Many thanks for the opportunity to review the Tele-N 3.5 / 200 lens Ivan Kosarekov.
Overview of Tele-N 3.5 / 200
Telear-N 3.5/200 is an amazing Soviet telephoto lens. Tele-N has a 200mm focal length and F3.5 aperture, which is a very good indicator for such a large focal length.
Tele-H 3.5 / 200 bokeh example
TTX Tele-N 3.5 / 200
- Focal Length: 200mm
- Aperture: F / 3.5-F / 22
- Number of aperture blades: 8 pieces
- Weight: 700g
- Optical design: 5/5
- Front Filter Diameter: 62mm
- MDF: 1.6m
- Bayonet mount: H, similar to Nikon F, AI (sometimes PRE-AI / NON-AI)
The lens sits perfectly on the camera without causing weight imbalance.
Tele-N 3.5 / 200 sample photo
Tele-N can very much blur the foreground and foreground. Blurring the background is very important for photographing a portrait. Tele-N can easily compete with such super expensive and high-quality professional lenses as 80-200mm F2.8 and 70-200mm F2.8, since at 200mm focal length there is maximum blurring of the background. The difference in aperture between F2.8 in modern professional zooms and F3.5 in old Tele-N is only 1.56 times. Therefore, if you need exactly a good TV set for wonderful portraits, then it may be the old Soviet Tele-N.
Tele-N 3.5 / 200 sample photo
How to use Tele-N with modern cameras?
The Tele-N lens has the same mount as all Nikon cameras. Thus, in order to use the lens on any Nikon CTC, no adapter is needed. Also, Tele-N is an AI lens. How to use Soviet lenses you can find Nikon on any central control center in the pro section Soviet lenses, or, in the section about AI-S.
Tele-N 3.5 / 200 example of a portrait
Indicators
The lens has an aperture control ring with values of F3.5, F5.6, F8.0, F11.0, F16.0, F22.0. Between F3.5 and F5.6, you can set F4.0. The depth of field scale is indicated only for F8, 16, 22.
Tele-N 3.5 / 200 color rendition
The weight
The lens is quite weighty. Allows you to avoid shaking when photographing with your hands. Weight is associated with a good manufacturing quality of the lens of iron and glass. My copy is 1996, it is already over 18 years old, and it works just as well.
Tele-N 3.5 200 blur background on the covered aperture
Focusing
Focus ring rotates 270 degrees. Focusing is very comfortable, smooth with a nice rubberized ring. The lens has MDF of only 1.6 meters, and after 30 meters, “infinity” begins on the focusing distance scale. When focusing from MDF to infinity, the lens trunk extends 4 cm. When focusing, the front lens does not rotate. Finding a 62mm filter will not be a problem.
Tele-N 3.5 200 blur background
Lens hood
The lens has a built-in telescopic lens hood.
Tele-N 3.5 200mm sample photo
Image quality
The lens is not sharp enough at F3.5, but this sharpness is quite enough for portrait shooting. Normal sharpness starts at F8.0. At F22.0 on my camera, sharpness deteriorates due to diffraction. At apertures up to F8.0, the lens suffers a lot from chromatic aberrations, which make the picture at F3.5 slightly soft. The lens completely lacks distortion and vignetting on cameras with an APS-C sensor. Tele-N reproduces pleasant bokeh. Unfortunately, the built-in hood does not help the lens in the fight against backlight and side light, the lens easily loses contrast in difficult conditions.
Separately, it is worth noting the lack of multi-enlightenment. In general, image quality has strengths and weaknesses.
Tele-N 3.5 200mm sample photo
Personal experience
Using a manual telephoto lens is quite difficult. It's not the most comfortable lens to use. In general, who does not need exactly 200 mm focal length, it is better to look towards the shorter, but more interesting lens MC Jupiter-37A 3.5 / 135.
Tele-N 3.5 200mm sample photo
Sample Photos
Camera photo examples Nikon D40. Original photo size here.
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Conclusions:
Telear-N is an old Soviet telephoto, it has many shortcomings, but a good ratio of focal length and aperture allows you to use it not only as a short telephoto lens, but also as a portrait and creative lens.
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Interesting. Such beauties of the Soviet Union! Respect for your enormous work of popularizing retro-models!
not at all. Zeiss, for example, just release old optical circuits for different mounts for a lot of money, but we have everything ruined.
Absolutely right! With a sufficient investment, by 2000 amateur glasses would be easily made better than the Japanese elite.
Good pictures, the hand of a master is felt.
It’s very difficult for me to catch the focus on the open aperture on this lens, it normally works from 8-ki. But portraits in the open are interesting, with a certain charm. And I like the way it blurs the background.
