Lomo OKC1-80-1

[bigeyes]

I have to say: "It is super one!"

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[poilu]

super one indeed, cat highlights and bokeh are beautiful

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[laenee]

+3

last one is superb especially colours !!!

[f1.2]

Very good performance by Lomo, deep impresive!!

[iangreenhalgh1]

All the Lomo OKC/OKS lenses are impressive like this, they were top-end products for professional 35mm movie production. The western equivalents are the Zeiss and Cooke prime lenses and those cost several thousand dollars each. The Lomo versions offer the same IQ at a fraction of the price, there are tons of them on ebay for 200-800USD. In resolution, most of them are far higher than lenses for 35mm stills photography, for instance, the Industar-50 3.5/50 Tessar copy has a centre resolution of 42 lp/mm, the Jupiter-8 2/50 Sonnar copy is 38 lp/mm in the centre. The Lomo OKC/OKS lenses have centre resolution almost twice this level, most are in the 70-80 range, with some in the high 60s.

They come in either OCT-18 or OCT-19 mounts, the OCT-18 ones are easier to adapt. Adapters to M4/3 and NEX are available on ebay from a Polish seller but not cheap, almost 200USD.

I have a Lomo OKC 1-18-1 2.8/18mm from 1961, rough shape, lots of light scratches, coating is worn off in the centre, but it still far outperforms all of the old ultrawide SLR lenses I've seen, distortion is very small and it is razor sharp corner to corner. Remember, these were made for shooting 35mm movies that cost millions of dollars to produce, so they best possible optical performance of the time when they were made, which makes it unfair to compare them to SLR lenses of the same time period.

Prices are rising because the movie making crowd have caught onto them, many use them with the Panasonic M4/3rds cameras to shoot video.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Info on this specific lens, it's a planar type:

http://www.geocities.ws/kinor35/lenses/lenses-prime/080-oks-1-80-1.htm

[ForenSeil]

Impressive lens!