SLRmagic needs your advice (50mm, 40mm, 12mm lens?)
As you know SLRmagic makes cheap quality and cheap priced m43 lenses based on current CCTV lens design (like the 26mm f/1.4 and 35mm f/1.7 lenses). Via Twitter they are asking m43 owners what kind of lenses they would like to be developed by the company. I thought it would be nice to help them by creating that poll:
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Comment from Edvaard Wu: The problem is that CCTV lenses vignette...
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Camajan
2 years ago |Nice of them to talk to buyers!:-)
Admin, why dont the shoplinks in your articles work on iPhone? Is it a Safari issue?
darrask
2 years ago |The poll would be more useful with price and image quality precisions. How much you pay depends on the quality you get.
I ticked the 40mm box but I would not pay for anything if the quality is not better than my old adapted 50mm F1.8 zuiko.
TR
2 years ago |There no way the quality will be the same as your 50/1.8 zuiko. This is totally different look. Low quality but fun. Cheap and small – a toy.
GEEEFF1
2 years ago |please 12mm with strong vignetting… and in form of a pancake like the pana 12mm (not that toy stlye)…
Milos Janata
2 years ago |Nice attitude. Great to see someone listening and trying to create products based on customer needs. I hope that some bigger company doesn’t buy them.
panasonic
2 years ago |these lens easily pawn of any kit lens. definitely a go for them!
Miroslav
2 years ago |12mm. Because of 2x crop of 4/3 sensor, plenty of legacy lenses are available in longer focal lengths. We need wides and we need them fast
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raptor_cZn
2 years ago |Was that pun intended? =D
Miroslav
2 years ago |Yeah
tmrgrs
2 years ago |SLR Magic doesn’t “make” lenses. They or he rebadges existing C-mount lenses and then doubles the price.
TR
2 years ago |Yea but those silicon rings are soooo cool!
Mr. Reeee
2 years ago |They’re called “Toy Lens” are not supposed to produce images like good quality legacy lenses. Rough and blurry is a feature.
From samples, I’ve seen the Toy 26mm looks like fun.
I vote for a 12mm.
It would be cool if they sold a kit of lenses and one M4/3 adaptor. So, you swap out lenses only, not have a M4/3 adaptor for every lens, as the adaptive are much wider than the lenses.
Jim Ramsey Khoury
2 years ago |AFAIK the 35mm isn’t marked as a toy lens and has more normal bokeh characteristics though it is still essentially a c-mount.
Jan Beeldrijk
2 years ago |The outcome is also a message to Panasonic. Why such a lousy lens policy, when SLRmagic just does an inelligent job: ask the customers.
I am aware of the toy & fun character of this proposal, and would be very happy with it.
Paulos Jonas
2 years ago |You can buy these lenses directly from security camera / alarm stores and websites for a 1/3 of the price.
You can also get some amazing fish-eye type lenses and zooms with very fast speeds.
I’m pretty sure all they’re doing is buying the stock that would traditionally go to the security stores / suppliers and then reselling them under a different brand and the guise of M4/3 lens.
I bought the current 26mm 1.4 that SLRM sell for $80 for $14.99 directly from a security store, and just picked up a very cheap c-mount adapter on ebay for $10. The most you’ll pay directly from the security stores is around $40.
I’m buying up different CCTV/Toy lenses now when the going is cheap.
tribalmedia
2 years ago |what security store website do you shop on please? thanks
Joost
2 years ago |I do not know of any existing 12mm c-mount lens that does not vignette so much that it becomes unusable. If you know any that I can buy know please let me know.
Wife
2 years ago |I wouldn’t buy anything from them. The components are on ebay for 1/3 of the price.
Jonathan
2 years ago |Wife, I’m just new to this c-mount thing.. I see a lot of variety on ebay, but I don’t know the difference or what to look for. Recommendations? Thank you.
Wife
2 years ago |Here’s a cheap one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/C-mount-Lens-Micro-4-3-adapter-E-P1-E-P2-G1-GF1-GH1-/110608113908?pt=Lens_Accessories&hash=item19c0c1e0f4#ht_3906wt_905
Plenty of others on ebay. Then if you look hard enough, there are combos of lens and adapter still for a cheap price:
http://cgi.ebay.com/35mm-F1-7-Lens-C-mount-G1-GF1-GH1-EP1-EP2-M43-adapter-/140498473736?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item20b65c9308#ht_500wt_1156
Notice these have free shipping whereas slrmagic charges you $29.
Ben
2 years ago |Link please?
mochapaulo
2 years ago |If you are open mind to any kind of vignetting, there are some CCTV lenses in 12.5mm or 16mm. I used to buy them to bid my luck and the result is both of them unable to cover the sensor. The boundary of the image circle is just reach the vertical side. You can only eliminate the black corner by cropping to 1:1.
I welcome the idea of making 12mm lens but the criteria is don’t try to fool us of duplicating a existing model with the same character I mentioned above. If so, why should I pay money for this? Vignetting might be fun but don’t accept any kind of disability as a selling point.
Duarte Bruno
2 years ago |Here comes the wide crowd (me included)!
BK
2 years ago |A super cheapo Series of 25′s that could mimic the look of the Hipstamatic lenses could be a winner.
Vajk
2 years ago |http://cgi.ebay.com/25mm-f-1-4-C-Mount-25mm-F1-4-Lens-Micro-M4-3-m-4-3-/120675714070?pt=Camcorder_Lenses&hash=item1c18d54416
25mm f/1.4 C Mount 25mm F1.4 Lens for Micro M4/3
US $27.95 and free shipping
arash
2 years ago |a 12 and a 40 for me please : )
Ben
2 years ago |I will not buy an SLR magic lens till they’re available from a US dealer. I want one but I do not want to order on ebay, have to pay 30 dollars for shipping, and then wait a month for it to get here. They need to actually get this thing in stores or on US sites.
tribalmedia
2 years ago |actually they offer free shipping & it takes like 7 days to get it! dont be ignorant!
Ben
2 years ago |Ummmm….not on the link that the admin posted here, and I haven’t seen the lens anywhere else. Do you know somewhere else selling it?
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9091/screenshot20110130at535.png
geronimus
2 years ago |a 12mm! with strong vignetting and bold colors. like the 24mm f1.9 on the rare Fuji Natura S… EPL2+12SLRm+20pana+45contaxG+90contaxG is in my recent dreams…
ben
2 years ago |why does the total percentage of votes add up to over 100%???
admin
2 years ago |because you can vote more than one lens.
Edvaard Wu
2 years ago |The problem is that CCTV lenses vignette.