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Zagorsk Orion-15 6/28 rangefinder lens (Zeiss Topogon clone)
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:15 pm    Post subject: Zagorsk Orion-15 6/28 rangefinder lens (Zeiss Topogon clone) Reply with quote
Lens courtesy of Carsten Smile

#1 One of my favourite trattorie closed down forever Sad


#2


#3 The Orion-15 is, much to my surprise, also excellent close-up


#4


#5 a decaying barrack at the edge of the forest


#6


#7


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks excellent to me! What is your impression ?


PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
Looks excellent to me! What is your impression ?


Fantastic.
Especially if you consider that it's an unchanged and never updated copy of a lens design of 1933
(designed by Richter, and handed over to the Soviet at that same time, because around the half of the 30s
there was a close collaboration between German and Soviet technicians for aerial-photogramme machinery)

Judge for yourself:

#1 picture 1, 100% crop of top left corner (no CA reduction applied):


#2 picture 1, 100% crop of right edge


#3 picture 3, 100% crop of focused part


#4 picture 4, 100% crop (wide open)


#5 picture 8, 100% crop


PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Russian RF lenses are super bargains and they are provide stunning quality as you prove it. Sadly I did pass this lens at least two times locally , it was a mistake Rolling Eyes


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Superb examples of that well-known performing russian lens!!! (Guess I was a bit guilty for that test with my Hypergon shots as this is the mother of such lenses).

I assume you used it on your Leica M8?

Marco Cavina has mine and has also proven how useful and good they are on Leica M8, also for IR work:
http://www.marcocavina.com/articoli_fotografici/Soviet_and_wide_lenses_on_Leica_M/00_p.htm

This is the optical design of the Orion-15 and the mentioned Topogon:

(c) Marco Cavina


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Klaus, Orio even has an M9.

Those are stunning results, Orio! It's amazing what this little lens delivers.
But apart from that your photography is great. You use the light to play with the subject. I really like that.


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's fantastic lens ....

I think the lens is absolutely great !

and well, the Leica M9 quality.

Superb combo!

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
nice quality from 1933 design, crop #5 of pic 8 is impressive on the M9!


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks much guys

LucisPictor wrote:

But apart from that your photography is great. You use the light to play with the subject. I really like that.


Thanks Carsten, I agree with you, whenever the photographer has the luck to have a good lighting that he can use in the composition,
the photo always earns from it.

Quote:
#5 of pic 8 is impressive on the M9!


Isn't it? I am shocked myself! Very Happy


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
Thanks much all of you guys

LucisPictor wrote:

But apart from that your photography is great. You use the light to play with the subject. I really like that.


Thanks Carsten, I agree with you, whenever the photographer has the luck to have a good lighting that he can use in the composition,
the photo always earns from it.

Quote:
#5 of pic 8 is impressive on the M9!


Isn't it? I am shocked myself! Very Happy


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice set.
I like all the topogon clones I have ever seen.
The one That i've picked up recently is the Canon LTM f3.5/25mm. Sweet little lens.
Has character and center sharpness open becoming quite sharp closed down to f8.
Suffers some diffraction at the smallest iris openings as most lenses do.
Would love to find one of these Orion-15 lenses. I guess with an f8 starting aperture it's pretty much already perfect wide open Smile


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
F16SUNSHINE wrote:
I guess with an f8 starting aperture it's pretty much already perfect wide open Smile


It's actually f/6 the largest aperture, Andy, but I usually use it at f/8 because f/6 feels "strange" to me,
and when I make mental calculations of light it's annoying because it's somewhere in the middle of f/5.6 and f/6.3 Laughing


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
F16SUNSHINE wrote:
Nice set.
I like all the topogon clones I have ever seen.
The one That i've picked up recently is the Canon LTM f3.5/25mm. Sweet little lens.
Has character and center sharpness open becoming quite sharp closed down to f8.
Suffers some diffraction at the smallest iris openings as most lenses do.
Would love to find one of these Orion-15 lenses. I guess with an f8 starting aperture it's pretty much already perfect wide open Smile


Congrats Andy, a lens I'm looking for since long (affordable I mean)!
(glad to see you chime in...)


PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
F16SUNSHINE wrote:
Nice set.
I like all the topogon clones I have ever seen.
The one That i've picked up recently is the Canon LTM f3.5/25mm. Sweet little lens.
Has character and center sharpness open becoming quite sharp closed down to f8.
Suffers some diffraction at the smallest iris openings as most lenses do.
Would love to find one of these Orion-15 lenses. I guess with an f8 starting aperture it's pretty much already perfect wide open Smile


Call me lucky, just found and bought that rare Canon LTM f3.5/25mm lens directly in Japan.
In transit now, so I'm quite excited to test it soon...
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