Administrators Andrew Reid Posted December 23, 2021 Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2021 EOSHD investigates... https://www.eoshd.com/news/whats-the-story-behind-schneider-kreuznachs-return-of-the-iscorama/ BTM_Pix and PannySVHS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sewell Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 Rental only for now, apparently. Read the article! PannySVHS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted December 23, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted December 23, 2021 Yeah they are going on sale apparently. No prices yet The plot thickens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 The market seems to be responding to the ever-increasing prices of vintage gear online, which is great IMHO. Another example is modern lenses with a retro look: It makes sense that the same would happen in the anamorphic space. Fantastic stuff! majoraxis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcio Kabke Pinheiro Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Yep, it's a partnership, with DuLens: https://photorumors.com/2021/12/30/schneider-kreuznach-is-bringing-back-the-famous-iscorama-54-anamorphic-lens-adapter-with-the-help-of-the-chinese-company-dulens/ "Crappy chinese lens" is becoming a thing of the past. Emanuel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 17 hours ago, Marcio Kabke Pinheiro said: "Crappy chinese lens" is becoming a thing of the past. Indeed. One advantage that budget Chinese lens manufacturers have is that they're not tooled up to do the radically sophisticated optical formulas and coatings of the latest optically perfect Zeiss / Canon L etc, which means that automatically they're making lenses with more vintage optical formulas and coatings. There market seems to be separating into two aesthetics: videographers are merging with stills photographers and want the highest resolution and sharpest lenses to sell hyper-realistic images directly to an amateur crowd (direct to consumer) and the cinematographers who are being forced by studios and VFX processing houses to shoot as high a resolution as possible and want softer feeling lenses with character to create emotion and to serve the narrative. For these softer rendering lenses they're driving the price of vintage lenses through the roof - the very vintage lenses that the budget Chinese manufacturers are using in their new lenses. They may as well be modern third-party re-issues of classic lenses. This gives us, as budget consumers, the biggest advantage - we get lenses with the right level of sharpness from vintage lenses but with all the benefits of modern mass manufacture and globalised price competition. Hannes Famira 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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