Another Kickstarter German lens campaign!

Kent said:
The company behind the rebirth of Meyer made some marketing mistakes when they started some years ago. Rebranding Asian and Russian lenses is surely nothing they are proud of today, but those late models which are built in Germany are really good.

I do have the Primoplan 1.9/75 (Nikon) and that is an amazing piece of glass!

Of course, everybody is free to reject their system and refrain from buying from them but we should be fair when it comes to judging their products. Try them first, then grade them.
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+1.

Talked last year to a photographer who used the 1.5/85 Meyer-Görlitz, and he was very happy with the performance of the lens.

Last year in Hamburg there happened a film photography event called "Die analoge Fotografie lebt" ("Analogue Photography is alive"). An event with lectures, workshops and visiting of photograhy companies like labs, camera dealers and repair companies.
And one company which opened its doors was one of the biggest (or probably the biggest) German camera and lens repair company: Rüdiger Maerz
http://www.fotomaerz.de/
They do not only complicated repairs, they also do special manufacturing on demand.

And they are now even in the lens producing business:
They have "Reinräume" (clean, dust-free room) to assemble lenses. They also have all the sophisticated tools for lens alignenment and calibration (necessary also for lens repairs).
And they indeed assemble some of the new Meyer-Görlitz lenses. That was demonstrated to the visitors.
And they told them that most of the lens parts are really made in Germany, and only a minor part of the lens parts is from other European countries.

Cheers, Jan
 
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