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Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens on Canon EOS 30D via M42 adapter. This is a preset manual lens. It has 15 iris blades. vintage-photo.nl/review-of-the-meyer-gorlitz-orestegor-200mm-lens My photo above is not typical of the lens capabilities. There was insufficient light. I did not use a tripod. Worst of all, I photographed the scene through an unspeakably dirty window.

Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens on Canon EOS 30D via M42 adapter. This is a preset manual lens. It has 15 iris blades.

The Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra dates from the 1960s. Manual, of course. Heavy too - 2.15 kg. Therefore, either a fast shutter speed or a tripod is necessary. {I went for 1/500th and a high ISO). There are 15 aperture blades, and the bokeh wide open at f/4 is highly regarded. The focus throw is very long, especially so when close to your subject. You can be fiddling with the focus ring for a long time trying to get it just right. I should have put it on a tripod; it would have been a better experience. I didn't pay much for it, which is just as well given the frequency I use it. But in a studio and mounted on a tripod, I think it could produce some very attractive portraits. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1.

Photographed with a Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4 Zebra lens using a Fujifilm X-E1 and an adapter.

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.

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.

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.