ELICAR 1:5.5 80-200 mm

[Ultrapix]

A lens I picked up out of sheer curiosity, attracted by the minimal size, and of course an enticing price. The peculiar thing is that I have never heard of it, and indeed am curious to learn more about it from the forum.


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The first shots were taken wide open to evaluate sharpness on a planar subject, at focal lengths of 80, 100, 135 and 200 mm.

As can be seen, at the smallest focal length the homogeneity is good, but as it goes up, a fairly conspicuous decentering emerges; for reference, the last photo is taken with a Canon EF 1:2 100mm wide open



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This is followed by a series of informal shots wide open:



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My conclusion is that it is a nice and uncommon lens, certainly not exceptional in either specifications or quality, but that if it were the only lens with me in an interesting situation, it would not prevent me from taking excellent photos, technically speaking, of course.

All the pictures are JPGs straight from the camera.


I apologize for the rotated photos, by clicking on them they appear correctly, I don't know how to correct this problem

[eggplant]

I have always been curious about this end of the scale. I have seen these branded as Hoya. I think one of the advantages at the time was the slightly closer focus capabilities of this lens?

An equally small in the hand, but newer and faster option would be a Sigma ZOOM-K II 70-210mm f/4.5. It's hard to get an idea from online photos, but it doesn't extend when zooming, but is really nice and compact:

[wolan]

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[D1N0]

I don't think this lens is Kino or Komine. Probably from the mid-eighties in the waning days of Jaca when AF was destroying their market.

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[Ultrapix]