Rokinon Cine Primes on EPIC, first Impressions

[Kyle Dones]

I thought Rokinons had hard stops being full manual lenses and all. What am I missing here?

It goes just past infinity. the L shape you see above the ininity logo, Infinity is at the horizontal line. The infinity symbol itself is probably something i cant explain to you (anyone?) but nothing is in focus from my understanding/expirience. weird right?

 

[Dominik Muench]

That piano shot is lovely Kyle.

I just came back from another quick test with these lenses....I noticed that they hard stop just a couple of millimeters past the infinity symbol...and once you hit that mark...your picture is completely out of focus....so on infinity pinsharp throughout, and once you go 2-3mm past...BAM all blurry.

Another downpoint of these lenses is also that they have different front element sizes....on a shoot with mattebox and proper 4x4/5.6 filters thats no issue...but anyone wanting to use these on a run and gun shoot....your 77mm ND fader will only make the 35mm lens happy.

All shot without ND filter, 25fps 5K 4:1 at various shutter speeds.

14mm

24mm

35mm

85mm

85mm

85mm

Hopefully be doing a proper motion-stills shoot with these babies later this week.

 

[Matt Ryan]

It goes just past infinity. the L shape you see above the ininity logo, Infinity is at the horizontal line. The infinity symbol itself is probably something i cant explain to you (anyone?) but nothing is in focus from my understanding/expirience. weird right?

So do most cinema primes... It's normal to go past a bit. That's so in case of temperature changes and causes the glass elements to expand and contract, you can always get infinity focus. Otherwise you'd be screwed.

 

[Kyle Dones]

So do most cinema primes... It's normal to go past a bit. That's so in case of temperature changes and causes the glass elements to expand and contract, you can always get infinity focus. Otherwise you'd be screwed.

Thanks this is news. I guess its not THAT "weird"...

@ Dominik - Thanks. Shots like that make me want a monochrome.

 

[Mike P.]

Hey Dom, on those last set of stills, what is the f-stop?

 

[Eric Santiago]

I only found the 85mm to be of different size (72mm front).

Fixed that with a step up ring.

Is the 8mm and 14mm different as well?

 

[Kyle Dones]

My puffy self.

Fight Scene

Fight Scene

All of these are on the 35mm at 2.8 (Bloody head), 5.6 (Fight scene, interview), 11 (girl on wall) ISO 800 180 shutter angles ( except interview...90 degree)

 

[Dominik Muench]

Mike: those were all around f8-f16

 

[Kyle Dones]

I think I remember the 24 being 77mm as well but regardless it would be great if they all matched. Any body know updates on the 50mm?

 

[Eric Santiago]

I think I remember the 24 being 77mm as well but regardless it would be great if they all matched. Any body know updates on the 50mm?

Yes 24 and 35 are 77 whilst 85 is 72.

I would love a 50mm

 

[Paul Moss]

hey guys if you want to standardize your lens front, try these guys.........http://www.cordvision.com/lens-upgrades/
I have used their cine ring adapters to standardize my 24mm, 35mm & 85mm Rokinons to Arri 80mm standard.......they work a treat....! and they have a good lens cap option as well.......!

cheers
Paul

 

[Dominik Muench]

hey guys if you want to standardize your lens front, try these guys.........http://www.cordvision.com/lens-upgrades/
I have used their cine ring adapters to standardize my 24mm, 35mm & 85mm Rokinons to Arri 80mm standard.......they work a treat....! and they have a good lens cap option as well.......!

cheers
Paul

oh wow great find thanks.

 

[Kyle Dones]

oh wow great find thanks.

+1

i wonder if vignetting is something to worry about due to stacking filters.

insight? Anyone?

id put these on all my lenses for the run and gun shoots!

 

[Kyle Dones]

Here a few shots from this afternoon, my first proper shoot with the lenses will be tomorrow:

85mm

Crop at 100%:

14mm

14mm

Idk how I missed these the first time around. beautiful

 

[Eric Santiago]

Nice frames Kyle, any NDs?

 

[Kyle Dones]

If youre referring to the ones I just quoted...Those are Dom's lol Cant take credit where it isnt due. But if you saw my other ones before I removed them from my dropbox (which I just discovered they have to remain there to stay up and posted) I did not have ND.

 

[Paul Moss]

Kyle,
i haven't had any issues with vignetting using these cine ring adapters, but i am using a 4x5.65 clamp on Matte box & filters.......and im only shooting 4KHD with them at the minute.....i can test for you in 5K on the 24mm.....?
cheers

 

[Kyle Dones]

Kyle,
i haven't had any issues with vignetting using these cine ring adapters, but i am using a 4x5.65 clamp on Matte box & filters.......and im only shooting 4KHD with them at the minute.....i can test for you in 5K on the 24mm.....?
cheers

That would be fantastic!

 

[Les Dittert]

Good looking frames Kyle. And thanks for posting full rez ! Bravo!

For those who need help looking at the full rez, you can right click on his frame and 'open in new tab'.
Then you can fill the screen, go one to one pixels, and pan around in it.

 

[Paul Moss]

Kyle...
No Vignetting at all at 24mm 5K 2:1 with cine adapter rings on lens........


edit: wait a minute......how in the hell do i get a higher rez images uploaded......?