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mirror long-focus lens on OLYMPUS 4/3
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:43 pm    Post subject: mirror long-focus lens on OLYMPUS 4/3 Reply with quote

Cheap mirror long-focal-length lenses (Rubinar, MTO, ZM... ) M42 are very popular in Russia! They lightweight and compact :





300mm - 1000mm mirror photo lens is applied for any type of camera with a proper ring adaptor to M42x1 thread and used for photographing of remote objects, inaccessible parts of terrain, astronomical objects, architectural details, sports competitions, animals and birds in general ideal for photo hunting.

Special multilayer antireflection coatings at optical elements increase the light transmission; decrease the light dispersion; raise the contrast of a photo object. The photographic lens is furnished with a set of colour filters, and supplied in a handy carrying case.


They produce by LZOS - Lytkarino Optical Glass Factory - Leading manufacturer of optical materials and glass in Russia.
http://lzos.ru/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=63

I used mirror lens with my Olympus 4/3 through steel M42-4/3 adapter with AF/IS (http://oly43club.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=230)



mirror lens compatible with all E-series (E-300, E-500, E-510... not assured about E-3) without any modification!



my collection mirror lens:

Rubinar 500/5.6
Rubinar 300/4.5
ZM-7 300/5.6



MTO 1000/10
ZM-5 500/8



mirror lens Rubinar is sharp with specific bohe (boublik)

on OLYMPUS 4/3 the focal length Increases twice Shocked

photo:

OLYMPUS E-300 + Rubinar 500/5.6 (~ 1000mm on 4/3)





macro:



E-330 + ZM-5 (500/Cool ~ 1000mm on 4/3











full-size photo:
http://oly43club.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=88


PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice captures, with nice lenses! I have experience with MTO lenses, how the Rubinar compare with them ?


PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good lens, designed by the Russian Dmitri Dmitriyevich Maksutov. Did constructive caused no chromatic aberration. Light is reflected and only little broken. Reflector (mirror lens) and refractor( normally lenses).The bokeh is unusual.
Nice Pictures.

Imre


PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What great shots. These mirror lenses seem pretty decent.


patrickh


PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How many cost the little Rubinar 300/4.5 ?

cu Uwe


PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kretzsche wrote:
How many cost the little Rubinar 300/4.5 ?

cu Uwe


My local camera shop has a used one at 60 gbp - 3 don't know how this compares with ebay.


PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On ebay-Germany end in 3 days this lens, i look at this

cu Uwe


PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks nice! I've used some of the inexpensive Korean mirrors, they're pretty nasty. These shots look much, much better.


PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks all for responses !


Attila wrote:
Nice captures, with nice lenses! I have experience with MTO lenses, how the Rubinar compare with them ?


Theoretically Rubinar more sharper and modern but in practice they are identical...


kretzsche wrote:
How many cost the little I have bought Rubinar 300/4.5 ?


I have bought:

Rubinar 300/4.5 - $80
Rubinar 500/5.6 - $100
ZM-7 - $70
Rubinar MTO 1000/10 - $200

ZM-7 300/5.6 it is a very compact lens (little bit less and more widely than Jupiter-37 135/3.5) And always with me my 600мм )




PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VGR wrote:


Rubinar 300/4.5 - $80
Rubinar 500/5.6 - $100



really ?
Prices are higher in France or on Ebay Sad


PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nelson wrote:
VGR wrote:


Rubinar 300/4.5 - $80
Rubinar 500/5.6 - $100



really ?
Prices are higher in France or on Ebay Sad


I bought secondhand lens and when these mirror lenses were not still so are popular ...


PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If anyone has experience of mounting mirrors on a D200 I'd
welcome feedback over prism clearance.


PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Richard_D wrote:
If anyone has experience of mounting mirrors on a D200 I'd
welcome feedback over prism clearance.


Thats a point, the E330 omits all that mirror/prism/bulge nonsense.

Although more recent Olympus models do not - from dpreview of E3:
Quote:
Of course the Olympus range itself wasn't standing still, and after a few false starts (mainly caused by the almost suicidal tendency for Olympus industrial designers to produce cameras that didn't look like cameras) and some flashes of inspired innovation (bringing live view, kicking and screaming, to the SLR market, for example) the E-series started to be taken a lot more seriously.


PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had trouble with D50 to mount them, this lens has large diameter and they hit house of flash.


PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

E-500 + Rubinar 500/5.6:





PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow VGR, you have a real talent. It shows from every different kind of pictures you make.