Lydith 30mm F3.5 II -FUN wide angle you've probably never heard of
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Lydith 30mm F3.5 II -FUN wide angle you've probably never heard of
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0:00 Intro
1:21 Background info
2:12 Which mount
3:18 Lens design
3:55 Sample photos
4:49 Build quality
6:19 Optical quality
8:33 Sample photos
9:11 About Manual Focus
9:42 Conclusion
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I own the Pentacon version of this Lydith lens, build around 1979. I use it with an Olympus M10 II. At aperture 5.6 it is sharp from corner to corner. This lens is mostly underrated. I like it very much. Thanks for your test.
Thanks for sharing.
@Lawrie Conole Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video 😊!
Thank you! Cheers!
"Really, really good" is 3 words :)
I'm glad we get more options with mechanical focus rings. Adapted M-mount Voigtländer lenses also seem like a nice match for the S-series, I've been tempted to test those out.
Math has never been my strength and in English it's even more difficult😅
I own 2 copies of the original version and got some magical results and all time favs of mine, but it requires some special conditions. Mostly there's that emphasize on the center region popping out due to a rapid sharpness fall off. The new version has this effects even more pronounced. Also the color rendition in good light is lovely. Many pictures, stopped down, have a certain elegance that is hard to describe.
For half the price i would alredy own a mark 2 copy. But 700€ is just hard to reason considering that this is a very special purpose lens. Overall it is a very interesting classic lens. Still have the new version on my list, possibly as a gift for my next round birthday. 😊
Thanks for sharing.
I had one of these in 1971 with the M42 thread to put it on my Praktica L SLR. I remember it cost the equivalent of $19 and was also available with the Exacta bayonet mount. It was a pretty basic lens with manual stop down but it all my schoolboy budget could stretch to. It was regarded as the poor relation to other M42 lenses from Zeiss - Flektogon 20mm f4 - and Pentax. Years later, I have bought a good secondhand copy and use it with an M42 adapter on Leica M and Nikon Z bodies. It’s more of a historical curiosity though, the little Leica Elmarit 28/f2.8 blows it away.
Thanks for sharing.
I like the way the town where a lens is made traditionally features in the name of the company - Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, Carl Zeiss Jena, Meyer Optik Görlitz. I went to Görlitz a few years ago in former east Germany right on the Polish border. I researched where Meyer Optik were but of course now long gone. Pentacon, who made Praktica cameras were in Dresden.
True, it's a nice tradition. I've only been to the current Zeiss HQ in Oberkochen and Leica HQ in Wetzlar. Both visits were special, because I was invited and had a chance to look behind the scenes and talk to the people who design the cameras and lenses.
I bought this lens in Leica M mount to use on my Leica digital M camera. It has its drawbacks. It is not rangefinder coupled (for the Leica M camera) and it never gets sharp in the corners. But center sharpness is incredible as is contrast and color saturation. I have a lot of lenses but none of them do what the 30mm f/3.5 Lydith does. Use it to concentrate a subject in center frame and forget the corners. Center subjects truly "POP" with this lens, so much so that the corners are forgotten. It is not a lens for everybody, best suited to those who know how to use it. I also have the East German Pentagon version 30mm f/3.5 but it does not come close to this latest version. The Pentagon has all the same drawbacks but not the color saturation and contrast of the new Meyer Optic version.
Thanks for sharing.
I use the old Pentacon version - the character is similar but the price is more appropriate
Yours is probably better bang for the money.
Hi Matti I have just a question - which model is the latest version of the lumix GX7 which has the same features - such as the tiltable viewfinder - flipp screen and interchangeable lenses?
same small rangefinder size - Thanks for your answer
I have the GX9 and that has the tilting VF, so I suppose that is the latest.
Nice review! Looks very compact lens. Wondering is it weather sealed. It could be a nice feature to have on modern vintage style lenses since its 2020 (:
True, but this is not weather sealed.
Ty for the review Matti, looks really like a fun lens. But for me it would be too expensive for the optical qualities... Better looking out for a used old one mark I ;-)
It is kind of pricey, I agree.
I hadn't heard of it indeed, but I love Meyer Optik lenses
Thanks.
Wow, I have not much interest in this focal range or aperture, but that lens design is so beautiful. I bet it looks great on range-finders.
Available also for the Leica M.
Buy version I +adapter and save 850
Can you say something about you handstrap? I had one ago three years, but i had to sold them.
Now i didnt found anymore something like that.
The strap is a one off made by my daughter many years ago😀
Is this lens compatible with the Canon M50 mirrorless
I'm not sure if it's available for the M50, but you could use the EF version with an adapter.
Nice!!! First comment
It would be funny to compare with a « real » Lydith which costs around 20 euros.
It would be indeed😀
I realize that this kind of vintage lenses (corner effects) creates problems with cropping. Asymmetric cropping can give weird results.
That is one problem, you can't crop asymmetrically.
On the original it has a preset aperture. It allows you to set the shooting aperture and move between full aperture and shooting aperture. I feel that in reviving the Lydith, they should have improved it. The profiles of the elements could have been reworked to give corner to corner sharpness. The problems here seem worse than the original Lydith lenses and they could have at least made it a preset aperture lens. The price ticket for such flawed engineering is ridiculous.
Thanks for sharing.
Why F3.5?
Why not? You have to ask the manufacturer.
F3.5 is half a stop faster than f4, half a stop slower than f2.8, 3.5 being approximately the square root of 12. 2.8 is the square root of 8, 4 is the square root of 16.
@@marknorton5951 Much thanks for mathematical information 🥵