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Meyer Görlitz Domiplan automatic lens 2.8 /50mm
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:36 am    Post subject: Meyer Görlitz Domiplan automatic lens 2.8 /50mm Reply with quote
Hallo!

Yesterday I catched this lens about 17,50€.

I hope, this lens is like the Carl Zeiss Tessar 50/2,8.





Objektiv: Meyer Görlitz Domiplan automatic lens 2.8 /50mm
No. 10418644 Production Period: 1961-1990
die Ausführung in schwarz
mit beiden Kappen
5109833: M42-Version, keine Wippe aber Blendenstößel (no aperture lever but automatic aperture closing with supported cameras (i.e. Exa 1b))
Kamera - Anschluß:Gewinde M 42
Ř Filtergewinde: 49 mm Ř
Beschreibung: Volle Funktion, sauber funktionierende Blende.
Gewinde Anschluß und Filtergewinde in Ordnung
Zustand: Sehr schöner Zustand, absolut gebrauchs & Sammler würdig.
gepflegt, sauber, ordentliches Teil.


On the lens i can´t find the sign Meyer-Görlitz, why?

regards Peter


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you get a good copy it can be close to Tessar.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Domiplan is a simpler lens (a triplet). The Tessar has four elements.
The results however should be optically close (as the optical concept is similar). Probably Tessar images may be more corrected.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A few days ago I bought three of those for EUR3 each from a nice UK chap who is selling off his M42 collection (aside from quite a few other lenses...). The Domiplan is not a bad lens and proves that the Cooke triplet is a simple, yet clever design.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank´s!
I understand, this lens is not so good like a tessar, because the intern architecture are simpler.
I will make a 50/2,8 test. I am waiting for the lens, then I will try a good competition.

respectfully Peter


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
padiej wrote:
Thank´s!
I understand, this lens is not so good like a tessar, because the intern architecture are simpler.


Simpler does not necessarily mean worse. Veijo's triplets prove that.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think, that the Domplan is a good, underrated lens.
It´s lens-design is "simple", but effective.

Perfectly stated:
Quote:
it proves that the Cooke triplet is a simple, yet clever design

Quote:
Simpler does not necessarily mean worse.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:32 am    Post subject: Re: Meyer Görlitz Domiplan automatic lens 2.8 /50mm Reply with quote
padiej wrote:
On the lens i can´t find the sign Meyer-Görlitz, why?

regards Peter

My copy of this lens is the older zebra version and it has the Meyer-Görlitz marking. I got it as the kit lens on a Praktica camera that dates from1967. So I think your lens might possibly date from around the time Meyer became part of VEB Pentacon in 1968. Production of many of the old Meyer lenses continued under the Pentacon trademark, but the Domiplan I'm pretty sure was discontinued. Maybe it was old stock remaining after the merger.

Wiki wrote:
In 1959 several Dresden camera manufacturers, among them VEB Kamerawerke Freital, were joined to create Volkseigener Betrieb Kamera- und Kinowerke Dresden, which was renamed in 1964 to VEB Pentacon Dresden. In 1968, VEB Feinoptisches Werk Görlitz was integrated into VEB Pentacon. Accordingly, the former Meyer-Optik Görlitz lenses were now renamed to „Pentacon“.


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That´s interesting!
Meyer-Görlitz became Pentacon.
I reordered a pentacon 50/1,8 lens too, it´s exiting what the different.

Today I tested a auto revuenon 50/1,8 too, but I can´t fix the aperture, the stick must be locate, but by open aperture, the pic´s are fine.

respectfully Peter


PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Peter, all the history about Pentacon is on this great website:
http://www.praktica-collector.de/toc.htm

Scroll down about 3/4 of the page and you'll find info on the lenses, including both versions of the Domiplan. The Pentacon 1.8/50 you ordered was the rebadged version of the Meyer Oreston 1.8/50, and is a much better lens than the Domiplan IMO. It has a very slight magenta cast which I like!
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