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If you are mad for speed there is nothing better than get the newly updated Speedmaster 50mm f/.095 “Dark Knight” edition that is for the first time in Stock via Hong Kong sellers on eBay:
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And it will ship soon at BHphoto (Click here) too.
As reported before these are the improvements of the new version:
1. Improved lens coating, which makes the lens have better performance
2. Filter thread changed to 67mm from 58mm
3. New bayonet lens hood to prevent light flare and improve “back light “s situation performance.
And here is the first unboxing video of the enw Speedmaster Dark Knight edition:
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I wonder: does this lens have a control chip for communicating with the body (like EXIF, f-stop,…)?
If so, it is a considerable lens. If not, it’s just for toying around.
So all those using their Leica glass on the A7 series must be “toying around”, huh?
Exactly. If there are people who attach a Leica lens on a NEX body then they ARE toying around. Serious Leica lens users would attach the Leica lens on a Leica body. And in this case the Leica lens would communicate with the body perfectly.
Would the fact that it ‘communicates with the body perfectly’ make them take better pictures?
Definitely. Same way like any better tool improves your work.
How does transferring EXIF data necessarily improve my work? If we’re talking about ‘better tools’ there are a number of reasons to precisely choose an A7 OVER a Leica rangefinder, depending on your needs and priorities.
I think you are looking at it backwards: If you put a Leica lens on a nex yo uprobably do it to enhance the possibilities from the camera. You seem to insinuate that you are using a bad body on a lens, when you in fact are using a good lens on a body. Not everyone can affort a Leica, and more importantly: not everyone want to use a rangefinder.
You don’t enhance the capabilities of the camera or the lens. You are diminuishing it, because they are not compatible with each others functional interface. The Leica lens would offer aperture control and maybe also EXIF on a Leica body, both doesnt offer any of that on an E-mount adapter. The NEX body would offer AF, Aperture control and EXIF recording but doesn’t any of these in combination with a Leica lens. So where is the improvement? If you are using a NEX body do yourself a favor and take a full functional E-mount lens!
Are you talking about a Leica lens that is 6-bit encoded or the vast majority of Leica lenses that are not?
I don’t agree. Leica lenses are all manual anyway. The only things communication with body does are giving EXIF and auto-correction of vignetting, which are easily done in post and not necessary in the first place.
You missed the point here. Think of aperture control.
Leica lenses have manual aperture control. What point did I miss?
Because no one ever did any serious photography until lenses started communicating with the camera body… SMH
Aperture control is a standard since 50 years, Even my grandfathers film roll Practica had that feature in long gone times. I doubt you ever had a camera system in hands that is not able to be operated like that. Oh wait.. no: You might use a NEX with some Samyang lens….
Aperture control is something totally separate from exif data. You do know that, right?
I hope you are aware that both is coming by the same control chip, aren’t you? FYI: above I wrote …like EXIF, f-stop…. F-stop control is the same as aperture control. 😉
The aperture control ring on my Nikkors would seem to disagree with you on the NEED for a control chip to be there, but that’s ok. EXIF data would be nice, but control of the aperture from the camera body is neither here nor there when it comes to creating a picture. If your ability to take create an image relies on EXIF data, or the ability to change the aperture from the camera body rather than the lens, then perhaps you need to take up a less challenging hobby 😉
The fact that some Nikkors offer a physical aperture ring has no impact on the control mechanism. Nikon just implements both aperture control mechanisms in the pro bodies: mechanical and electronic. Inside the body the mechanical mechanismus is directed to the electronic control which actually does the controlling of aperture. The function of aperture control is not a convenience issue, but it allows the camera and the photographer to operate at full light intensity, which gives better and more accurate control for all measurements, while the lens just stops down for the actual exposure time. That is one of the key technology achievements that have been done in the early sixties of last century.
And EXIF is not a convenience feature either. Together with IPTC data it is the key technology for managing pictures in libraries.
You see, there is a lot you would need to learn young friend before you go into discussion with me.
Again, you’re missing the point, Those items ARE convenience items, as their presence or absence does not prevent a photographer from creating an image. The fact that you fail to see this says a lot about you. When you understand this, please feel free to come back and discuss it with me, young friend 😉
Oh yes, in the end _everything_ is just convenience. With that argument you should quickly go back to the old box hole camera with a silverplate. All that technology and even a lens at all is just convenience. The true photographer needs nothing of these!
