig of Berlin. When it was sold in UK in the 60s (on Exas and Prakticas) it had a pretty bad reputation - folks actually traded up to a Domiplan ! Well, that's not quite true, because few dealers would take a Meritar in part-exchange. How would you sell anything with a reputation that was so bad?
You don't often see Meritars on eBay - I keep looking for one, just to try and see if it really could be the disaster we all blindly accepted it to be way back then. |
Ludwig was in Rathenow, not quite Berlin, same town as Emil Busch. From what I know the Meritar can vary in quality, especiall when you are looking at used specimen whose earlier lives in the hands on previous owners cannot be ascertained. But for simpler triplet type lenses they tend to perform very well, often better than double-gauss type fast lenses, when used for low magnification macro work. |