Yes, it was not easy for me to aim at 3.5 either, I wrote about it in the review.
A very simple solution to the problem is to photograph in a series of frames, while constantly changing the focus. and then one of a dozen frames will definitely be in focus :)
Well, or, as an option, change the focusing screen. But they are not cheap unfortunately.
I have with Jupiter-37 basically so the work goes.
This method is called focus bracketing.
With a diaphragm of 3,5, one could live happily ever after ... However ... I want to cool my hot heads. With a filter, even a protective one, the luminosity of Telear dims noticeably ... However, on a sunny day, you can shoot, practically without problems, but in the forest, but if there are clouds in the sky ... But such a lens (to whom it falls into the eye) casts away sin - no problem.
I installed a Lushnikov chip on mine. It became a pleasure to focus and the photos were sharp.
I take this lens out very rarely, but I always like the photos. It's probably just too heavy to carry around with you all the time.
Over time, the diaphragm blades stuck together due to oil, but this was probably a lubrication problem at that time. A simple cleaning will fix the situation.
Tell me, what if you compare with Jupiter 37A?
If you compare, then the Tele-N is almost two times greater focal length with the same aperture.
In your opinion, what is the best Soviet in this focal length?
As if wait for a garni looking around an asset, and an asset looking. Well, come along with me, I have at once infected the garnish telephoto lens. I’ll give a note on respect for the good optical characteristics for a slightly higher price. Arkadiy can show the Pentax, I’ll blow a long one (:
PS It's a pity that Vee is not an adherent of the Pentax system, but you have a lot of problems for nikon. For example, "... Also, there are quite good native lenses from Nikon - the old Nikon 200mm f / 4 NIKKOR-Q non-AI MF ...", and I want to chirp about the optics of the pentah ale so to the word, the skin vibrating system yaku wants (:
Why, I speak very well about the Pentak, there are even a couple of reviews. It just rarely falls into the hands, the mainstream wins. My colleagues are not shy and without problems use the same Nikkors on Pentax and Kenon.
Zrozumіlo, there will be vibrati (:
If I put this lens on the Nikon D5100, then will there be infinity?
Yes, it will.
Thank you
I had to tinker with the adjustment in order to catch infinity. The same thing with many Soviet lenses!
And if you choose from Telear-N 3.5 / 200 or ZOOM ARSAT H 4,5 / 80-200 (the old name of MC Granit-11n), which one I read, Telear is the most unsuccessful lens - but according to your tests it is even very good!
I would take Arsat, it is a little easier and much easier to manage with it.
And I would - and that's honest! - did not change a good awl for x. (laundry soap. Hole F \ 4,5 + zoom construction + filter + non-sunny day and no stub = not cool shots, but mostly brachok-s. Even a honeymoon photographer.
The third photograph from the end of Hitler's cat. :)
bumps = D
and please review this Konica Hexanon Zoom 80-200mm lens, I’m looking for it and where I can’t find it
If someone gives it to test, I’ll do a review.
I bought such a lens, the diaphragm does not work, it works more precisely, but not all the values, only it’s almost open (Question: what’s the matter with it? I had the experience of disassembling arsat 50/2, I cleaned the diaphragm from the oil, everything became tip-top. And with this miracle I don’t understand. It looks like the diaphragm is clean, manually closed by a lever abrasion, the pin of the diaphragm rotates with a ring, but the diaphragm does not close. I need help in disassembling this miracle)
A lot of people complain about problems with the aperture of the lens, my copy also twists the aperture in the form of an ellipse and all the time of different shapes ... maybe on the contrary there is not enough lubricant to disassemble until I tried, but I like everything super ...
I bought myself this lens in perfect condition, in a box, with a passport, a tube. I really like the way he shoots, I like the portrait very much ... and its build quality ... Thanks for the review that influenced this purchase.
Will it fit the Nikon D700 full frame?
Yes, it’s suitable, this is a film lens, and therefore for a full frame.
Thanks Arkady
tell me, is it possible to put Lushnikov's “Dandelion” on it?
Yes, it is possible.
advise what to choose-Telear-H 3.5 / 200 or MF “Nikkor 200 / 4.0mm” on d90 (telear-2 times cheaper), the picture quality is of interest
Nikkor will be better, although Telear is not bad, but very heavy.
Arkady, how can I hook it onto the E mount?
Great lens. I use two years with great pleasure)))
There are problems with HA, but not critical. Samples:
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/pgogol/tags/%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BD/
Terrible photo quality. Buy a solid tripod for yourself and never shoot on an open aperture, I almost got sick of the soap I saw. This lens is not very suitable for moving objects.
