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12 Responses
The price is very very high for a 50 mm f/1,4 manual focus lens.
If it’s sharp and detailed at f1.4 with good bokeh than its worth it! I have the canon and nikon version of the 50mm f1.4 and it’s way too soft and crappy wide open.
Samyang (the maker of this lens) has reaveald a small video shot whith
this lens, i did some framegrabs and my conclusion is that its not a
great bokeh lens, its verry busy looking.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1253/1249/original.jpg
the video can be found here http://vimeo.com/104386831
Just watched the video and yep it is as soft as my nikon so i guess ill be keeping the nikon and getting it declicked and focus gears glued on. Suck a shame they didn’t release it for $250 or at least quality as good as their other lenses.
i cannot judge sharpness from a 2MP video, i’ll wait until the reviews come out. (maybe ill even go to photokina to test the myself)
online footage is not the best way to test but on my 27″ imac i can see that its not good enough already. i shoot everything in 4k but im not at the point where i can spend $5k per lens so ill have to deal for now until sigma starts making cine lenses (next few months hopefully?)
very subjective, Did you ever check the socalled bokeh of cinema productions ? both smooth and funky bokeh are higly usable depending on the scene
The price is very low for a 50mm f/1.4 geared Cinema lens.
Worth noting that this isn’t a ‘real’ cinema lens, just a converted standard SLR lens. Not that there is anything wrong with that per se, but you could have the same results by sending in any manual 50/1.4 in to a shop for a cine-conversion. Unless this is optically quite spectacular, it seems a bit steep.
I’m aware that it isn’t built from the ground up as a cinema lens, but they do quite well. Judging from their recent releases, this should perform very well (better than the typical and cheap 50mm f/1.4) and there are no “shops” that will perform such a procedure for cheap anyway. You can do it yourself, if you’re brave. Never mind it won’t come with a warranty. For me, it’s not worth the hassle.
Then there are some companies that charge you a ridiculous premium for a “cine” version of a regular still lens. Just look at the Duclos lenses and even worse, Tokina’s Cine zooms. Compared to the competition, the Samyang/Rokinon lenses are an absolute bargain.
f1.5 x 1/4 of the sensor = A Tail Of Fail
50mm T1.5 isn’t bad at all when it has DOF of f/1.4 and angle of view equivalent to 20° on small format.