Soap Bubble King: Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm F2.8 Review
Sharpness is the most important factor of modern lenses as the pixel density of the sensor in digital cameras becoming higher and higher. With digital correction and good sharpness, the image captured by the camera become more perfect than ever. Is getting the perfect image our only requirement? Table Of Contents ✓ Introduction More than thirty years after Taylor Taylor invented the Cooke Triplet lens in England, Hugo Meyer & Co. in Görlitz Germany also began to manufacture and sell its Cooke Triplet lens series “Trioplan”. Here is the 1930 Lens Catalog from Meyer showing the details of the Trioplan lens series. Hugo Meyer Catalog (1930) p.8 In the beginning, the Trioplan lenses are made for 16mm and 35mm cine cameras, with focal length ranging from 15mm to 8¼”. The catalog mentioned the lens correction has been carried out for astigmatism, color and spherical aberration. By 1938, the aperture of the Trioplan series was standardized to F2.8, except for the Trioplan F2.5 made fo...