But the difference is that having EXIF data and aperture control in the camera body DO NOT improve a photograph. If you have two camera systems that are identical in every aspect, apart from one having access to EXIF data and controlling the aperture from the body, and the other not, you will get exactly the same exposure when they are set to the same settings for ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and focus. You are claiming that those extra features will magically help you create a better photo, and that is, of course, completely untrue. Make your workflow faster and image library management easier? Definitely. Improve the image? Absolutely not!
I consider this lens much more interesting than the new Loxia (what a stupid name) from zaiss.
hey at least it’s not named after a bird
It is still named after a bird. Try googling “Loxia”. 🙂
Dark Knight being such an improvement… I await the catwoman version with eager anticipation.
Night Hawk and Snow Owl will be released soon, too 🙂
I, for one, would be very interested in a lens called Catwoman.
What?
I want an Alfred that is kinda slow and whiny but takes and processes all the photos for me.
yeah ‘dark knight’ sounds much more manly than ‘loxia’. its the perfect lens for you 😀
And it’s cheaper. An average double gauss 50/2 at this price should already be made in Germany, though I know it’s still Cosina made. Declick for video? Anybody who actually has a use for declick and MF in video wouldn’t care in the least about a centimeter or two of lens length, they already have all the choices they would need with adapters and legacy lenses. Besides I remember that this Speedmaster also has a declicked aperture. Not color-matched? No problem, who said that the Loxias would be color-matched?
At first I thought that the 50/2 would at least come with an integrated hood looking at the leaked photo, but turns out it’s still sold separately. I have a feeling Zeiss is going to fail miserably. It looks confused and has lost it’s sense of direction.
The hood and key for declick are included with the lens read the in box description.
b&h give you the price of the items if you want to buy a spare.
So the hood isn’t integrated? At least it’s included, Zeiss could charge a lot for a hood.
the speedmaster clicks at full stops
Then the prototype should have been without clicks.
You know why it’s cheaper? Because it’s really soft wide open and takes a few stops to clear up. You get what you pay for. By the way, design is more important than place of manufacturing.
That bad? I’ve seen many samples and really don’t think it’s that bad. In fact it looks pretty sharp in the center wide open. I bet it’s very much comparable to the Loxia 50/2 at f/2.
Don’t you get it? It’s not about what’s “important”, it’s about whether or not you see where your money is going. If the Loxia was made in Germany, you immediately get why such a slow and basic prime costs so much( besides it’s good for the glass), likewise if it had a very complex design with many special elements, rare for a Zeiss. Right now, even in the “important” aspect, you only see an average design decades old, perhaps slightly tweaked from an ZM. So the price is probably due to both Zeiss and Cosina taking a bite at you, so your money would be better spent on Voigtlanders, Cosina’s in-house designs. Or of course, this Mitakon.
one of the worst unboxing videos. he thinks that he is putting the lens in front of the video camera, but seems he is putting it in front of the LCD
But great soundtrack. So exciting.
Do we know the transmission, as opposed to the aperture?
[I’m a low light guy, not a shallow focus guy/]
I would like to know that too. I use the Nikkor 50mm 1.2, but that seems to be closer to t1.4 (so more than a f1.4 would be, but only just)
Mx camera video is perhaps one of the worst I have seen. Why is the camera focused on the mat while the lens is being introduced outside of the frame?
What’s with the stupid white boxes that show up in the videos.. worst unboxing video I’ve seen in a long time..
Have you tried hovering your mouse over them?
I already have it .. It’s pretty heavy but also very well built .. Very nice lens btw if you don’t mind manual focus and aperture
Is it weather sealed? I’m guessing not… :-/
No it’s not :/
But they usually send it wraped in small a plastic bag 🙂
If you use it with this bag it would be weather sealed 😀
Never underestimate the ability of a plastic bag for weather sealing! 🙂
Do you know, whether these lenses will be presented at Photokina? I could not find a booth for either Mitakon or Zhongyi…
what can you expect from a Chinese manufacturer that you type in Google and the first results only shows references to it, but no official source?
Is this lens really “f/.095”?? That is AMAZING!