15mm Prime, 85mm Prime

[Alexander Nikishin]

I guess my question is, how wide is 18mm really on the Red with a "red lens"?

The same as a Zeiss 18mm on a S35 film camera would be.

Go to your nearest film supply shop and check out a Mark V Director's Viewfinder if you need an example.

[David Mullen ASC]

The whole mm with field of view issue has really confused me with the Red. My understanding, was that because it was a 35mm sized chip, that the mm you see on the lens really should be the same mm "field of view" that you are use to with a 35mm camera. (of course, I have no experience because I am coming from the video world.)

A 35mm cine camera, not a 35mm still camera...

If you're used to shooting 2/3" CCD video with B4 mount lenses, the conversion factor is 2.5X, so a 7.5mm lens in 2/3" CCD would give you the same FOV of an 18mm on the RED/Super-35.

If you're used to shooting 1/3" CCD video, then it would be a 5X conversion, so 3.75mm would be the equivalent on a 1/3" CCD video camera as the 18mm on a RED camera.

In other words, 18mm is fairly wide-angle.

However, if you shoot in 2K windowed mode, then an 18mm is not so wide-angle.

[Eric MacIver]

I agree with the 15mm wider angle perhaps helping in windowed mode, and I'd love to see the 15mm stay as an available lens, but I'm just talking about having a matched set of lenses...

I also generally stay with longer lenses, and usually am using super speeds where the 18 is a bit softer than the 24mm. However, there are times (in tight spaces where I still need some degree of a master shot) where I need that wider lens, and I'd like to get the widest I can while matching the rest of my set.

If I'm also having to shoot wide open I'd hate to have to light to a 2.8 just because I am having to use the wide. Whereas I'd otherwise only have to do a 2.0.

[Nick Shaw]

That's no rumor, I without a doubt read "Made in the UK" stamped on the bottom end of the 18-50 shown at NAB.

I wonder if that means that there is any possibility of those of us who live in the UK receiving our lenses without them making a return trip to the US – thus saving on import duty (if applicable) and maybe delivery costs?

[Costelloe Michael]

Nick,

Do you have a notion of which manufacturer could cooke up such a lense? Sorry for the typo! It does however beg the question of how any company could make these high quality lenses so cheaply... economies of scale?

[Stephen Williams]

Nick,

Do you have a notion of which manufacturer could cooke up such a lense? Sorry for the typo! It does however beg the question of how any company could make these high quality lenses so cheaply... economies of scale?

Hi,

AFAIK there is only 1 lens manufacture in the UK. Economics of scale would be the answer IMHO.

Stephen

[Finner]

Stephen which one is this? Cooke & ziess are german made, right? I don't know of any UK lense manufacture plant?

[Sanjin Jukic]

QUOTE:
"In 2002, the first Cooke lens made for large format photography in 50 years is designed and made in Leicester.
The new Cooke Portrait PS945 lens for 4x5 format photography is a modern reproduction of the vintage
Pinkham & Smith Company's Visual Quality Series IV lens. The first lens of its type is a 229mm,
f/4.5. serial no. 0001 is auctioned at Christie's in South Kensington, London on July 16, 2002 to the highest bidder for 3500 GBP."



Cooke S4/i Lens with "Intelligence"

Cooke Optics Ltd.
Cooke Close
Thurmaston
Leicester, LE4 8PT
United Kingdom


LINK>>
http://www.cookeoptics.com/cooke.nsf/history/2000

[Finner]

That makes a lot of sense then as the red lenses I held at NAB reminded me a lot of cookes.