SLR Magic 10mm T2.1 on GH4 4K World premiere, the very 1st shots from Seb Farges on Vimeo.
Seb farges posted this first video made with the brand new SLR Magic 10mm T2.1 Micro Four Thirds lens and he writes:
My very first impressions : solid, heavy (420g), compact, sharp at full aperture T2.1, only 2cm minimum focus distance.
The ND filter : good first impressions, and two great options on it : lever and hard stop ! Perfect for video !
The press release of the new lens can be read here at 43rumors.
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Bordeaux?
Yes !
I really want a 10mm rectilinear prime like this, but I want AF! Come on Panasonic/Olympus! 12mm isn’t wide enough, 8mm is too wide and too much work in post to make rectilinear, 7-14 is too slow. A 10mm f2.0 or f2.8 with AF would be my dream wide prime for four thirds. If the rokinon wasn’t a giant full frame lens, I’d probably already have one.
I must admit the image quality seen in this video does make alot of good arguments for the slrmagic lens. Maybe they’ll catch me, if they price it right…
Have you tried the 8 mm fisheye on m43? How did you adapt it? I presume that’s what you’re referring to. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.
I mean the Panasonic 8mm fisheye, which is native m43. I find a fisheye interesting to tinker with, but difficult to make art rather than novelty shots. I like a wide prime for architecture and landscape, as well as indoors candids, but I prefer it to be rectilinear already, over defishing the image from a fisheye and cropping. It’s also easier to compose when you know the final crop, instead of shooting wide and guessing with a fisheye.
Fisheyes certainly have their place(just not much in my current shooting habits). If i was an underwater shooter, I’d consider the 8mm or 7-14 must have equipment. I can also see a videographer looking to have a truly versatile toolbelt throwing down for the Panasonic fisheye, though the video version of the rokinon might actually be better for video if one prefers MF and smooth manual aperture control. If I ever buy a fisheye for my kit it will probably be the rokinon, not the Panasonic. I wouldn’t use it enough to justify spending twice as much just for AF.
As to the 4/3rds 8mm fisheye from Oly, I’ve never used it, even back when I had a 4/3rds kit. I’m sure it would be usable with an adapter, with marginal AF performance on all but the EM-1, where it would be at whatever level abover marginal the EM-1 is. I don’t have one yet, so can’t say for sure about the 4/3rds lens handling differences on the em1…
I see you point about the difficulty of anticipating the change in projection when using a fisheye for wide-angle shots. That and the additional workflow complications are a real problem. But the UWA situation is pretty desperate in m43! And shots from a fisheye (like from any other lens) can be re-projected not only to rectilinear, but also to other projections that may be friendlier to super-wide angles, like Panini.
Nevertheless, we really need a decent, fast UWA. That and super-telephotos are the most obvious holes in the otherwise dense m43 lens line-up. I’m afraid Olympus will consider the job done with the upcoming 7-14/2.8.
Agreed. At this point, we don’t need to see any more “even faster” options for focal lengths that are already well covered. The normal focal range is covered superbly, it’s time to work on the wide and telephoto ends, for sure.
The Olympus 7-14 2.8 sounds like a great lens to me. But I really prefer the price/performance of a wide prime. I suspect the 7-14 2.8 is going to run much higher than I’d like to spend on my wide option. I plan on preordering the 40-150 2.8 as soon as it’s available, because it will live on my camera 50% of the time, and allow me to ditch some very heavy manual focus legacy glass. I just don’t think I’ll get that much use out of the 7-14 to justify spending what they’re likely to want for it. I already kind of feel that way about the Panasonic 7-14…
Maybe you can make a compromise in one of the wishes? Untill your dream comes tru that is I mean, a prime 10mm AF is not too much asked I think.
looks nice, but even at this focal length, camera shake and jello is obviously a problem shooting handheld.
the reason why many cinematographers choose to adapt IS Canon glass. best of both worlds, mechanical mf and IS=better results.
not sure if yuo like to adept with limits but jello with camera movements is up the the enthusiasm of a hyper videographer and shake with wideangle with video stabilisation is less of an issue, so no need to mention a brand in particular.its totaly up to the one who makes it.
Seb, an interesting article providing some background about the headdress appropriation: http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/jul/30/why-the-fashion-headdress-must-be-stopped
A bunch a hypocritical politically correct BS.
Indeed.
Yep, just as I thought; until I read a bit more.
Performance looks excellent. This one has definitely lobbed on my radar. Eagerly awaiting more examples as well as those of the new Kowa.
The Kowa 8.5mm will p*ss all over this. I’ll wait.
Not so sure about it ! 🙂 And the price will be 1380USD, not 799USD 😉