Emitar/S 4,5/80 Review

Emitar/S 4,5/80 is an enlarger lens for medium format enlarger “Krokus-66 Color”. Produced in Poland. The manufacturer is PZO Warszawa. The lens is available in different versions and mountings. 

PZO Warszawa manufactures special optical instruments: microscopes, overhead projectors, binoculars, photographic enlargers, etc. Among lenses for photographic enlargers, I have met Mikar/S 4,5/55. It is for small-format photographic enlargers and Amar 4,5/105 - for large format. Janpol Color 5,6/80. Other lenses of this brand I have not seen. The optical design is Tessar, with 4 elements in 3 groups. 

The lens has a small size: 4 cm long and 42 mm diameter.

Aperture has 5 blades. Closes discrete and have a total of 5 points: 4,5-5,6-8-11-16. The lens has a budget constructive. In front of a lens, the hood is made in the form of a polygon, whereby the front lens is fitted with a 6 mm depth.

Emitar/S 4,5/80 Mounting to a DSLR Camera

The lens has a mount thread M42. I mount Emitar/S 4,5/80 on the Nikon camera by special homemade helicoid, small extension ring, and adapter M42-Nikon. When the focus range is from 2 m to infinity, if you want to focus on a close range, you need to put a middle extension ring in place, but it will not be infinity. With this homemade helicoid, the feeling is that this is a constructive native lens.

Emitar/S 4,5/80 Example Shootings

All of the examples captured on the camera Nikon D3100. Export from RAW without any post-processing.

f/ 4,5

f/ 5,6

f/ 5,6

The lens generally shows good quality. Sharpness is not exсellent, but enough for street scenes and portraits.

The color render is good. The lens is good to reproduce half-tones and nuanced colors.

f/ 4,5

f/ 4,5

f/ 4,5

Bokeh is nothing special.

f/ 4,5

f/ 4,5

f/ 4,5

f/ 4,5

f/ 4,5

Backlit afraid. Therefore, for shooting backlit unsuitable.

f/ 5,6

f/ 5,6

Summary

Emitar/S 4,5/80 a typical enlarger lens. Nothing unusual and special to expect from it. But it does not mean that it is not suitable for taking pictures.