Taking the Meyer Helioplan for a summer spin...

[kds315*]

All shot wide open walking through my famous park on a hot summer day....

























(Used an additional short helicoid for closer focusing)

[iangreenhalgh1]

Beautiful. I love doppel-anastigmat/dialyte lenses on large film formats, and see the same properties in the Helioplan. I had a pre-war one but sadly it had uncleanable haze.

[kds315*]

Yes, I have a few too as I like them, but also mine are badly hazy and cannot be cleaned. Seems some oxidization or other deterioration of that glass. That Helioplan was a later, coated one, so no problem about that.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Yes, the haze is on the inner pair, so I expect it's the glass type used for those, the outer glasses seemed okay.

Very rare to see the Helioplan in England, but one day I'll find a nice coated one, the Primagon 4.5/35 and Primotar 3.5/50 are among my most favourite lenses so another silver Meyer would be my cup of tea.

[kds315*]

They have gotten unfortunately expensive, but a nice chap here sold me one in private for an acceptable price.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Yes, they are expensive, sadly. I saw the 4.5/40 Tessar and the Jsogon (40 or 45, I forget) sell in the last couple of days on ebay.de for pretty high prices, sadly.

[calvin83]

My Culmigon 4.5/35 are in 4/4 design and it is said it is a triplet based wide angle. Is it has similar optical construction to the Helioplan 4.5/40?

[kds315*]

[iangreenhalgh1]

I think the Culmigon 4.5/35 will be a triplet with an extra fourth element in front to widen the field. The early retrofocus wide angles were mostly triplets or tessars with a large front element added, examples include the Voigtlander Skoparex and the Meyer Primagon, both of which are tessars with an extra front element.

[calvin83]

Thanks Klaus and Ian. I will try some close up later when I the adapter for use in my bellows.

[Attila]

Flower master ! Great series!

[pdccameras]

beautiful work - my favorite is the third image - the background is incredible!

paul

[BurstMox]

I'm usualy never impressed or interested by flower shots. But those ones are really great!!

[bernhardas]

edited

[kds315*]

Thanks guys!

[Mark]

Nice results! Both the lens and the processing are incredible!