On September 1, 2023, the Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Biotar 75mm f/1.5 II lens was announced.
Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Biotar 75mm f/1.5 II
Basic properties
- For full-frame DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, there are mount options: Sony FE, Nikon Z, Canon RF, Leica L, FujiFilm X, Leica M (no pairing), Micro 4/3 + Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K
- Manual focus only
- Focal Length: 75mm
- Relative Hole: 1: 1.5-1: 16
- MDF: 75 centimeters
- Optical design: 6 elements in 4 groups (based on Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 1,5/75)
- Aperture: 15 rounded blades
- Filter Diameter: 62 mm
- Aperture control ring
- Price: around $1500 (time to raise prices for Helios-40-2 1.5/85)
Sample Photos
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Pot, don't cook. How much intelligence is needed to reproduce the circuit described in the patent of the 30s? Both KMZ and these guys are all getting into it. Yes, you can buy a new one, for a modern bayonet mount and all that. But enlightenment raises questions (like the Chinese trioplane), for example. The price is inadequate - the new version of Gel-40-2 can be bought used for $200. There are no significant improvements relative to the original lens. On current glass, within the same scheme, you can make 75 1.2 with a similar pattern, but overall better optical quality. It’s better to correct the banal (sphero-)chromatics - it doesn’t seriously affect the bokeh. Make astigmatism less (what is going on in the first photo with bokeh? Is this kind of bokeh worth $1500?). This is some kind of quiet horror. Senseless and merciless.
This is a cartel with KZM, now Geliki will be $ 1000 each
Helios-40, by the way, works great with 44x33.
Rodion, what else (not Soviet or post-Soviet) can you recommend for the Northern Fleet?
In terms of 44x33 coverage, I was pleasantly surprised by the Tokina Pro 100mm 2.8 and the Minolta MD 50 mm 1.4. I didn't expect anything from both lenses. More precisely, I didn’t expect anything from all my FF lenses, but these 2 work (in manual mode) quite well (glory to EVI and focus picking!)
Now, in terms of wide angle, I want something that doesn’t cost 2500-2800 € like the Fujinon gf 23mm or 20-35mm.
Do you have any such experience/advice?
Jupiter-9 perfectly covers 44x33. New Jupiter-3+ 50/1.5 satisfactorily covers 44x33. Industar-26m 50/2.8 will be better across the field than Industar-61 when working with SF))) In terms of wide angle it is more difficult - I don’t know many suitable ones. They say that Artisan 21/1.5 covers more or less, but I haven’t seen it personally. Rare – Dokumar 38 mm (f/5.6 or f/8).
Of the projectors, 35KP and RO cover almost everything, triplets 75+ mm.
ZHONGYI 28/5.6 for FujiFilm GFX for 300 bucks
I have. MC FLEKTOGON 50 4 CARL ZEISS JENA. At 44x33 there will be an equivalent. 38. And based on an acquaintance, I’ll give it for 200 USD. A rare version of MS, not a zebra. Perfect condition. There is a case and both lids.
The name is German, they are made in Germany, the price is German .. but the cup can cause eye cancer.
I looked carefully at the bokeh of Helios-40, Zenitar 75mm / 1,4 Helios Edition and this Biotar.
The old veteran G-40 gives much more pleasant blurring lemons without sharp edges, while both new models from KMZ and MeyerOptik show rough edging and distortion of the lemon edges.
Moreover, the new Biotar makes it a little rougher.
In addition, KMZ reviewer Andrei Zhukov directly said at the last presentation that the new 75mm Zenitar does not have a full opening.
Oh, this KMZ reviewer)
But in general, this is the case - I tested both the new G40-2 and the 75 kmzh (calculated by Vladimir Bogdankov) in the store, and 75 turned out to be much worse than 40-2 in terms of sharpness in the center. It seems to me that SfA of higher orders is higher in 75, so yes, the edging of the circles is too sharp and unpleasant. This was probably done to minimize the focus shift effect (to reduce the contribution of 3rd order SfA), but the picture and quality still suffered. The development of an artistic lens sometimes imposes completely different requirements than the development of an ordinary modern photographic lens.
Everything is much simpler.
Programs for computer calculation of lenses do not have an option for special design of the blur image (bokeh shape).
Both companies (KMZ/Shvabe and new MeyerOptik) saved money and were in a hurry, calculated their remakes quickly on the computer and did not want to spend a long time and carefully manually adjusting their products to such an unsteady matter as bokeh.
No, it doesn't work that way.
I am attaching a photo from lens-club.ru of what bokeh looks like from the original Biotar
Another wave of popularity of twisted bokeh is coming, now under the bzk)). Here is the same Helios 40-2 paradoxical lens. I really don’t like shooting with it, but I really like the final photos.
It might be a good lens. It might be worth its price (which I seriously doubt), but I wouldn’t buy anything for that kind of money. For them you can buy 3-4 worthy lenses, which will serve the photographer faithfully and faithfully for a long time. Such loud bokeh is not like any other. And the lens may, as you might be surprised at carefully aimed photos, have problems with sharpness, not to mention microcontrast. The Chinese optical industry could not be more amazed at how powerful it is.
Ruler Rodion, apparently about those that the mind does not need a carriage and a cart to mindlessly copy history from as many as a hundred years ago.
Alexander, that’s exactly how many times in the seven years of using the G-40-2 I swore enough was enough, it’s enough just to shoot on it, but I have other Mayers-Pentacons-Zais-Takumars, Zuikas, etc. Still, there is no better picture than Gelika.
This is my personal IMHO, so to speak.