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Anyone have experience with the Soligor 95-210mm 4.5?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 4:50 pm    Post subject: Anyone have experience with the Soligor 95-210mm 4.5? Reply with quote
Does anyone have any experience with the Soligor 95-210mm 4.5?

At the moment I am really enjoying the few 100-200mm (-ish) focal length zoom lenses I own. The Vivitar is great but at 667 grams I find it to be on the heavy side. The Olympus 100-200 is nice and somewhat less weight (570 gr) but not as sharp as the Vivitar. It needs to be stopped down a little from wide open f/5 but that puts you at f/8 which can be a bit slow in overcast conditions.

I have read that the Canon 100-200 is not worth owning. I have no information on the Minolta. But I do see that Soligor had a Komine built 95-210. Komine also built the Vivitar 100-200, which makes me hope it could be pretty good. And the specs I found online put it at a much better 516 grams. I might have to learn to live with the push-pull design (I prefer 2 ring zooms).

So, any opinions on the Soligor 95-210?

Regards, C.


PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Never heard of it but there are samples on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=soligor%2095-210mm


PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Anyone have experience with the Soligor 95-210mm 4.5? Reply with quote
connloyalist wrote:
I have no information on the Minolta.


Check stevemark's comments at the end of his post http://forum.mflenses.com/minolta-md-lenses-t77450.html

I have and like the MD 4.5/75-200, but it sounds like the 4.0 70-210 is best.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:15 am    Post subject: Re: Anyone have experience with the Soligor 95-210mm 4.5? Reply with quote
Knudsen wrote:

Check stevemark's comments at the end of his post http://forum.mflenses.com/minolta-md-lenses-t77450.html

I have and like the MD 4.5/75-200, but it sounds like the 4.0 70-210 is best.


Interesting website! At the danger of going off-topic, my personal experience with Minolta lenses is a very mixed bag. I have an MD-II 135/3.5 and a MD-III 200/4.0 which are both excellent. On the other hand, the highly regarded MD-III 35-70/3.5 I own is ... well let's say it does not do well on my micro four thirds camera.

Edit: Or perhaps I have a bad example (MD 35-70)

Regards, C.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting, and that’s sad. My 35-70 works well for me on a Fuji X-T1 APS-C (16 MP). But then I’m not very critical on these things. The range between good and bad for me is large.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Anyone have experience with the Soligor 95-210mm 4.5? Reply with quote
[quote="connloyalist"]
Knudsen wrote:

Interesting website! At the danger of going off-topic, my personal experience with Minolta lenses is a very mixed bag. I have an MD-II 135/3.5 and a MD-III 200/4.0 which are both excellent. On the other hand, the highly regarded MD-III 35-70/3.5 I own is ... well let's say it does not do well on my micro four thirds camera.


Test results from 24 MP full frame cameras cannot be correct for 20 MP u4/3 sensors. Most vintage MF OEM primes from the 1970-1985 time frame perform pretty well on 24 MP FF cameras. However, they have problems with the ultra high resolution of 20 MP micro four thirds sensors. Zooms usually are even worse. To make it short - your observation is correct and not surprising at all.

S


PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 10:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Anyone have experience with the Soligor 95-210mm 4.5? Reply with quote
stevemark wrote:

Test results from 24 MP full frame cameras cannot be correct for 20 MP u4/3 sensors. Most vintage MF OEM primes from the 1970-1985 time frame perform pretty well on 24 MP FF cameras. However, they have problems with the ultra high resolution of 20 MP micro four thirds sensors. Zooms usually are even worse. To make it short - your observation is correct and not surprising at all.

S


In my personal experience with an Olympus E-M1 Mk.II and 1970's and 80's zoom lenses (and several dozen primes) I wouldn't go quite as far as that. While some are indeed lousy (Sun 38-90mm for example) or "somewhat mediocre" (such as RMC Tokina's) others like the earlier mentioned Vivitar 100-200 or the Olympus OM 35-70 3.5 are not bad at all in my humble opinion. Perhaps the MD 35-70 hits its resolution limit just a bit sooner for some reason? I am still not convinced that my MD 35-70 is A-OK. I suppose a good test would be if I were to pick up an MD-FX adapter and try it on my Fuji X-T1.

Regards, C.
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