NAB firstlook zoom lenses

I really find no use for these super wide lenses... they should have just made an 18 and 25mm prime to round out their lenses... thats a dumb move to leave a huge gap... it means that people are more likely NOT to go the Sony lens route and look into other options because of the huge gap in coverage. I'm glad I didn't go the sony lens way, I would have been very angry finding out they are not making the other primes soon, or maybe even ever...?
 
11-16 is a great zoom, but there is DUCLOS which is only $3,500.
If someone is after nice mid zoom - RED 17-50 is bang for the money for $6,000.(avoid RED 18-50).
In a long run it is the best to buy Zeiss CP.2 primes. They are so small, i just wish they had a new faster 18mm.
 
Sony SCL P11X15

Preliminary List Price:
7000.00 EUR
Our store

35 mm (full frame) Wide-angle zoom lens

eg for Sony PMW-F3

Features:
- PL mount, image size 35 mm (full size)
- Aperture: T3, 0
- Focal Length: 11 - 16 mm
- 1.5 zoom
- Cooke Interface, 4-pin
- Iris, focus and zoom data processing can be used in motion control rigs and VFX
- 2 years Sony Prime Support
 
The 18-252 is actually suppose to be 3.8 all the way thru... It is probably going to be $$$$ lets hope since it will only work on the F3 the price will be somewhat reasonable
 
Someone floated the price range of 10 to 20 grand for the 18-252 lens. Not sure who the market is for that lens. Given that it uses their proprietory F3 mount, you can't reasonably expect to have the lens in service for more than 5 to 6 years, at best so the return on investment is really poor for almost anyone who would consider the lens. At that price I would rather spring for an Angenieux PL zoom or any of the other top line PL zoom lenses that will have a high residual value once you are done with it.
 
Andrew Stone said:
Someone floated the price range of 10 to 20 grand for the 18-252 lens. Not sure who the market is for that lens. Given that it uses their proprietory F3 mount, you can't reasonably expect to have the lens in service for more than 5 to 6 years, at best so the return on investment is really poor for almost anyone who would consider the lens. At that price I would rather spring for an Angenieux PL zoom or any of the other top line PL zoom lenses that will have a high residual value once you are done with it.
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Ditto.
 
"Someone floated the price range of 10 to 20 grand for the 18-252 lens."

I was very interested in this lens until I read that.
 
avro said:
If someone is after nice mid zoom - RED 17-50 is bang for the money for $6,000.(avoid RED 18-50).
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Is that a typo? I thought the 17-50 was the rehoused Sigma with bad mechanics and the 18-50 was supposed to be a huge improvement?
 
The SCL-Z18X140 lens is very interesting. In fact, it makes me wonder why there isn't a T3.8 constant 14x zoom for still cameras. At first I thought this lens was going to be based on the Tamron zoom optically, but clearly its not, especially being T3.8 constant. The FFD of this lens looks to also be as close as physically possible to the F3 sensor, very different from the Tamron that has ample FFD space. The fact this has optical image stabilization and servo-zoom is also a plus.

I'm also guessing that this mount being called an "FZ" mount means that there will be more S35 cameras with this mount in the future so that this lens would fit a "PMW-F4" years down the line. However, as mentioned by someone else, a 5-figure price tag may find few taker as there is currently only 1 camera this lens will fit.

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Zoom SCL-Z18X140
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I'd be surprised if the SCL-Z18X140 was constant aperture. It's probably constant like the EX1 lens is constant, as in it isnt but it thinks it is. I tend to wonder if it is just a stills lens redesigned, since the specs sound incredibly similar to a 18-250 f3.5-6.3 which sony already makes (as do sigma and tamron). If you look inside the lens hood, it certainly looks like it was built around an non-internal zoom since it has a telescoping part that sticks out into the hood, and the size of the glass looks right, as does the maximum T-stop...
 
T3.9 constant over that range is certainly possible and has been done before. It does cost however as the iris has to track with zoom to maintain constant aperture at all focal lengths. Still zooms are not normally constant aperture through zoom because it isn't important for stills.
 
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