SALT Results... (Part 1, Results)

[Pawel Achtel]

muahahah... an other vote for the separate testing of MPs... muahahaha!

Stay tuned

[Peter Rollins]

Thank you Matthew I did read your review but are you completely sure that U are not forgetting something?

I think everyone knows that Duclos has had a key part in the Uniq Optics primes I am not sure why Matthew is hiding that fact. Just call UO and ask.

[Peter Rollins]

The RougeDP lenses were my favorite of the group. They're pretty damn amazing..

Hey Richard were you a reviewer as well? I seem to have missed your review?

[Michael Lindsay]

I would like to thank the team for there efforts..

I have a couple of questions:

Did you detect any pincushioning on the Optimo DP 30-80?

Was there any testing of the lenses close focus 'performance' (not just a min focus capability)?

kind regards

Michael L

[Matt Uhry]

I would like to thank the team for there efforts..

I have a couple of questions:

Did you detect any pincushioning on the Optimo DP 30-80?

Was there any testing of the lenses close focus 'performance' (not just a min focus capability)?

kind regards

Michael L

There was a little barrel at the wide and pincushion at the long end with the Optimo 30-80 but it's quite minor.

We did not test performance at close focus - Trust me we had our hands completely full doing what we did in a day.

I'll take a look at the RPP's as a CF set when I get them and our camera comes back from being on rental.

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

[Nils J. Nesse]

Excellent work, kudos to the SALT crew.

(Opinion 2: David Mullen)

The 100mm lenses were generally the weakest of everyone’s line of primes.

This is interesting. And a little disappointing, as I really like the 100mm focal length.

Is the RPP 100mm noticably inferior to the other focal lenghts apart from the flaring issue?

In my Nikon mount Zeiss ZF set, I feel the 100mm is the best lens in the set optically. Zeiss have adapted the ZFs to cine lenses with the Compact Primes -- all focal lenghts except the 100mm. Curious.

For reference, is the 100mm Master Prime weaker than the other Master Primes?

[David Mullen ASC]

The 100mm lenses were softer in comparison to the other primes in the same series, that doesn't necessarily mean they are soft overall, just that usually the next prime shorter in focal length was sharper -- or at least, looked that way. But I find long lenses in general start to look flatter and thus less snappy and edgy, could partly be due to how hard it gets to focus them, or a loss of contrast, I don't know. You are looking through more air, so to speak.

Maybe Pawel can compare his 100mm Master Prime to his 50mm and 75mm and tell you.

[Antoine Fabi]

Thanks very much guys.

Very good review.

Antoine

[kevin N]

great review guys. thank you so much for your efforts. (brook, thanks for all of your comments with respect to onset practicality and usability of the lenses too! i have worked with a lot of different lenses and camera systems and it amazes me when small little details are missed when designing a new lens or camera system.) i am in the market to be putting together a camera package soon. could we list the price points of all the sets and/or zooms?
rrp 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 100mm 19 000 usd or approx 4000 each?
uniq optics 18mm, 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 100mm 30 000 usd or approx 5000 each?
zeiss compact primes 18mm, 21mm, 25mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 100mm 6000 usd per lens? set of 5 being approx. 30 000 usd
zeiss ultra primes 12 000 usd each???
cooke s4's 18 000 aprox each a set of 5 being 90 000 usd??
ang rouge zooms 20 000 usd each?
new fujinon 18-85 85 000 usd?

[Rodney James]

RED Pro Primes [T1.8]

On the Cooke, the outer barrel is only present forward of the focusing gear. This means that from the rear element of the lens forward, the two largest outside diameters are the two gears - the iris gear and the focus gear. The lens has a larger outside diameter forward of the focusing gear, but not aft. This allows a lens to be swapped without having to disengage your motors or follow focus - just slide one lens out and slide another lens on. Everything lines up. This is true on every cinema lens I can recall ever coming across.

Brook the Uniq Optics have a recessed focus ring if I can remember correctly but you did not mention it in the review. Or am I wrong?