WTB - Meyer-Optik Görlitz Makro Plasmat 105mm 2.7

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

Hi all,
I'm looking for one of these famous lens Meyer-Optik Görlitz Makro Plasmat 105mm 2.7
Do you have a idea of a "real" price for this lens ?

Please don't post commentary like : "I bought mine in a lot for $5" or "I found mine in an estate for £15 with a Noct Nikkor and a Primoplan 55/1.4"

I hate this kind of commentary Twisted Evil

I saw some on the Bay but for very high prices ! ($4000 or more)

I guess this lens can be modified to mount on a Nikon camera or Canon ? right

Laurent

calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7584 Location: Hong Kong

Someone modify this lens to fit hasselblad. It cost around $900 a couple years ago but the price now is indeterminable.

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

There is one for sale now modified for Exacta, another one to fit M42
What was the original use of this lens ? medium format ?

calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7584 Location: Hong Kong

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

It is a lens quite overrated and mostly bought for the "swirly bokeh" it produces. Technically and in terms
of image quality it is not up to par with similar lenses. I have one (the Kinoplasmat version, optical formula
identical), but in shorter focal length I use on my Lumix GH1

nearly fully open:

stopped down:

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

Thanks Klaus, you absolutely right, and it is indeed for the bokeh that I'm looking for one of these lens. But they are overpriced a lot.
there are also some Russian lenses with similar bokeh for much less money !

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Don't forget the Zeiss Jena Biotar 1,4/75mm which is quite swirly and the Helios-40 (II) 1.5/85mm which also swirls nicely (both open or nearly open) - for a fraction of that price (and much better image quality. If you need macro, an additional helicoid solves that, or extention tubes.

Here some taken with the Biotar 1.4/75mm (slim version) last autumn:

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

Yes you right, but the biotar is not very cheap Laughing

but cheaper than the Makro Plasmat Wink

I love weird bokeh lenses, maybe I can open a thread for strange bokeh example pictures Laughing

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Sure, go ahead, I would be game!

koji · Expire: 2012-12-27

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

I guess he meant to do it HERE... Wink

Another very long bokeh thread can be found here: http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10029

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

Thanks for the links, I knew the first one but not the second one, very interesting, it's seems that he or they do a lot of modifications of old lenses !
I like that Laughing

I will open a thread for bokeh, but not nice or good bokeh as it's very subjective.
I want to open a thread for uncommon and strange bokeh Wink

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

please go here :
http://forum.mflenses.com/strange-bokeh-lenses-t30915.html
I just start a thread, I hope it will be of interest for many of us,

Please Klaus, upload some great pictures you have made with your wide collection of "strange" lenses Wink