The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: 15 blades

Before decimalisation, when we had the rhythm of 12 in our daily lives. Before the break up of The Beatles, when we were guaranteed ground-breaking new music. Before the collapse of the mixed economy and the exhaustion of Harold Wilson. Before the end of style and its replacement with the Age of Celebrity and all the empty-headed mediocrity it entails.

A Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens on the front cover of an old 'She' magazine. Photographed with a Canon EOS 30D + EF 35-135mm f/4-5.6 lens. The Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm, a sturdy East German pre set lens, was in production from 1963 until 1990. However, it was redesignated as a Pentacon following the merger of Meyer-Optik with Pentacon in 1971, when it was given auto diaphragm capability. At some point in the production run the number of iris blades was reduced from 15 to six, presumably as an economy measure. This occurred during the 'Pentacon' years. The original Orestegor with its 15 blades is known as the 'bokeh monster' because the blades form an almost perfect circle. Obviously that sort of geometry is impossible with only six blades in the diaphragm.

The Meyer version is the classic "zebra".

Shirts photographed with a Canon EOS 30D with a Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens mounted via a cheap EOS-M42 adapter. Subsequent processing in Adobe Lightroom.

I don't know if time has colour but if it does, I feel there is a very good chance that it is brown. Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens on a Canon EOS 40D.

This sturdy East German pre set lens was in production from 1963 until 1990. However, it was redesignated as a Pentacon following the merger of Meyer-Optik with Pentacon in 1971, when it was given auto diaphragm capability. At some point in the production run the number of iris blades was reduced from 15 to six, presumably as an economy measure. This occurred during the 'Pentacon' years. The original Orestegor with its 15 blades is known as the 'bokeh monster' because the blades form an almost perfect circle. Obviously that sort of geometry is impossible with only six blades in the diaphragm. Photographed with a Canon EOS 40D and a Chinon 55mm f/1.4 lens.