Image Courtesy Reinhard (Pen and tell)
Kowa announced yesterday that they will be making the 350mm f/4, 500mm f/5,6 and 850mm f/9,6 telephoto lenses for MicroFourThirds!
A suggestion: Make a MicroFourThirds version of the [shoplink 16501]Kowa 67mm f1.2 lens (Click here to see it on eBay)[/shoplink]…That would be an interesting lens!
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Hell yea! Make that 67mm f1.2 with autofocus and I’m sold :).
That 1.2/67 would be a toy lens to me :
“Please note that the lens has no variable aperture or focus! Its aperture is fixed at f/1.2. Its focus distance is fixed at about 0.4m (1.3 feet) from the camera, 0.25m (10 inches) from the front lens. The lens thus is mainly suitable for close-up photography. The lens itself gives about 1/4 life-size. Higher magnification is possible by adding extension tubes/extenders (not included). There is no electrical contact on the mount. “
That’s due to the fact that the lens is simply a Canon EF mount glued to a slide projector lens. So I won’t take it as a benchmark for a “regular” Kowa lens. š
Oh well. I was under the impression it was a ‘regular’ lens. No use for a fixed aperture.
i’ll go for the 850 mm……
Is suspect these lenses at such low prices cannot be autofocus ones. Am I right?
Wow, surely won’t fit in my pocket š
Please don’t let this be like the fixed aperture Sigma 500mm mirror lenses and the like… Sounds like they might just slap an adapter on those cheap $100 mirror lenses and call it a day… š and of course no auto-focus.
For video we need decent lenses for the MFT system. f2.8 and 12mm zoomable at least with AF an IS. How else should one get a shallow DOF look and/or a proper wide angle lens. 24mm to around 70 equivalent is what I need. 14-140 f4? 28 is not wide enough, f4 is not fast enough, 280 is too long for handheld or shoulder support video.
What about AF and IS? Shouldn’t you provide that info? No? I see.
Manual focus, see dpreview link:
“If you’re into digiscoping, KOWA will be known to you as a manufacturer of high quality spectives.
They have announced to introduce 350 f/4, 500 f/5,6 and 850 f/9,6 telephoto lenses, that can be adapted to mFT mount.
The lenses consist of flourite crystal, have two seperate focus drives for quick manual focussing and a four digit price tag (according to Reinhard Wagner of oly-e.de).”
Wonderful. It would be good idea, to read the first source:
http://pen-and-tell.blogspot.com.
There’s a sample source made with the Kowa-Lens too…
It’s good to see a telephoto lens can also be used as a telescope, usually it’s the other way round. Will look for comments on birdforum about this for sure. Hopefully they introduce decent eyepieces for it.
Uhmm… kindly stop making suggestions for every fast lens to be converted/adapted to m4/3.
It’s getting really stupid now… it’s like an old joke being repeated again and again.
500mm f/5,6 in combination with the 2x crop factor = 1000mm 35mm-equivalent field of view – could be interesting for some birders.
Wish they stayed wit normal four thirds, hate those pen camera’s.
Gonna swap to Nikon in about a few months.