Domiron 50mm f2. Full-review of this legendary, fascinating, and expensive old lens.
Simon's utak
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The Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiron 50mm f2 is a legendary lens from the early 1960s. It has been described as “bokeh royalty.”
In this video, I look at why the lens is so fascinating to aficionados of vintage lenses, and why its high price on-line fluctuates so much.
I examine whether the lens has floating elements – some people say it does not, but if it does, it is one of the earliest standard lenses (if not the earliest) to have this lens design.
The video shows how the lens performs wide-open and stopped-down, and then compares its performance with a selection of other old lenses.
At the end of the video, I discuss how the lens ranks against the best old fast fifties and if it should indeed be considered as bokeh royalty.
Here are time links to the different sections:
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Specs
05:30 Condition of my lens and impact on price
07:45 Performance wide-open
12:40 Performance stopped-down
16:10 Comparison with other lenses
23:10 Discussion and conclusions: on bokeh royalty
If you’d like to make a donation to support my channel or contact me direct: simons.utak1@gmail.com
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By the way, here’s a potentially interesting idea for a video: I have successfully adapted vintage film era 35mm lenses to my Fujifilm GFX50s and had some really interesting results. You essentially are able to see a greater portion of a lens’ image circle with a 0.79 crop factor on 35mm lenses. I think you’d have fun trying it out!
This combined with a Minolta 58 1.2 - bought yesterday - will make this a great day.
My favorite is currently the 57mm Konica 1.4. Yes I am very weird.
Domiron 50mm f2. Full-review of this legendary, fascinating, and expensive old lens.
Simon's utak
18,326 views
The Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiron 50mm f2 is a legendary lens from the early 1960s. It has been described as “bokeh royalty.”
In this video, I look at why the lens is so fascinating to aficionados of vintage lenses, and why its high price on-line fluctuates so much.
I examine whether the lens has floating elements – some people say it does not, but if it does, it is one of the earliest standard lenses (if not the earliest) to have this lens design.
The video shows how the lens performs wide-open and stopped-down, and then compares its performance with a selection of other old lenses.
At the end of the video, I discuss how the lens ranks against the best old fast fifties and if it should indeed be considered as bokeh royalty.
Here are time links to the different sections:
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Specs
05:30 Condition of my lens and impact on price
07:45 Performance wide-open
12:40 Performance stopped-down
16:10 Comparison with other lenses
23:10 Discussion and conclusions: on bokeh royalty
If you’d like to make a donation to support my channel or contact me direct: simons.utak1@gmail.com
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Specs
05:30 Condition of my lens and impact on price
07:45 Performance wide-open
12:40 Performance stopped-down
16:10 Comparison with other lenses
23:10 Discussion and conclusions: on bokeh royalty