FS: Century 14mm T2.8 PL Mount - $2,500

[Scott Schneider]

Hello Everyone,

We have a Century 14mm T2.8 with PL mount for $3,750

Email me if interested: sschneider@fvesco.com





Thanks, Scott.

 

[George A.]

Hi!

I have two of these lenses (in fact, one a Century rehouse, the other an Optex rehouse - but same optics).

They are rehoused Canon FD lenses made for full frame. Yet, neither covers full frame. I checked other similar Canon 14mm lenses, same story.

Do you have any idea why? Did the rehousing itself limited the coverage? Can it be undone/modified, so it would eventually cover what the optics were supposed to cover in the first place?

Great lens overall, and Scott is a great guy to deal with!

 

[Jacek Zakowicz]

petal(?) shade

petal(?) shade

Hi!

I have two of these lenses (in fact, one a Century rehouse, the other an Optex rehouse - but same optics).

They are rehoused Canon FD lenses made for full frame. Yet, neither covers full frame. I checked other similar Canon 14mm lenses, same story.

Do you have any idea why? Did the rehousing itself limited the coverage? Can it be undone/modified, so it would eventually cover what the optics were supposed to cover in the first place?

Great lens overall, and Scott is a great guy to deal with!

You need to remove the front ring- they have the petal shade for a reason

 

[George A.]

Hi Jacek!

I think I tried that already, but I'm not 100% sure. I'll check it again at the earliest opportunity.

 

[Rogerhaugen]

Hi!

I have the same question about the canon k-35. I heard the 18mm is vignetting at ff35. Anyone know why?

 

[chuck colburn]

Hi!

I have the same question about the canon k-35. I heard the 18mm is vignetting at ff35. Anyone know why?

If memory serves me, the Canon K-35 lenses were for cine use and not still camera. They covered full aperture cine 35.

 

[George A.]

If memory serves me, the Canon K-35 lenses were for cine use and not still camera. They covered full aperture cine 35.

Hi Chuck!

They were indeed designed for cine use and not still camera. YET, they do cover full frame 36mmx24mm! They are unique in that respect - probably the only cine lens set to cover full frame still (if not, definitely the fastest cine set ever to cover FF).

The 24, 35, 55 and 85 cover 6K FF no problem, the 18mm vignettes just a little bit (a very slight crop will do). 5K is no problem. They are very similar to Zeiss Superspeeds, even a bit sharper, especially when wide open! The image they produce is amazing.

They will be big when Monstro comes out.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

They will be big when Monstro comes out.

George,

when Monstro comes out with about 15.5 latitude stops then set of Leica-M lenses is going

to be very attractive competition to any cine lens set starting with RPPs to Master/Mistery/Cooke 5i.

Those are really a true lenses for cine FF35mm VistaVision format with Monstro 15.5 latitude as a support sensor.

 

[George A.]

Hi Sanjin!

Optically, no doubt. Leica glass is indeed amazing.

But cine lenses mean much more than that. Solid housings, focus rotation direction and especially travel distance, gears, PL (or other solid cine) mounts, ease of use in cine environment etc etc etc

Current Leica still glass has a long way to go in those respects (it needs very expensive full rehousing etc).

I am talking about dedicated cine glass here. Unfortunately, no serious DP will ever use still glass on a cine set regularly.

 

[George A.]

But let's not hijack Scott's sale thread.

 

[chuck colburn]

If Red sells a camera in "C" mount, all those little 16mm primes made by Angenieux and Kern Palliard (Switar) are going to jump way up in price. Right now you round up a set of Angenieux primes in 5.9, 10, 15, 25 (the 25 in either f0.95 or f1.8) 50 and 75mm for well under 2k. Look what happened to the FF35 lenses made by Zeiss for the Contax cameras. The 21mm went from around $600.00 to between 2 and 3k The 200mm f2 Aposonnar went from under 2k to 5-7k The 55 and 85mm f1.2's well forget those altogeather.

Ooops, It's already happening. The 25mm f0.95's are listing at over 1k on ebay. The Bell & Howell versions are the same as the Angenieuxs but tend to go for less.

 

[chuck colburn]

But let's not hijack Scott's sale thread.

Right you are George.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Hi Sanjin!

Optically, no doubt. Leica glass is indeed amazing.

But cine lenses mean much more than that. Solid housings, focus rotation direction and especially travel distance, gears, PL (or other solid cine) mounts, ease of use in cine environment etc etc etc

Current Leica still glass has a long way to go in those respects (it needs very expensive full rehousing etc).

I am talking about dedicated cine glass here. Unfortunately, no serious DP will ever use still glass on a cine set regularly.

George,

let me show you something like this test shot from yesterday:

Shot on R1 with Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2.0 @ f/5.6, 320 ISO, 1/48 shutter, 23.98 fps (it was a bit on side shot and not 100% at 90 degrees to the objects, so focus is variable to the distance).

Download 4K jpg >>>

The smallest but probably the best lens ever made: Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2.0 on R1.

 

[George A.]

The lens might be good, but you won't see this set-up on a serious film set.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

The lens might be good, but you won't see this set-up on a serious film set.

George,

there are no any more serious film sets just because there are not so much or even any serious film made in the recent times.

The new films just have got boring together with its optically instant look and cinematography.

Stay tuned on my cine lens/optical experiment.

You'll gonna be nicely surprised at the end.

 

[Rogerhaugen]

This looks cooler...)

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Ha ha not at all...

Leica Apo-Summicron-M 75mm f/2.0 ASPH on R1.

 

[Lenny Manfred]

Sorry, Scott, to join on the kidnapping of your thread, but i had to add my two cents.

Guys, don't forget about the Dalsa rehoused Leica R lenses that are available through Allan Gordon. They are not cheap, but they are spectacular. I myself have Red no more, but I did have my now discontinued Leica lenses, that where just sitting in my safe, modified by Duclos and now use them with fantastic results on my 5D. The image looks very different from the stuff with my Canon L glass. Plus they are a pleasure to focus manually.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Great Lenny,

also I'm switching now to Leica M lenses.

 

[Tom Lowe]

For Monstro, the rehoused Ruby 14-24 and the EF 14mm 2.8 Mark II will be out of this world. I've been shooting on the Canon 14mm II full frame, and it's stunning. Hopefully someone will rehouse the EF 14mm 2.8 II. *hint hint*