I'm so excited about this lens, it's so great that there are still lens manufacturers that care about more than clinical perfection and are bold. I'll defintely be buying a copy when it's ready.
Finally, and leave it to you, Ted, a comprehensible definition of "Cinematic." While I kinda got it from the many "you'll recognize it when you see it" colloquies, tis nails it for me. The lens looks awesome, and it is great to know there are techno-artisans who are driven to provide the gear creators need to deliver their vision with the tools of today.
To those getting similar looks for very little money: I applaud you! The Coke Look is obsessed over in film circles… many optics manufacturers offer a way to get character into “optically perfect” images… (arri for example offer a whole custom side to tailor a lens set for a production)… but the Speed Panchro series are a particular aesthetic that is hard to replicate… if you’re happy with your current vintage set up: fantastic! This lens isn’t going to be for everyone. After countless thousands of dollars, and many years my favourite and most used lens is my Contax Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.4… the character and flare it introduces is something I personally love. I have Helios. I’ve tried the newer Zeiss lenses. The SP II? For Me? I want one. Umm
You might be surprised with Pentax K and M series lenses..they’re pretty cheap and produce great results. The truth is most classic analogue lenses will be full of characters (due to their optical flaws, they renders image differently, more cinematic or soulful, unlike modern lenses which I find is overly corrected, too sharp with sterile rendering). But to each his own 😁
When I saw your Japan photos, I got excited. I'm going to Japan tomorrow with two fast Voigtlanders. I'll be hitting up the Golden Gai at night, so I'll bring my 21mm 1.4 for those tight little alleys. A 50mm 1.2 is coming with me too. I'll be carrying both.
Lens that I didn't know I needed. While all these other camera brands are coming out with new lenses, this is the only one I am excited about. Thank you for this video!!
I'm obsessed with your 60s Kodachrome pre-set Ted. I use it all the time. The other Kodak and Fuji pre-sets are also superb but that 60s Kc gets me right in my heart. Love it!
Ugh, that nostalgia! The dreamlike effect you get from a warm, not hyper-sharp lens like this makes me nostalgically long for places I've never been. They can produce so much heart and feeling.
I like modern lenses for landscapes, architecture, and the like....but every time I'm doing anything else I reach for my Helios or Super Takumar lenses. Just love character lenses.
Like I always say. “The perfect picture isn’t always perfect”. Doesn’t have to be super sharp and editorial to be perfect. What is the feeling and effect of the picture regardless of its “flaws”.
Love it! So over this obsession with perfection manufacturers have had, but everything just has no soul to it. This changes that direction. I hope it does well for them.
Well you convinced me….pre-ordered in M mount for my M3. Looking at their 35 mm 8 element f/2 collapsable LTM mount as my next lens for my Leica IIIa. Thank you for your excellent videos
I have a couple Pelican cases with old Nikkor lenses . Many with the double Gauss design. I like the wide open low contrast low element lens designs . They have character for sure . I like lenses that give me a “round” image look . Granted I do have a pile of Nikon , Sigma and Sony high resolution, high element count glass also for my day in and day out work in the field . When I need speed and the shot has to be there or has to be very sharp . I purchase lens designs for their use case and am addicted to “looks” This year will be the one I create more with my older lens designs. I just had the Nikkor 55mm f/1.2 on my Z9 and wide open it’s beautiful. I was shooting it on my d850 and it’s on my F5 right now with some Delta 3200 . I shoot low light live music mostly. Peace
I love to experiment with vintage lenses. I especially am interested in cinematic looks from different "analogue" periods. I only wish there was a lens like this one in 35mm. I have orders my copy of this beauty, though. And I have purchased a copy of your film simulation presets to round up the experience. Looking forward to playing with those.
Cooke Speed Panchro lenses came out in the 1920’s, there’s numerous models between then and now. Cooke even makes a modern version in both S35 and Large Format
The last movie I worked on, before retiring from IATSE, was shot with a Super35 Arri film camera. It used a Cooke 10 to 100 zoom lens.. At arm's length you could get a close-up where the actors' heads were fullfram. How cool is that.
First off, this is an extremely high quality video. 10/10. Amazing. Secondly, I got this lens on a lark. It is my favorite over lenses that are 5 x more expensive. It is amazing and I love it. Highly recommended!!
Love seeing character being the focus of a review vs optical performance/perfection. Love the film presets btw, best I’ve used to date to emulate film stock.
I was skeptical on the Light lens lab lenses because they lack to presence or responsiveness on social media, but decided to get the 50mm Elcan replica, I am extremely impressed by the quality of it. I saw a prototype of a Hologon I hope it will make it to production, great video! thank you
The lens looks interesting, but I was somewhat put off by the fact that you didn't show a single picture (that I recall) that was simply rendered from the raw file or from a JPEG directly, instead passing everything through one or another Lightroom plug-in filter to apply some 'film simulation' to the lens's native rendering. So are the qualities you love so much in this lens a product of the lens or a product of these plug-ins? It leaves me with a rather ambivalent feeling for what will be, likely, a $1000 lens from which I'm looking for some kind of "character lens" look.
