Fujifilm XT5, Meyer Optik GÖrlitz 2:8, 15 Blades

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Fujifilm Xt5, Meyer-Optik GÖrlitz 135 2:8 15 Blades

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Meyer Optik Görlitz Lenses Are Now Available for Leica R Mount https://petapixel.com/2024/12/12/meyer-optik-gorlitz-lenses-are-now-available-for-leica-r-mount/ #meyeroptikgorlitz #leicarumors #Equipment #lenses #rmount #News

Wala Meyer-Optik Görlitz 50mm f2.9 V ready ​:pikalove:​

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Et wala y a plus qu'a revisser le tout sur l'adaptateur M42, ça ma bien fait chier de limer une bague d'adaptation mais au moins maintenant je vais pouvoir profiter de mon Meyer-Optik Görlitz 50mm f2.9 V ​:pikalove:​

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New version of classic Biotar 75/1.5 portrait lens released

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The Sunny Side
The sunshine melted this side
Ilford HP5
Pentax SP500
Meyer-Optik Gorlitz 30mm f/3.5 Lydith
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Ice Fountain
I couldn't leave the fountain, it was mesmerising.

Ilford HP5
Pentax SP500
Meyer-Optik 30mm f/3.5 Lydith

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Meyer-Optik Görlitz releases Trioplan 35/2.8 lens in 10 mounts

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Meyer Optik Görlitz Launches Trioplan 35mm f/2.8 II for 11 Camera Mounts

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Meyer Optik Görlitz Opens New Lens Factory in Hamburg, Germany

Meyer Optik Görlitz has announced that it has opened a new manufacturing facility in Hamburg, Germany. This new lens factory welcomes visitors, will expand to include a showroom, and will be used to produce new lenses for global distribution.

While the company name is more than 125 years old, the Meyer Optik Görlitz brand itself as a manufacturer of high-quality German optics has had a bumpy road since 2018 and in its current state is less than a year old. The brand was disgraced, purchased, and reborn all in a period of a few short years, and earlier this summer the lens company announced that it was no longer a brand name, but is instead operating as an independent lens manufacturer dedicated to producing quality products again.

The company was originally founded in 1896 by optician Hugo Myer and businessman Heinrich Schätze and successfully made wide-angle camera lenses. In 1920, the company began working with former Zeiss developer Paul Rudolph. In 1990, after spinning off of a relationship with VEB Carl Zeiss, the company was unable to attract investors and liquidated. It came back in 2014 through the new brand manager Globell B.V. who bought the name and exhibited new lenses. By 2018, the company collapsed despite raising over $600,000 in Kickstarter, and everyone who backed the lens projects lost their money. Today, the collapse of the company is described as what “looks very much like an illegal ponzi pyramid scam” on Wikipedia.

Meyer Optik Görlitz is now under new management, purchased by OPC Optics in 2018, and while the brand may have suffered greatly in the last few years, the new owners say they are dedicated to relaunch the lens manufacture as a "real company." As part of that commitment, the new factory in Hamberg, Germany will be the new home of operations.

"With the successful launches of the current lenses and the foundation of Meyer Optik Görlitz GmbH this year, we have built the basis for Meyer Optik's future," says Timo Heinze, Managing Director Meyer Optik Görlitz GmbH.

"Until now, our lenses were assembled by a partner company in Hamburg. Although this was done to our complete satisfaction, it was our goal from the very beginning to handle this important part of the lens manufacturing process ourselves. So, we chose the Hamburg as location because, in addition to the assembling process, we can also take on personnel from the previous partner company and thus have access to existing experience and expertise. At the same time, Hamburg offers many sights for photography, as well as very good traveling options, making a visit to Meyer Optik even more attractive."

Meyer Optik Görlitz says the new factory is in the Rothenburgsort district of Hamburg, close to HafenCity district in a buiding that was originally constructed in 1928. The company says that it is welcoming visitors and, while for now these must be scheduled ahead of time due to the ongoing pandemic, it aims to show off how its handcrafted lenses are being made to any and all interested parties.

"The glass lenses, produced using state-of-the-art processes, will continue to be delivered to the new workshop in the Hanseatic city by Meyer Optik's sister company, OPC Optics, based in Bad Kreuznach," the company says. "Likewise, the mechanical components will continue to be manufactured by well-known precision engineering companies in Germany."

Over the course of the next year, Meyer Optik Görlitz says that it will add a showroom to the same building where it will host workshops and in-house events in addition to acting as an exhibition hall for photography shows.

