Meyer Optik Görlitz has launched the 58mm f/1.9 II for a lot of digital digicam mounts and ensures a lens that shares the traits of the distinctive nevertheless manufactured with fashionable manufacturing processes and high-quality provides.
The 58mm f/1.9 II will most likely be obtainable for 9 completely totally different digital digicam mounts: Canon EF, Fujifilm X, Leica L, Leica M, Micro four Thirds, M42, Nikon F, Pentax Okay, and Sony E. It should be well-known that whereas it is applicable with Leica M-Mount rangefinders, the lens does not assist rangefinder coupling and thus focusing should be carried out by means of LiveView.
The preliminary Primoplan 58 f1.9 was developed by the wise Meyer-Optik designer Paul Schäfter 80 years prior to now. Its gentle depth of 1:1.9, which was thought-about terribly extreme once more then, made the Primoplan 58 f1.9 a few of the thrilling lenses of its time. The Primoplan 58 f1.9 gained its legendary fame amongst photographers world extensive in a short time the least bit.
The distinctive 58mm f/1.9 can nonetheless be found by way of some retailers for spherical $600 used and seems remarkably completely totally different than this latest iteration. Meyer Optik Görlitz says that attributable to an improved optical design, the model new Primoplan 58mm f/1.9 II delivers “the very best distinction and extreme image sharpness” whereas moreover promising a lot of bokeh variations: “from primary bubble bokeh, to swirly bokeh, to very snug/creamy bokeh.”
The 58mm f/1.9 II encompasses a 14-bladed aperture, is constructed of 5 elements in four groups, and has an aperture range of f/1.9 by way of f/22. It’s a very information lens with a filter measurement of 52mm.
“The breathtaking pictures taken with the Primoplan 58 f1.9 II are all the best way right down to its unusual design,” Meyer Optik Görlitz writes, “By which a central dispersion lens is flanked by two groups of lenses, each showing as a converging lens. The rear group consists of a single biconvex converging lens, resulting in a fragile brilliance over your total physique.”
Beneath are a few sample pictures that Meyer Optik Görlitz shared which have been taken with the lens:
Whereas the lens is listed for 899 euros on the company’s site, United States-based retailers who’ve the product in stock show it listed for the same amount in {{dollars}}. That acknowledged, it’s often listed as a “explicit order” and anticipated to be obtainable in two to four weeks.
(by means of Photo Rumors)
