The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Meyer Optik Orestegor 200mm f/4

This is a photographic challenge if you are a visitor because you run out of space in which to back up. The answer is to take your picture from the field behind the building, which, incidentally, costs nothing to enter. Photographed with a 200mm f/4 Meyer-Optik Orestegor lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. The Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 is a preset manual lens, with continuous aperture, which can be limited with a special preset ring. It has 15 blades which close and open very smoothly in the range f/4-f/22. The focus throw is very long. It is all metal and built like a tank. Enthusiasts report difficulty in finding one. Mine just happened to be in a little Zenit-E kit which I bought for the Helios lens. To get the 15-blade Orestegor and a set of three extension tubes was something of a bonus.

A close-up of a Zenit-E made with a Helios-44 58mm f/2 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera. The lens which you can see a part of attached to the Zenit is a Meyer Optik Orestegor 200mm f/4.

Photographed with a Meyer Optik Orestegor 200mm f/4 lens on a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Testing a Meyer Optik Orestegor 200mm f/4 lens, using it on a Canon EOS 30D camera. This remarkable lens was manufactured by Meyer Optik, Gorlitz, between 1963 and 1970 and has 15 aperture blades. It is a preset manual M42 lens, with continuous aperture - the aperture ring has no detents in it, and so it is stepless with a seemingly infinite number of aperture positions.

The lens in the foreground is a Meyer Optik Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra version, so-called because of the stripes. The photograph was made using a Helios-44 lens of 58mm focal length on a Canon EOS 30D camera.