MS Optics on Film

[Karlovak]

Nice shots yorda. Crazy aftermarket prices on these lenses. I assume it's the exclusivity shaping them. How much were these going new?

 

[yorda]

Hey! Thanks!

Don't really remember for the perar but i think i paid less than 600€ for the Perar. and i bought the Apoqualia (black paint version) for a little more than 1100€... Doesn't seem to expensive for me...

 

[FalseDigital]

....as one particular dealer at the time seemed to think he had an exclusive arrangement with Miyazaki-san. Something must have gotten lost in translation between them as Miyazaki-san certainly didn't think so, and he was taking on new dealers left, right, and center soon after...

Ahaha...I can guess who that might be ��

 

[jamin-b]

A couple of samples from a recent trip of the 28mm Perar on a Leica CL, Rollei 400S, HC-110 semistand:
July18_Rollei400S_HC_CL_Perar28mm_7 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr

July18_Rollei400S_HC_CL_Perar28mm_28 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr

 

[aizan]

what kind of skillset and capital does it take to manufacture lenses like miyazaki does? you read about nikon starting out in a garage and you get ideas.

 

[jonmanjiro]

what kind of skillset and capital does it take to manufacture lenses like miyazaki does? you read about nikon starting out in a garage and you get ideas.

Miyazaki-san used to work for a toy manufacturer in Japan where he designed microscopes and telescopes. When he retired, he started designing his own lenses and got his parts manufactured by the same suppliers he used when still working for the toy manufacturer, with him doing the assembly work on that bench pictured above. He started with small lots of just 200 lenses, and slowly built up the volumes. A few years ago I heard he was thinking of getting the assembly done by a company in China, so I'm not sure if if he still does it that way.

As for Nikon starting out in a garage, that internet myth has always puzzled me. Nikon was formed by an amalgamation of several smaller optics companies in 1917 as a government initiative to make Japan self sufficient for its military-related optics requirements. After WW2, the occupation forces prohibited Nikon from making military equipment, so in 1948 they started making film cameras & lenses at the Nikon 101 building, which was built in 1933. This building was one of just a few concrete buildings in Tokyo when it was built and was considered an example of very modern architecture at the time. As you can see, its a wee bit bigger than a garage. It survived the fire bombing of Tokyo in WW2, only to be demolished last year.

Photo from 1933

Nikon F production line in this building in the early 1960s

 

[bayernfan]

nice work yorda, thanks for sharing! enjoying all these submissions.

 

[yorda]

Thanks you Bayernfan!
Here is some more.

With the Perar

And with the Sonnetar, this one was difficult to use! And the focus at F1.1 was...hard to find =)

 

[John inglis]

Great thread, need to scan some sonnetar 50 shots from Berlin

 

[yorda]

35 Apoqualia

 

[Savid]

Does anyone have the 17 perar? Im considering it, and quite interested in pictures taken with it, and opinions on it.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

35mm f/3.5 Perar, on TMX pushed 2 stops:

Can't say I like the 35/1.4 at all from the pics above. The Perar is a great lens to fit my M6 in a small pocket. That and an Elmar 50/3.5 is about as small a kit as you can get.

......unless you go to a LTM body like the ii or iii .....

 

[bayernfan]

by no means a great picture, but I felt guilty for never posting anything. still have tons of film to scan.

This is the Perar 35/3.5 on Acros.

 

[Pioneer]

A River Runs Through It

Sonnetar 50/1.1

 

[Kai-san]

Zeiss Ikon ZM / MS-Optical Perar 3.5/35 MC Super Triplet II / Frontier 125D