Glass drought?

Shooter said:
Thank you ...but...I will tell you all what I am looking for... a Nikkor 20mm

The crop factor on still lenses is the "devil in the detail" and a true wide will be hard to get until we see what a lens manufacturer responds with as a range of zooms or primes for these sensors.
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Yeah, its the real drawback. But there's that Tokina zoom out there, that'll get you down to 22mm with the X2 crop factor taken into account. There is some Nikon AIS glass out there that goes pretty low too. But they're serious fisheyes. Do the fisheye 8mm and 10mm have a distortion effect even with the X2 crop factor of the AF100?
 
The Lumix 7-14 will get you a field of view much wider than that Nikkor 20mm. It's one stop slower. Bump the ISO up a notch and you're there. Not an ideal ideal solution, but if it gets you the shot you need, then go with it.

If you need the 2.8 speed, you can get that with most of the FOV you're looking for from the Olympus 11-22. It's equiv. to a 22mm 2.8. Not exactly the same as 20mm, but pretty dang close. Or the Olympus 12-60; that's another wide/fast lens, f/2.8 at equiv. 24mm.

If you need exactly 20mm FOV and even more speed, you can get it by renting an Arri Ultra Prime 10mm/f2 lens. Same FOV as the Nikkor, but twice as fast.

There are plenty of ways to skin that cat, right now. You just have to look.
 
You can also build a nice FD/FL set for really cheap. I really love the look of those old Canons... there have been some really great videos posted here with FDs.
 
Postmaster said:
Had anyone ever tried Fujinon C-mount or B4 mount lenses? Some of them are pretty fast and nice priced.

http://www.fujinon.com/DigitalCinema/Product.aspx?cat=51&id=236

Frank
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I believe most B4 and C-mount glass is optimized for 16mm or 2/3" sized sensors. AF-100 is 4/3". I'd assume, and this is just an educated guess, that an acceptable image circle would not fully cover the sensor by quite a bit, considering 2/3" is approx four times less the surface area than 4/3".

I'd expect vignetting in exposure and focus while also perhaps edge/barrel distortion on wides. If you like that, go for it. But it will always be there.
 
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built a kit out of used Nikon AIS manual focus lenses. probably spent $2500 total on the following. maybe less.

16mm f/2.8
24mm f/2.0
35mm f/1.4
50mm f/1.2
85mm f/2.0
135mm f/2.0
300mm f/4.5

some of the bodies show some wear but the glass is perfect.

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Battled bodies rule anyway IMHO.

You don´t look like a rookie, that comes out of the quartermasters
with shiny new gear (even if you are a rookie)

I always use some emery paper to "age" new equipment. :happy:

Frank
 
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