The brand new Rokinon XEEN T/1.5 FE lenses got a massive price drop at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) or BHphoto (Click here). Each lens got $300 off and if you buy all three you save even more…$1,500 (here at Amazon).
One more crazy thing: Mirrorlessrumors spotted a [shoplink 40553 ebay]200mm f/1.0 lens on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. It sells for $387,000!!!!!!!!! But I don’t know if you can actually use it on an E-mount camera…
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30-day returns… Maybe a try? :p
Germanium, not glass. It’s for longwave IR (thermal)
Yeah makes me wonder how well it focuses visible wavelengths.
Visible light will not pass through it at all. IR only.
Probably not well… blue and green likely out. Also no idea about the image circle… maybe aps-c.
Really? The mount could be removed and the rear element is huge so I thought at least 645. But this is just an uneducated guess…
As far as I know thermal imaging is done using sensors, and even modern ones are very low res, small in size and are very expensive. I can’t imagine one in 6×45 size unless it was a line sensor which is also unlikely. The lens also looks like a telephoto, so the image circle will likely be smaller than what the size of the lens suggests.
Newer IR lenses often have special IR glass instead of germanium
And long wave IR can’t be captured with normal sensors, so it’s mostly useless to anyone wanting to use it on their cameras.
Ooooow 1500 off, not 1500 for the three of them
This is one of those deals that you’d have to be crazy NOT to buy, too bad I’m off my meds
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Might be a typo on the eBay listing as Abex UK lists the lens at “Net Price £24950.” Or perhaps they’re hoping some insane ebayer will pay 10X list. Heh.
http://www.abex.co.uk/esales/optical/taylor_hobson/thermal-lens/200f1/45804-1/index.php
Are these XEEN lenses like 100 times better than the budget primes I bought? I would expect more than synchronized cine gears, improved coatings and metal construction. What’s the real diff between them all? No breathing, hard coated front elements, extra scales? I’m a little clueless…
Well that’s crazy, somebody could do some creative IR photography with this, I’ve only seen IR landscape before but since this lens is so fast…
Landscape with f1.0? Right…
“since this lens is so fast”…I meant IR non-landscape. Maybe people will even stay still long enough for this.
http://forum.mflenses.com/userpix/20125/big_5152_DSC00493_1.jpg
Here’s a real 100mm f1.0. Not a thermal one. Covers Full-Frame too. (i own it)
$387,000? If they can sell this lens for that price, something is wrong with this world. This is totally beyond me.
This lens should come with Rokinon stock options.