Schneider Xenon 50mm f0.95 C-MOUNT + Samples

[Rustam Babaev]

Here is a Schneider Xenon 50mm f0.95 c-mount cine lens:

It can be used with m4/3 (E-P1, GH-1, AG-AF100) and Sony NEX (NEX-VG10) cameras with c-mount - m4/3 (c-mount - E-mount) adapters. I think the lens can be adapted also to other cameras (Scarlet 2/3").
Xenon is a Schneider's optimized version of a famous Carl Zeiss's Planar formula (Double Gauss design).

Here is a video taken with this lens and E-P1: Blackmade B-Day party on Vimeo

Sample pictures taken with Olympus E-P1 (right click on image to open it in full size):

BTW: I decided to sell this lens, so you can buy it on ebay now: Schneider Xenon 50mm f0.95 C-MOUNT m4/3 NEX Leica M | eBay

 

[Rustam Babaev]

Images are straight from LR, just ordinary color corrections. Vignetting is also added in LR.

 

[David W. Jones]

My understanding was this lens covers a 16mm image circle.

 

[Rustam Babaev]

This lens covers all m4/3 sensor.
But you can see slight vignette in corners of a larger Leica M8 27 x 18 mm sensor (1.33 crop):

And heavy vignette on a full frame of Leica M6 (24 x 36 mm).

So the lens covers a circle 30 mm in diameter.

 

[Douglas Underdahl]

Lovely.

 

[Timur Civan]

Love a lens w/ Charachter.... Too bad it wont cover F3/RED.....

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Love a lens w/ Charachter.... Too bad it wont cover F3/RED.....

I had a short test of that lens on GH2 at LeicaShop Vienna, it was sharp, had a nice shallow DOF,... but a shop guy told me that the lens has a technical fault because it can't focus to infinity...