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The new Kowa Micro Four Thirds lenses will ship on February 6 and here are the first preorders on eBay:
12mm f/1.8 in [shoplink 50867 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 50868 ebay]Green (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 50869 ebay]Silver (Click here)[/shoplink].
25mm f/1.8 in [shoplink 50870 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 50871 ebay]Green (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 50872 ebay]Silver (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Neither of these lenses are very interesting.
What about the 8.5mm?
BINGO!
It’s also there: http://www.ebay.nl/itm/KOWA-PROMINAR-8-5mm-F2-8-Green-Super-Wide-Lens-for-Micro-Four-Thirds-Camera-F-S-/181645113031?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4ae476c7
I’m confused, looks like it ships from Japan, not Netherlands. Any chance to find that price for Europe?
I think 875 euros is really the price for europe. International shipping is free. Only added tax can be a bit disappointing…
25mm 1.8 manual focus for $780? Are you kidding me?
Right? Why not just buy a used Voigt f0.95 for that price if you want a nice manual 25mm. Or pick up a used/refurb’d Panny 25mm f1.4 for $400. I’m guessing these are cinema lenses, but I’m just not sure what this lens offers in that space over the Voigt. I can see it likely having better MF feel/action over the PL 25mm or the Oly 25, but not the Voigt that is MUCH brighter.
1000 bucks for the 12mm! YOU ARE ON CRACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you seen any distorsion on 8,5mm! samples? Neither did I…. Olympus 12mm is a one real wavy blues if you don’t use Lightroom.
But if one use Lightroom, is there then any point? Curious.
Still, 1K is full frame money.
The price is laughable
Of course I’ll buy a huge MF 25 mm 1,8 from a binocular company instead of a small, autofocusing Zuiko with the same specs and an excellent track record for half the price…
…or even Samyang which is half the price of Olympus and sharp as nails.
Leica?
I have dealt with the reseller. He is a good guy…bought my Nocticron from him. $1200. Sweet. He even included 2 little origami swans in the box! 🙂
Shipping was free and very reasonably fast…and trackable.
These are manual focus lenses, right? What do they offer that the existing lenses don’t?
If asking about manual focus lenses only, look at the incredible CV Nokton 25mm 0.95. These Kowa must have awesome IQ to justify, otherwise I agree, completely useless, if compared to the existing native af lenses: larger, heavier, same speed, more expensive, nonsense.
I don’t expect these to be inferior compared to the Noktons.
If these lenses are cinema-grade then the price is fine. But if they are intended for usage on set then I don’t understand why the focus ring isn’t properly geared for follow focus, but the aperture ring is. Am I missing something!?
Look forward to some reviews on these, although given the price/specs my eyes are still firmly focussed on picking up another beautiful Voigtlander.
That money would be waaaay better spent on the upcoming Olympus pro wide angle zoom in my world.
Kowa did a lot of cinema lenses in the past , the first of the last two star trek was shoot on Kowa anamorphic .
It was shot on PV C series anamorphics as far as I know.
Don’t recall Kowa lenses ever being mentioned in the American Cinematographer articles at the time.
I’ll take 3 of each please 🙂