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Announcing the S.A.L.T. (Southland Alternative Lens Test)

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Only good surprises at the test, no lemons in this bunch.

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Matt Uhry
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Matthew Duclos said:
Done. Now to compile all the data.
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Don't forget to send the glass to Sydney now. Remember? S.A.L.T. = Second Australian Lens Test. Just that the lenses perform well in US does not mean they will Downunder. :hand:
 
Pawel Achtel said:
Don't forget to send the glass to Sydney now. Remember? S.A.L.T. = Second Australian Lens Test. Just that the lenses perform well in US does not mean they will Downunder. :hand:
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We all know the glass swirls in reverse Downunder!
 
Matthew Duclos said:
So it looks like the lineup will be as follows: (no particular order)

Zeiss Super Speeds
Zeiss Standard Speeds
Zeiss Ultra Primes
Zeiss Master Primes
Zeiss Compact Primes
Cooke S4s
RED Pro Primes
UniqOptics Primes
IB/E RED Null
Angenieux 15-40mm Optimo
Angenieux 17-80mm Optimo
Angenieux 24-290mm Optimo
Angenieux 16-42mm DP
Angenieux 30-80mm DP
Ruby 14-24mm
Duclos 11-16mm
RED 18-85mm

And a few others are still pending.
Some of these may not be included depending on time restraints.

Gents, please correct me if I'm missing anything here.
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I think some of the older Russian lomo, ekrans would be a nice addition. Seems there is still some mystery about these cheap to buy lenses. They do come in T1.4, T1.5, so they can compete speed wise, but more importantly
the overall "look" itself would be nice to compare to the much more expensive lenses.
 
I get this feeling like something is missing...

I get this feeling like something is missing...

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Matt Uhry said:
Only good surprises at the test, no lemons in this bunch.

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Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com
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Hi Matt, Evin,
Don't you think that an important item may be missing on this picture?
hint, hint....:thumbsup:
Jacek Zakowicz, optitek dot org
 
are the results ready now?.... how about now?.... how about now?.....
 
Think 2 weeks, guys. We've got to sort through the footage, organize it, process it, have a screening and then put opinions and experiences down on paper. Soon!
 
Here are some pics from the SALT...

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David and I checking out the tasty new Fujinon 18-85 T2

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"Really the lens was THIS big!" Ted and Matt U. sharing fish stories.

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Matt Duclos scrutinizing a lens on the projector.

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The gang hanging around Brook and his Uber DIT cart looking at some files in Redcine.
 
Just to keep it all on the level with you guys you should know that there were some absentees in the test. Most notably Master Primes did not show up. I had them arranged but some last minuet rentals screwed us. Same thing with some focal length S4s, again most notably the 50mm and 75mm. We did have a 40mm and 100mm though. The two short Optimos for film 28-76 and 15-40 were omitted for time, they seemed to perform pretty much identical to the Rouge's so you can infer data from those.
The Fujinon only showed up at the latter part of the day so it is only included in a few tests.
 
Evin Grant said:
Here are some pics from the SALT...

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Just to explain why my nose is in the air...
I think you're seeing how two different guys with eyeglasses look at something close. I have progressive lenses so I have to look through the bottom of my glasses... I think Evin is looking over the top of his.
 
No RED zooms came in either. The requests for the RED zooms came too late and RED wasn't able to get them for us.

We did have a few other S4s Evin didn't list [at least one, I remember using a 16mm].

That said, we still had about 50 lenses. Nobody get too sad.
 
Evin Grant said:
Just to keep it all on the level with you guys you should know that there were some absentees in the test. Most notably Master Primes did not show up..
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Testing without Master Primes is like having a honemoon without a bride. Send the glass promptly down to Sydney; we will put them on an MTF machine and projector next to brand new Master Primes, and we will report and send them back...or not, depending on the results :rofl:
 
david farland said:
Red didn't have an 18-50mm!!??:blink:
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request to us for the short zooms didnt come till after Sean left already with the rest of the lenses on his way to the test... im actually more surprised that there wasnt any up there already.. there are probably more 18-50's out there than any other cinema zoom on the planet :)
 
Jarred Land said:
request to us for the short zooms didnt come till after Sean left already with the rest of the lenses on his way to the test... im actually more surprised that there wasnt any up there already.. there are probably more 18-50's out there than any other cinema zoom on the planet :)
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No kidding. The 18-50mm Red Zoom was kind of like the kit lens for most of us early camera owners.
 
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