35mm Prime Lens Options

[Jeff Kilgroe]

LOL... Damn zombie thread, I should've just locked it.

Thanks Pawel, but back when I posted that, no one had even seen a 300mm RED lens yet, that was January '07. At that time, the only thing we had was one of Jarred's photos and a close-up of one of the "milk girls", supposedly shot with a prototype RED 300.

But yeah, the 300mm is a nice lens. Although I now find myself holding out for the revised "pro" 300mm prime along with the rest of the upcoming RED primes.

 

[Tonaci Tran]

IF you are shopping for used lenses, my advice is to start now. In the next several months I predict that the prices of used 35mm lenses will go up due to demand. Reservations are around 1070ish. After NAB, this number will increase drastically, therefore, more users will be in the market looking for lenses. Of course not everyone will want to buy and not everyone can afford a cooke s4/arri master prime set. The more I researched this, the more I realize that an affordable prime lens set is sorely missing in the market..(cough cough) Jim.

hehe.. I forgot about ever writing this in 2007..sadly I was right. =( but it is a good thing the Red Primes are coming.

 

[Matthew Verkler]

There is lead and other banned substances in the superspeed glass. EU regulations ban their use in manufacture. This is the "RoHS Compliant" labels one sees on electronics these days. Zeiss will never again manufacture the SuperSpeed design. Bad for the environment.

Stupid environment . . . . oster_stupid: :sarcasm:

 

[Matthew Verkler]

LOL... Damn zombie thread, I should've just locked it.

Thanks Pawel, but back when I posted that, no one had even seen a 300mm RED lens yet, that was January '07. At that time, the only thing we had was one of Jarred's photos and a close-up of one of the "milk girls", supposedly shot with a prototype RED 300.

But yeah, the 300mm is a nice lens. Although I now find myself holding out for the revised "pro" 300mm prime along with the rest of the upcoming RED primes.

Yeah, the new 300 looks really sexy. But I don't think you can go wrong with the current 300 if you don't want to wait. Really great lens. Love it love it love it.

 

[Mitch Gross]

Has anyone ever checked the RED 300mm to see if it really is a 300mm focal length? It's a mathematically straightforward process to determine if the field of view is that of a 300mm instead of, say 290 or 320. I ask 'cause the 18-50 ain't 18-50. They vary, but for the most part what I've seen is usually more like 17.2 to 48.

Just sayin'....

 

[Robert Horwell]

Out of all of these lenses - the Zeiss 2.1 set and the Cooke Speed Panchro (S2 and occasionally S3) seem like the only budget-realistic choices, assuming for argument's sake we want the total cost of lenses < total cost of camera.
I have yet to see a full set of Cooke Speed Panchros for sale, anywhere. In fact, does anyone know how many models of these ever existed?
Occasionally in Insync I'll see a set of Zeiss 2.1s for 10k - 15k, which is not bad. Usually it'll be 4 or 5 lenses, 28, 35, 50, 85 or the like.
Other than the aforementioned magazine, where do people look for used 35mm lenses of reliable quality?

I have a set of Cooke SII/III lenses. re-housed by century optics. I love them, i use them on my RED and they blow me away every time i use them. We are currently shooting a feature on them. There are a few sets here in the U.K incirculation at rental houses and they are always without fail out on hire...that tells me something about these lovely lenses.