RED lenses Sigmas?

[sander kamp]

Sigma website:
18-50 f2.8
50-150 f2.8
300 f2.8

Not drawing any conclusions here. Just curious.

 

[redrum]

it's been discussed before. Speculation is that they use the sigma glass, and get them re-housed in England.

 

[sander kamp]

In that case zoom lenses must be much more difficult to re-house, considering the price difference with the 300. Or the 300 is just a steal.

 

[David Nardini]

re-housed in England.

& who might that be then ?

 

[Stephen Williams]

Hi,

The 18-50 is without a doubt a Sigma. I have not actually seen the others but the photo of the 50-150 zooming the wrong way was a give away.

The feel of the conversion, would indicate a new player to me.

Stephen

 

[chuck colburn]

In that case zoom lenses must be much more difficult to re-house, considering the price difference with the 300. Or the 300 is just a steal.

The 300 is a prime lens so you don't have to make a new helicoid for the zooming section. As you say it's easier then doing the zooms. I believe the 300 is probally a Sigma as it is the only brand using the 46 (?) mm drop in filters. Canon and Nikon are 50 some mm filters.

 

[redrum]

& who might that be then ?

don't know, but it ain't Cooke, according to Cooke.

 

[LEON]

What about Abakus people, the one that make the B4 to Pl adaptor ?

 

[Kevin Halverson]

The feel of the conversion, would indicate a new player to me.

I fully concur.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Les Zellan from ZGC, New Jersey, US, finally bought Cooke in July, 1998.
If it could be for sell today it will be too expensive to buy.
But who knows?
Panavision did rehousing Leica designed lenses with ELCAN (Ernst Leitz Canada) today owed by a Raytheon Company.
There are four Academy Awards won by the Panavision Promo-L lens series.
Nikons or Canons you can't get in a huge stock for rehousing.
Maybe Sigmas you can get.
But Sigma is not in Nikon or Canon quality and with Leica or Cooke you should not even try to compare.
So what is left?
Today the best option is get enough stock from Leica AG in Germany.
How?
If you have enough money and a good concept you could try to join
Leica Cinema GmbH in Zürich
and make quite a good lenses out of Leica Wetzlar designed glass.

 

[Babu Kantamneni]

Les Zellan from ZGC, New Jersey, US, finally bought Cooke in July, 1998.
If it could be for sell today it will be too expensive to buy.
But who knows?
Panavision did rehousing Leica designed lenses with ELCAN (Ernst Leitz Canada) today owed by a Raytheon Company.
There are four Academy Awards won by the Panavision Promo-L lens series.
Nikons or Canons you can't get in a huge stock for rehousing.
Maybe Sigmas you can get.
But Sigma is not in Nikon or Canon quality and with Leica or Cooke you should not even try to compare.
So what is left?
Today the best option is get enough stock from Leica AG in Germany.
How?
If you have enough money and a good concept you could try to join
Leica Cinema GmbH in Zürich
and make quite a good lenses out of Leica Wetzlar designed glass.

Is there an English version?
Thx

 

[Tim Lüdin]

come on, that wasn't that hard to understand.
He did worse, specially when he's drunk after dropping some nikon glass

Cheers
Tim

 

[Babu Kantamneni]

come on, that wasn't that hard to understand.
He did worse, specially when he's drunk after dropping some nikon glass

Cheers
Tim

Sorry.I was looking at leica webpage he was reffering to.Second one from bottom.
Thx

 

[Tim Lüdin]

Ohhh, :w00t: sorry, now I got ya.
Now I have to laugh about my own dumb selfe.

Forums can be fun...

Cheers
Tim

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Is there an English version?
Thx

:weight_lift: :biggrin: :clown2: I just have got back from drinking again.

The page makes you crazy you could get here at Google translation

LINK>>>>


After all now I just have to think about to continue or to stop drinking.

Not so easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Babu Kantamneni]

:weight_lift: :biggrin: :clown2: I just have got back from drinking again.

The page makes you crazy you could get here at Google translation

LINK>>>>


After all now I just have to think about to continue or to stop drinking.

Not so easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you

 

[A. Bastaki]

lols.... im still sticking to canon l series... maybe when mkIII's are made i might get em traded.
________
Arizona marijuana dispensary

 

[Fredrik Harreschou]

I have a question re rehousing SLR lenses:

Will /can rehousing have any (positive) effect on breathing?

Cheers,
Fredrik

 

[dvpixl]

I wanna see one post from Sanjin without a link or a help of reference.

 

[peter roehsler]

Sanjin is a tireless searcher and he finds amazing & interesting stuff. I never had a problem to understand his posts. He finds strange and useful things, all done in the spirit to broaden our knowledge - so please do not hit on him.