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Re: EXTERNAL LINK: Owner Review of SLRMagic 50/0.95 posted in dpreview "Leica Talk"
We have repeat many times the lens is for cinema use originally. Spacecam contacted Leica for their Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 lens for use for cinematography. The M-mount is made but the Noctilux-M is scarce with a long waiting list so we were contacted if such a lens can be made. Our HyperPrime 50mm T0.95 lens is a CINE lens. What a CINE lens means is that it has no lens breathing, is calibrated to T stops, and has a clickless aperture with round aperture shape for smooth bokeh.
It is common that our lens performance is often compared with the 50mm f/1.4 Summilux ASPH. That is a very high performing photographic lens but it was not designed for cinematography. If you try to align the edge of the frame to the door with minimum focus for example, then try to focus all the way to infinity and back again, you will notice the position of the edge of the door drifts away due to change in size of the image. This is distracting for cinematographers and not good for filming. This is the lens breathing control that the HyperPrime is very good at that is hardly ever mentioned about. There is too much concentration on on details that users are annoyed about and no constructive discussion on lens performance on many forums.
Hopefully when the new Leica M is out there will be comments on the cinema performance with the HyperPrime 50mm T0.95 lens.
Firstly, we have been introducing high end lenses since 2 years ago before the 50mm T0.95 was introduced. As we are known for making Cinema lenses as well as Toy Lenses for 3 years now but for some reasons Leica users thought this was our first high end lens.As the company has replied, and we have their attention, I will repeat this statement: SLRMagic is a new company, introducing a high-end lens to compete with Leica. When Nikon did this in the 1940s, their camera -the Nikon I- and lenses were submitted to nationally recognized camera technician's for a "strip-down" report. Marty Forscher did the report, the rest is history.
We have repeat many times the lens is for cinema use originally. Spacecam contacted Leica for their Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 lens for use for cinematography. The M-mount is made but the Noctilux-M is scarce with a long waiting list so we were contacted if such a lens can be made. Our HyperPrime 50mm T0.95 lens is a CINE lens. What a CINE lens means is that it has no lens breathing, is calibrated to T stops, and has a clickless aperture with round aperture shape for smooth bokeh.
It is common that our lens performance is often compared with the 50mm f/1.4 Summilux ASPH. That is a very high performing photographic lens but it was not designed for cinematography. If you try to align the edge of the frame to the door with minimum focus for example, then try to focus all the way to infinity and back again, you will notice the position of the edge of the door drifts away due to change in size of the image. This is distracting for cinematographers and not good for filming. This is the lens breathing control that the HyperPrime is very good at that is hardly ever mentioned about. There is too much concentration on on details that users are annoyed about and no constructive discussion on lens performance on many forums.
Hopefully when the new Leica M is out there will be comments on the cinema performance with the HyperPrime 50mm T0.95 lens.