Meyer Optik Görlitz Announces the Hand-Assembled Trioplan 35mm f/2.8 II Lens
With the Trioplan 35mm f/2.8 II Meyer Optik Görlitz releases the third focal length of the famous Trioplan series. As of today – the sixth lens from Meyer Optik Görlitz can be ordered in the usual Meyer Optik mount versions.
“We are very pleased to now be able to introduce the Trioplan 35 II and are starting very positively into a new and hopefully more normal, year,” said Timo Heinze, Managing Director OPC Optics. “After we started with our new manufactory in Hamburg last quarter, the Trioplan 35 II is the first lens that will be manufactured there from the beginning.”
The Trioplan 35 f2.8 II brings the famous Trioplan bokeh, also known as soap bubble bokeh, to the wide-angle range. This allows amazing effects to be created, especially at open aperture, giving your own images an individual artistic style and recognition value. Of course, when stopped down, the Trioplan 35 f2.8 II can also create quieter, particularly atmospheric images, flattering the main subject with a very softly drawn blur plane that almost looks painted. The compact 35mm focal length is of course perfect for use in reportage and street photography. At the same time, the short minimum object distance of 0.2 meters, despite the short focal length, allows it to be used in nature and portrait photography. Thus, the Trioplan 35 f2.8 II offers a high degree of versatility and a great deal of creative freedom.
The consistent implementation of the newly developed mechanical design, which all current lenses from Meyer Optik Görlitz have received, has of course also been continued for the new Trioplan 35 f2.8 II. The mechanical components from German manufacturers, the use of the best optical glass, which receives a specially developed coating and is manufactured in-house, the assembly by hand in our own factory, and the individual testing of each lens, ensure the high quality & durability that distinguishes the lenses from Meyer Optik Görlitz.
Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Meyer Optik says that the short supply of raw materials has made it so that it is only able to supply the desired lenses based on confirmed incoming orders. While a large number of lens bodies have been made, the final camera mount is not assembled to them until an order is placed.
The company says that although this results in a slightly longer delivery time (about three weeks from the order date, although the website currently says 30 days), over and under-producing is avoided and the company says it can fulfill demand more precisely.
The lens is available in 11 total mounts: Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony E, Leica L, Fuji X, Micro Four Thirds, Pentax K, Nikon Z, and Canon RF. The Meyer Optik Görlitz Trioplan 35mm f/2.8 II is available to order immediately from the company directly in the 11 aforementioned lens mount options for €899.00, or about $1,000.
The company says that next on its agenda two true classics, the Biotar 58 f1.5 II and the Biotar 75 f1.5 II, are currently in series production and will expand the portfolio this spring. Likewise, the other existing lenses will be successively expanded to include variants for Nikon Z and Canon RF. In parallel, new lenses are in planning/development and will be released later this year.
More info on Meyer Optik Görlitz’ website.
