SLRmagic lens update (with new 12mm fast lens coming)
The SLRmagic company sent me a new email to say they will soon release more new Micro Four Thirds lenses. The next lens should be a fast 12mm prime.They didn’t told me how fast but I hope that it will come as close as possible to the Avenir CCTV Lens (Click here to see it on eBay) which has a f/1.2 aperture. Reminder: All those SLRmagic lenses are cheap-quality non-professional manual lenses. But they are cheap and do have a Micro Four Thirds mount (there is no need for adapter). If you are looking for a professional wide angle lens you should go for the new Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 pancake or wait for the next Olympus wide-pancake lens which will be announced during the next few months!
P.S.: Currently there are two SLRmagic lenses on eBay (Sold by the producer)
35mm f/1.7 (Click here)
26mm f/1.4 “Toy” Lens (Click here)
Chris K.
3 years ago |Here’s hoping the 12mm will have “TOY LENS” on the front like the 26mm…I received notice that mine has shipped. Looking forward to taking pics with it!
mochapaulo
3 years ago |Quite a surprise…that’s almost no 12mm CCTV lens possible to cover m4/3 sensor. If the answer is yes, that might be the only one I would like to buy from this company. Or simply say, it is not a CCTV at all…
rUY
3 years ago |C-mount lens needs to be at least 25mm to cover the sensor of M43…. and 35mm or above for NEX
ulugeyik
3 years ago |Yes, in fact the CCTV lens that is mentioned on ebay says:
“*Note: Cannot use on M4/3 cameras”
how bad is the coverage though?
admin
3 years ago |Hi ulugeyik! You might don’t know that you can buy an adapter to use C-mount lenses on MFT cameras. The problemis the huge vignetting you get using that lenses. So as you see this is not bad coverage…you are simply wrong
P.S.: Search for C-mount lenses on youtube and you will find plenty of GH1 video taken with those lenses!
außerirdische sind gesund
3 years ago |Admin, I am usually of your opinion, but here I think you underestimate the problem: Coverage of a lens usually goes up with focal length. It is very easy to build a 50mm that covers m43, and really hard to do this with a 12, 10 or 9mm lens.
If you read the specs of these lenses, they typically start
covering m43 at around 25mm. Shorter lenses are typically intended for much much smaller CCTV sensors.
admin
3 years ago |Yes, that’s why I wrote that there is a huge Vignetting. We posted a few video samples on 43rumors like here for example: http://www.43rumors.com/the-need-for-fast-video-lenses-cosmicarcanontokina-12-5-75mm-f1-8/
So the lens is de facto almost unuseable at the wide end.
mochapaulo
3 years ago |There is a company called Doctor Optics in German. It makes a 8mm f/2.8 lens with 21mm image circle that almost cover m4/3 sensor. However, it costs 900 EURO each and is made by order. If you really need an wide angle, I think the 7-14mm zoom is already good enough for your desire of ultra wide. What I still wonder is will SLRmagic still selling “cheapo” lens, as usual. I really can’t wait to see it.
jskbokeh
3 years ago |My SLRmagic 26mm f1.4 “Toy Lens” arrived yesterday!! Time so far to take a few sample images with Lumix G1.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33985467@N02/sets/72157625591000221/with/5310325973/