Arkady, tell me, please, what is better to take for Nikon D70s
Tele-H 3,5 / 200 or
Kaleinar-5N
for portraits indoors and outdoors, small macro - nature (which one is more versatile)? Hands are from a normal place, so it's easy to twist a hole, focus or wear a “weighty” lens.
I liked Telear, and how your experience suggests the quality of the picture, build quality, etc.
Thank you in advance!
With Kaleinar, less hassle, more aperture, more convenient on crop, in this case I recommend it.
Thank you for the advice, Arkady. I'll think :)
Tele-N Soviet lens. So be film. So be full-frame.
Question No. 1 - why on your cropped D200 the focal length of a full-frame lens was not multiplied by the coefficient. the factor crop (1,5 in the ratio of 24 to 35) did not become 300 mm, but 200 remained (judging by the data indicated in the corner of each photo of this review)?
Question No. 2 - if I put a 50 mm fix on my cropped camera, will it also remain 50 mm or is it still multiplied by 1,5 and becomes 75 mm?
1) you do not need to do this
2) it will remain 50mm, in EXIF 50mm will be recorded, this is a physical quantity, regardless of which camera it is used on, in more detail here - https://radojuva.com.ua/2011/05/size-of-matrica/
I can upload pictures. after the teleair, I wanted to throw Nikon optics (cheap lenses) 18-135, 70-300
It's a shame that our (CIS) industry has stopped producing lenses. would be made under canon, nikon pentaks sony and mirrorless.
On the second attempt I got this beast in my hands ... ... .. The impressions are contradictory ... ..But I absolutely do not regret the purchase. I took it on May 9 .... 200 mm of focus is not quite that - the viewing angle is too small ... ... ... but the background mopping impressed. .the picture on an open aperture is quite sharp and juicy ... ..in presence I have a native whale 18-55 ... ... if there is time to indulge ... ..then I remove the whale to the side and shoot with Telear ... ... without Lushnikov's dandelion it is not easy to get into focus ... .But with the help of bracketing, successful shots are obtained ... ... ..And from the results obtained I get a thrill ... ... now I am hunting for Soviet manuals with aperture 85 mm and 50 mm ... .. I recommend
I will add to what I said earlier on May 9, I took Telear in my hands for the third time. Or it was bought three days ago ... the percentage of focus is 60. I think that for such a short period of time it's pretty good. Another important detail in the shadows, he showed himself well. whale 18-55
I bought this lens for myself, was completely satisfied with the purchase. It is on Nikon d5100. I enjoy the excellent photos. If anyone wants to test, I live in Poltava, contact
I overlooked the Nikon 5200, took it, with carvings, although it says H, the result of the pictures is muddy after 30 meters, what should I do? Fotkal through the adapter threaded Chinese. To find the bayonet Nikon original with telear n ???
Search.
A good lens) I sell the same, but with an M42 thread and an adapter for Canon, well, a gift)
ask for the link in the name
not relevant
You have written “Using a manual tele zoom lens is quite difficult”. Is it a tealear zoom?
Thanks. Corrected.
“But in reality, only Jupiter-36V 250mm F3.5 and Jasper-4H can compete with Tele-N” Is there another Oberon-11K 200 / 2.8.Are you unable to make a review about it? It is interesting to compare it with Tele-N .I don’t propose Jasper, it is apparently impossible to find. And Oberon, although rare, sometimes appears on the Internet for 7-8 thousand rubles (in a used state).
Gentlemen, who sculpted on this glass Dandelion Lushnikov .. pliz leave comments .. what and how .... and how much better it became to focus ???
I have it
with focusing now it’s like autofocus
I just bought my lens from the official Arsenal store a long time ago. I had it adjusted. But for some reason Lushnikov’s chip didn’t come into focus. It was either back focus or front focus, I don’t remember. The chip itself can be programmed and the focus can be corrected - after that I myself saw how sharp this lens is when wide open. Without a chip, I thought it was lathering in the first days after purchase))))
Also in the camera it is possible to adjust the back/front focus if necessary.
But I recently bought the Lushnikov chip only for Canon. This time everything worked out perfectly, there was no need for programming. On my Canon it turned out that in an apartment if you adjust from infinity to the object there will be back focus, and if from a meter to the object then front focus
In good lighting everything is fine and hits clearly. But this is only in my Canon (5dmk2)
Perfect on Nikon.
on this lens, in order to glue the chip, you need to cut off a little of the black skirt.
If you have any questions, write, I will help.
And I also glued the spacer first. They will give you everything along with the chip (template, spacer and the chip itself)