Leica Summilux-C Primes

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

One thing makes me wonder:

If RED were to make a prime set of $100K price tag.

How would it be?

 

[MichaelHalsell]

My hope is that Jim Jannard and the Red team decide to create
a lens set of equal quality/weight/speed etc. and then sell them
at a very low price, so as to once and for all bring and end to this
expensive lens practice.
:banghead::sifone::banghead::sifone:

Let's not ruin the moment for Leica. Great product, a bit expensive for the general population but useful for the select few no doubt. Let's give them some shine and also give RED a bit more time and space to circle back around on existing products. They have working pretty hard. 'I hear the clanging of hammers in the workshop.':cheers2:

 

[Greg M]

My hope is that Jim Jannard and the Red team decide to create
a lens set of equal quality/weight/speed etc. and then sell them
at a very low price, so as to once and for all bring and end to this
expensive lens practice.
:banghead::sifone::banghead::sifone:

LOL...you get what you pay for, the Leica Summilux is one of the finest modern lenses ever produced. It looks as good at 1.4 as it does at 5.6, and is a quite remarkable lens.

As a point of reference a Summilux 24mm M lens is $6500 and you cant find them in stock as they are hand assembled in small quantities.

 

[C.H.Haskell]

I look forward to putting these into motion.

 

[Raphael Varandas]

wow...nice!!
sanjin you late hahaha
but it was a pretty pretty good news

best nab ever, hã??
i mean... in digital cinematography??
arty:

 

[Tico Llaurador]

Leica Glass = No 2nd camera needed for 3D effect.

Long live well-shot 2D!

:smash:

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

wow...nice!!
sanjin you late hahaha
but it was a pretty pretty good news

best nab ever, hã??
i mean... in digital cinematography??
arty:

Together with ARRI/Carl Zeiss Master Primes and Cooke S5/i probably

optically and mechanically the best super fast prime set that money can buy.

They are pretty lightweight that is a certain advantage over sets of MPs and Cookes.

Also they could be a cine lens set of masterpieces.

To give you an idea how it looks one of the Leica still lens masterpieces on RED1-M:

Leica Apo-Summicron-M 75mm ASPH f/2.0 on RED ONE-M (FF35mm rangefinder lens).

Download 1920x800 short H264 test example shot two days ago 21MB >>>

To see more how all types of lens lateral aberrations are pretty well under control you should have a look at 4.5K size image in this somehow a high contrast situation

Download 4.5K widescreen shot @ f/8.0, ND 0.9, Circ-Pola, Hot Mirror Formatt filters, ISO 320, 1/50 shutter, 4480x1920 JPG >>>

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Now it's official

Leica Summilux-C Primes.

Leica Summilux-C 40mm.

"The product of more than three years of development, these new T1.4 close focus primes employ a unique multi-aspheric design
and high-precision cine lens mechanics to provide unmatched flat field illumination across the entire 35mm frame and suppression
of color fringing in the farthest corners of the frame with no discernable breathing.
These lenses are superior to any lenses Band Pro’s team of experts has yet seen."

Read more>>>

 

[Evin Grant]

I will own a set of these some day, oh yes, I will (rubbing hands together).

 

[hans de vries]

??????? Where the hell do these prices come from?! I just bought a 1.4 35 mm leica lens (second hand) for 850 euros on ebay! What do they do to these things to ask so much?
Mr. Jannard, do something about it! You've done it before!

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

??????? Where the hell do these prices come from?! I just bought a 1.4 35 mm leica lens (second hand) for 850 euros on ebay! What do they do to these things to ask so much?
Mr. Jannard, do something about it! You've done it before!

You pay for the highest optical and mechanical lens design.

Also all the lenses are handmade assembled in Germany.

So that's costs always something more.

 

[hans de vries]

Sanjin, this is not 'something more'. And are you saying they are much better than the standard photo lenses?

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Sanjin, this is not 'something more'. And are you saying they are much better than the standard photo lenses?

Yes.

 

[hans de vries]

okay

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

Yes.

How?

Are there PDFs and sheets of it yet?

 

[G Lap]

Sanjin, this is not 'something more'. And are you saying they are much better than the standard photo lenses?

Yes.

How? Are there PDFs and sheets of it yet?

I think the question Sanjin was answering was about the quality and performance of Leica lenses in general, compared to other existing lenses in the stills world. I tend to agree with him on this.

As for cine lenses, we'll have to wait and see. For the moment, based on experience in the stills world, I'm assuming that they'll at least be up there with Cooke and Zeiss. I agree too that their lighter weight and more compact size should give them a useful differentiator compared to the opposition.

 

[hans de vries]

ah, if that's the case it's a misunderstanding; I was talking about a 35 mm 1.4 leica lens that I bought second hand for 850 euros, and I wondered why you would have to pay so much more for a lens that I assumed was just re-barreled (if that's the correct term). So my question remains: is a 35 mm leica lens from this new series significantly better than the standard leica lens I bought?

 

[Andrew Rieger]

As a Leica fan and owner, I love these lenses but the price tag is out of control. You get what you pay for but for the price of a Bentley, these lenses need to cure cancer or something. Only the most experienced will be able to tell the difference between these and RPP's when comparing footage. Another set of fast cine lenses that no one can afford, great!

 

[Matthew Duclos]

I have very high hopes for these lenses. While I have not bench tested them with the proper equipment YET...
I have heard from several sources that they are phenomenal.
As soon as Band Pro feels like sending a set this way, I'll post a nice formal review.
With Michael over at Arri now, I hope Randy is reading this

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

I would love to see your review Matthew! Of course I mostly want to see 5k samples and feel their mechanics, but it would be so interesting to read your review.

Would you post samples if you got a set to review?

SJ, you posted a sample from an f/2.0 though, so it wouldn't be very close to the design.
And I am sure you have a higher contrast sample somewhere.
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