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Messing with Meyer Trioplan 100. Again, butterflies
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
So beautiful!!


PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I love them all.


PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
woodrim wrote:
I love them all.

+1. All wonderful!


PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very Happy Thanks.

Still, it's far cheaper and a bit less comfortable Telemegor 180 I've made my best butterfly photos with. Definitely not the sharpest or most detailed but most creative and fun.

It's those two.
http://marekfiser.deviantart.com/art/Swallowtail-Papilio-machaon-453388609
http://marekfiser.deviantart.com/art/Large-Wall-Brown-Lasiommata-maera-464557268?q=gallery%3Amarekfiser%2F42077916&qo=35

I'm still a happy Trioplan 100 owner though. I believe the lens can do better than I showed this year.

While Trioplan seems to be broadly loved Telemegor is rather love or hate lens. Can't understand what to hate on Telemegor though, as it brings very special results from time to time, is sharper and less soft wide open and great to handle or pack for a 180mm.

Here's one circlemonster.



PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Circlemonster is Trioplan, right?


PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
In case no butterflies are on sight, it's sun as my another favourite strong motive I'm looking for...









PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shocked Thank you for share , most people not respect much Telemegors.


PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi,

the Trioplan 100/2.8 is a bit on the expensive side going for 600 USD to 2000 USD on eBay.
But the Telemegor 180 is less than 100 Euros Very Happy

Now, do you mean the 100/5.5?
Any difference between the metallic coloured one and the black coloured one?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Telemegor-5-5-180-V-Meyer-Objektiv-/231328800167?pt=DE_Foto_Camcorder_Objektive&hash=item35dc455da7

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Meyer-Optik-Telemegor-5-5-180-M42-1Q-S-screw-mount-lens-canon-EOS-Pentax-K-7D-/271600298722?pt=DE_Foto_Camcorder_Objektive&hash=item3f3ca3aae2


Br,
Sigurd


PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi, Trioplan 100 was just won on one Czech server for app. $322. My price (05/2014) was $288 including shipping from The Cradle (Germany).

A month earlier than Trioplan 100, I won Telemegor 180 for only $40, and yes, it was a really cool steal.

First time, I've waited for an unexperienced seller claiming to sell M42 version but selling actually EXA, which made a certain pleasant confusion and suspicion I've waited for. Paradoxically, despite seller's lack of knowhow, the Trioplan worked just great and didn't need an extra care in any way (which sadly never repeated).

Secondly, I just waited for a weak and FAST auction. In both cases I was just lucky, lucky and patient.

I also grabbed Tair 133 cheaply, around $94, which, if I recall correctly, involved some poker face game and "lack of interest". Very Happy (Since the lens crashed me down the hill 14 days later, and respecting the fact the same seller cheated me with broken Helios 44-2 some days later, it was rather a f*cked up double-transaction overall).

I've myself never went for black ones, so ask Attila or some other forums member. I've let them pass even if the prize was good or even great. I just collect old silver crap - with love! (It sounds a little bit racist.)

I hope it helps somehow.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Simply superb Marek.


PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi,

thank you for your input!

You were lucky to get the Trioplan 100 that cheap!
Seems like many lenses are increasing in price all the time. I guess we have th thank the mirror less cameras for that Wink

Weak and fast auctin....wow, you sound like a pro! I just got started with eBay and read some tips about waiting to the last second to get an item....but a weak auction...hmmmm....interesting! Thanks!

Well, if the black ones maybe are not getting so much attention, I will go for it as I am no collector. Just an engineer having fun with older (and weirder) lenses Smile


Best,
Sigurd


PostPosted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sigurd Ruschkowski wrote:
Hi, thank you for your input!

You're welcome

Sigurd Ruschkowski wrote:
You were lucky to get the Trioplan 100 that cheap!
Seems like many lenses are increasing in price all the time. I guess we have th thank the mirror less cameras for that Wink

Not in my place, since we're expecting winter.

Sigurd Ruschkowski wrote:
Weak and fast auctin....wow, you sound like a pro! I just got started with eBay and read some tips about waiting to the last second to get an item....but a weak auction...hmmmm....interesting! Thanks!

