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Announcing the Rebel lenses

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Mitch Gross

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At last! The rumors are over. Here's a brand new set of matched T1.9 lenses at an affordable price. Available in volume. Come see them at the Abel booth at NAB and Abel's table at the REDuser party.

Sanjin, how did you not get this up before I made it into the office this morning? :)

www.rebel-lenses.com
 
Mitch Gross said:
At last! The rumors are over. Here's a brand new set of matched T1.9 lenses at an affordable price. Available in volume. Come see them at the Abel booth at NAB and Abel's table at the REDuser party.

Sanjin, how did you not get this up before I made it into the office this morning? :)

www.rebel-lenses.com
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Hi Mitch,

The focus scale is very disappointing.

Stephen
 
Interesting. I look forward to hearing hands-on reviews...makes me wish I could make it to NAB.
 
Ummmmm...

Ummmmm...

:blink:

Ok there are people on here who know a LOT more about lenses than me, but if I have this right we're looking at $12,000 us for 3 lenses, and $22,000 us for 5.

And these lenses may be pretty with the pics. But they look pretty bad on the outside, and did someone tell me correctly that they expand when focusing?

I will hold final judgement until I see them, but as of right now....

:thumbdown:​
 
So these are the IB/E lenses?
 
It seems that RED has once again has made a product (the RPP kit) that will be hard to compete with...

Mitch, does the image below show the 25 mm expanded? Does it expand by what seems to be almost two inches?

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Well, I'm pretty disappointed already. Stephen is right about the focus scale being too close and the price is not at all attractive. Why would I pay $22,000 USD for this set when I could buy the RED set for $20,000? (and now possibly less...)

I think these would have been for more interesting around $12,000 USD. Not to mention that the website says the current pricing is a limited time offer.

Matthew
 
Mitch Gross said:
At last! The rumors are over. Here's a brand new set of matched T1.9 lenses at an affordable price. Available in volume. Come see them at the Abel booth at NAB and Abel's table at the REDuser party.

Sanjin, how did you not get this up before I made it into the office this morning? :)

www.rebel-lenses.com
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Mitch - these are IBE, correct?

Is the "German" primes set? Or is that ANOTHER set?

Is this the set LAGUUN posted about?
 
OK, got it now... I was aware of the older picture showing the "cheap" set anodized red, didn't realize they were releasing that set as well as the set depicted in the renders.

It's hard to comment on pricing until we see how all the lenses compare. But to be perfectly honest here, the design of the "cheap" ones not being an internal focus design is a strike against them right out of the gate.

Their Supreme lenses look a lot more attractive and it's nice to see a photo of an actual lens and not a render now. It seems they have a T1.8 10mm planned... That will be interesting to see!
 
Mark L. Pederson said:
I think the last mystery here is ... where is the ISCO set?
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That's what I'm wondering...

I have a strong suspicion that this cheaper IB/E set or "Rebel Lenses" are the lenses that Laguun has been talking about. Because he's dropped so many little hints about "Rebel" this and that, The "set" is under 10K Euros, it's been reported that they're not an IF design, like these IB/E lenses, etc..

Edit> Unless ISCO and/or other manufacturers are involved in these? They don't seem to have the IB/E name stamped on the Rebel set and the rebel-lens web site says they are distributed by IB/E optics...
 
Guys what did you expect? I'm pretty sure that these lenses are very good for their price point but you just can't simply do Ultra prime design and squeeze it into 1/10 of the cost.

RED primes is in my guess a loss that Jim and the guys take to gain credibility. Just like all the leather sofa's at IKEA are underpriced - they make the money on other things but having low cost leather sofa's is important for the all around business.
 
These ARE the droids you've been looking for. Yes, they are the lenses Laguun posted on. Yes, they come from IB/E. The lenses expand when focusing, but only by about 20mm, not two inches. There is even an optional bellows that compensates for the expansion if your mattebox doesn't have a bellows. They are German designed and manufactured, and they are completely telecentric for use on a Digital Cinema camera with microlenses.

And the announced prices? As I said before, don;'t trust ANY prices announced or otherwise for all of these new lenses coming out. I know for a fact that BandPro might be saying a price for the Zeiss Compact Primes, but Zeiss itself has not yet decided. So if someone else sets a price it doesn't mean that Abel will necessarily be selling at that price. We shall see.
 
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