The company says that it plans to expand its portfolio in the coming year to include the Trioplan 35mm f/2.8 II, which is currently in production, and variants of the Trioplan 100mm II for full-frame mirrorless cameras with Nikon Z and Canon RF mounts. These will be followed by the Biotar 58mm f/1.5 II and Biotar f/1.5 75mm II, which are currently in the prototype phase.

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Meyer Optik Görlitz Says it is ‘a Real Company Again’

Meyer Optik Görlitz -- formerly disgraced, purchased, and reborn -- has announced that is no longer a brand-name only and is now operating as an independent organization. In the Meyer Optik's own words, it is "a real company again."

Meyer Optik Görlitz has had a long and, recently, rocky history. The brand was founded in 1896 by optician Hugo Myer and businessman Heinrich Schätze and successfully made wide-angle camera lenses. In 1920, the company began working with former Zeiss developer Paul Rudolph, who was significant in the development of the Prota, Planar, and Tessar lenses. Rudolph helped Meyer Optik obtain a patent for what the company called Plasmat lenses, and by 1936 was producing 100,000 lenses a year.

In 1990, after spinning off of a relationship with VEB Carl Zeiss, the company was unable to attract investors and liquidated. But in 2014, net SE along with brand manager Globell B.V. bought the name and exhibited new lenses at the Photokina trade show. In 2015, the company launched a Kickstarter for a new Trioplan 50mm f/2.9.

That Kickstarter was wildly successful and raised $683,801. Despite this, all was not well at the company. Geoff Livingston, a market and founder of Livingston Campaigns, joined Meyer Optik as a contractor to help with that campaign. He was also tapped to launch the Trioplan 100 Kickstarter, but departed the company after he saw some warning signs that bothered him.

In an interview with PetaPixel, he revealed that the company was working to launch the Trioplan 100 before successfully delivering on the Trioplan 50.

“We literally were dealing with complaints about not receiving the 100 while pushing the 50. Not ideal from a PR perspective, but we were told that the company had to launch the Kickstarter. I think the campaign suffered a bit from that,” Livingston told PetaPixel.

Livingston's gut was right, and the Meyer Optik Görlitz brand owner net SE was revealed to be in serious trouble in August of 2018. The company delisted its shares from the over-the-counter market in Germany and filed for bankruptcy.

Anyone who backed the original successful Kickstarter but did not receive a product simply lost their money.

Today, the collapse of the company is described as what "looks very much like an illegal ponzi pyramid scam" on Wikipedia. What was once a storied, respected lens brand was seriously tarnished by net SE's business decisions. While many photographers believed that Meyer Optik Görlitz was a larger company with many employees and vast production capabilities, in reality, it was a tiny operation with only a handful of people and was only one of several vintage lens brands under the net SE umbrella.

In 2019, it was confirmed that the net SE was selling cheaper Chinese lenses that were simply rebranded with the Meyer Optik Görlitz name, which further tarnished the brand.

After the collapse of net SE, Meyer Optik Görlitz was purchased by OPC Optics, who acquired the rights to the brand in 2018 and announced plans to bring its products back to market. OPC Optics intended to reboot the brand at Photokina 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic eventually led to the cancelation of that show. Photokina would later shut down indefinitely.

Representatives for the company say that it has since completely rebuilt the entire structure of the brand, including the portfolio of products. The result is that the company is known as Meyer Optik Görlitz GmbH and is based in Bad Kreuznach. Meyer Optik Görlitz GmbH will operate independently, alongside its sister companies OPC Optics GmbH and PPO Pfeiffer Präzisionsoptik GmbH and under the umbrella of a common parent company. The transition to organizational and administrative independence is to be completed by the end of the year.

"After almost 3 years of hard and intensive work, we are very happy to have laid the foundation for an independent Meyer Optik Görlitz GmbH and to be able to put it on its own feet" Timo Heinze, Managing Director of the new Meyer Optik Görlitz GmbH now says. "After we, under the umbrella of OPC Optics, developed the brand's portfolio and established sales structures, the time has now come for Meyer Optik Görlitz to step out of the shadows as a 'real' company and operate independently on the market."

The company says that it plans to launch a Trioplan 35 II, Biotar 58 II, and Biotar 75 II by the fourth quarter of 202. It will also expand the portfolio of lenses with classic models. Additionally, the company says new products are already in the works, so more new launches can be expected next year.

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