I'm ebaying only less than one year, but I probably have some mechrant skills Very Happy I clearly won many also with some luck, just as I lost some with some bad luck, or lack of clever behavior Very Happy I'm simply talking about missing the end of the auction without earlier bidding at all, trying "not to show my cards too soon" or so. This way I missed Tele Ennaston for €2, Telemegor 400 for €1 (in one case no one bidded, not a soul! Next time, it might have cost €100...), silver Sonnar 135 around €10 twice or three times, ...

And I mostly won the item making highest bid possible (acceptable for me) as early as possible (see what I've wrote about missing the end of the auction being far from the PC, etc.), ain't rushing anything in the last possible minute which could turn REALLY emotional and irrational. Emotions doesn't really fit into my ebay (or aukro.cz, to be correct) strategy.

Generally, I try not to fell in love in just one lens, probably best mindset for saving some money is not to need anything particular right now. I bought item emotionally, in rush and I bought another one patiently, after missing really many auctions I didn't mind to and in the second case the results were obviously better for my wallet. I also bid actively if the item offers are somehow more abundant than normally, which also generally leads to better prices (very simple offer vs. demand rule) but this needs a bit experience and knowledge of the lens.

Regarding collecting silver lens, I'm not a collector but photographer. Sometimes silvers are scarcer and "more valuable" (no racionality included), like that 400mm Telemegor that would be hardly overlooked in a silver version. Prefering silver against black just a bit complicates my transactions but system remains the same. As I already claimed, I'm really patient, having plenty of cool lens to shoot with already Very Happy

P.S. if you look, just look, closely on final winning prices of a certain lens, you'll find some lens prices to be VERY fluctuating, sometimes in hundreds of %, or even thousands. Why on earth would you pay hundreds of % more for?


Marek


PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Autumn with my very "unsharp" friend, Trioplan Very Happy





PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Marek: Wonderful images. Not only are the butterflies different from what I see here, but your images/style are unique. I suspect your processing of the images contributes. Might you consider re-loading the images that are missing from earlier posts?


PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Excellent use of these lenses.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you. I actually don't yet know if I'm used to upload incorrectly or is the vanishing in time a natural part of the process. Be that as it may, I have uploaded all my butterfly related stuff (and generally most of my stuff) on Flickr, creating a gallery for each lens I work with.

It looks far better in the Flickr layout anyway. It was always somehow enlarged here.

I myself see a lot of room for improvements for a lens like this, and if I could time-travel, I would change something on half of the photos or more Razz This clean and surprisingly also sharp Argynnis aglaja photo is my favourite so far.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very nice work!


PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Popular butterfly shot with a popular lens. Apollo meets Trioplan Very Happy



PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Amazing shots!!

(I will place the portraits in another thread if you don't mind Marek, too good to get lost here...)


PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
So the new butterfly season is officially happening. Yayay!



Many things changed, I have M42 Trioplan with very practical small old extension ring instead. However the drawing remains the same - possibly my favourite for butterflies.

As you may see MFD on the Telemegor on the left is pretty spooky (2.65 m) so the ring will be very useful this year.



EXA version of the Trioplan.



Marek


PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice.


PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If I may. What causes the almost dynamic background effects of some of the lenses on this site?


Oh and nice photos.


PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
MartinCrabtree wrote:
If I may. What causes the almost dynamic background effects of some of the lenses on this site?


Oh and nice photos.


Grass and shrubs usually.


PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
MartinCrabtree wrote:
If I may. What causes the almost dynamic background effects of some of the lenses on this site?


Please explain what you mean by "dynamic". Since you said "site" and not just this post, I suspect what you are talking about is the characteristic of the lens. Meyer has several lenses with art-like bokeh.


PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
woodrim wrote:
MartinCrabtree wrote:
If I may. What causes the almost dynamic background effects of some of the lenses on this site?


Please explain what you mean by "dynamic". Meyer has several lenses with art-like bokeh.


That's it. The bokeh is almost alive to me. What is it in the lens' design that creates that ability? And it's not restricted to background either. The image of the white flowers foreground contains a bit of that effect.
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