As I have 50mm Sumicron, I may not be interested to have second lens. I saw their website they do not produce any other lenses except 35mm & 50 mm. I am looking for wide angels like 28mm or 24 mm. Thank you very much for letting me know about this lens, it is very much affordable. The quality is different, not like very sharp and has a film quality pictures.
Love the painterly look. For a 50mm, however, it's kind of long physically compared to Cron 50. Leica lenses get the size right (to avoid RF blocking).
Superb, Ted! I think this is the look I've been looking for for along time - (Hmm, whacky turn pf phrase!) My retirement photography project #1 is to invest a chunk of pension cash to fund my Fuji-X to Leica M switch, at last! As it happens, I love some of Fuji's simulation presets, particularly the filmic types and classic neg, so I've just downloaded your amazing looking F&Kified bundle. Thanks for the inspiration.
Back in the early 1900’s Wollensak did something similar with the Verito lens. While all other manufacturers were chasing “optical excellence” by improving sharpness, speed, and coverage, Wollensak purposely left in some of the aberrations to create a dreary look. They were, and still are today, very sought after lenses.
I really enjoy the pictures you have shown in the video. My favorites as of late to be honest. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this amazing piece of equipment!
That is really a fascinating lens. The pictures are beautiful! You are so lucky to be able to play with cameras and/or lenses before they are introduced to the public. That makes for another good video topic, unheard of companies making aftermarket photo products. Thanks for another great video!
One of my favorite lenses to use on APS-C cameras is a Cooke Ivotal 2" (50mm) f/1.4. I'm super excited for this lens to come out to adapt to my GFX. I'm sure it won't fully cover it, but it's designed for full frame, so I'm sure it'll cover most of it (based on my experience with tons of other vintage lenses)
A Cooke Ivotal 50mm f1.4 practically lives on the front of my Fuji X-H1. It's my go to for street and car show photography. Glad to see a fellow admirer.
@@DwayneFuhlhage it's so good and nobody ever talks about it. Like, I bought a GFX over a year ago, so I should really sell my X-T3, but that camera/lens combo is keeping me from selling. I really want to test this lens to see if I can get a similar effect on the GFX. If I can, then I will sell the XT3.
Buyer Beware when ordering from LLL: I ordered the ELCAN last week as the website said it was in stock. I got an email that they are back ordered but mine would ship directly from China this week. Well I emailed this week and now somehow this new lens has caused a further backlog of the lens I ordered last week (???) and it won't ship for another TWO WEEKS. So who knows when (IF) you'll ever get the lens you order from them. They obviously don't have their act together.
Wonderful video TY! The 58mm 1.4 voigtlander lens was my favorite manual focus lens. Love love the details of your lens. Now it will be on my mind all night! Lol 😂
A friend gave me a 50/1.5 Tokyo Optical Simlar designed in the Thirties and it has pretty much lived on my Leicas the last few months. Love it’s vintage rendering. This Cooke could displace it…
Greetings from a fellow photographer just down I35 in Austin! This was such an AWESOME video! Not sure I would pick one of these up, but the history and visuals you shared were incredible! Great video
yup, the look of this replica reminds me the first 50s of nikon (the S Auto 50 1,4 or H Auto 50 f2, two cemented doublets, with low contrast, flares and "glow") Nice lens !
Great video. I would be very interested in a similar video for slower 50 mm lenses, such as the Sony f1.8, the Summicron f2 etc - and indeed, compared to the Sony 50 mm f1.4 as well. Cheers
Great video, very informative...I have this lens on order. Question about the film presets: will they work in the older standalone version 6 of Lightroom?
Looks fantastic, thank you for the review! Can I ask- the photographs you are showing in the video are they all treated with your LR presets? Are some of the photographs untreated? The examples on LLL's website dont look as cinematic as your images...
Love the “Cooke Look“ I work to get that look or a filmic look so often for my work . I’ve never thought of ever taking control from my work and using a preset. Never and actually well , guess I’m a control freek for my art. I saw your presets and saw the article when you were working on these presets. I would consider using yours they look very nice and a look I’d trust .
Want the Cooke look? Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiplan 50mm f2.8. You can literally buy dozens of those, a couple cameras and STILL have change to go travel and make work with your kit🤷🏻♂️ thank me later lol
This looks amazing. Thanks for the review. Would have loved to say hi when you were over here in Japan, you've reignited my love for photography over these past years.
I am wondering if I would get better results based on this lens design while using film instead of digital? Can you tell me how the two differ? I would think film would have the more noticeable effect opposed to digital. Thanks!
My heart jumped when I saw your Fuji and Kodak presets!❤️ I started with a Minolta XDS and Fuji film was the most affordable! ... .. . sigh..😌 However am I right that these lenses are only made for mirrorless?
Great lens. Just got one. It should be noted for some oddity this lens doesn’t come with a front lens cap. Trying to find something aftermarket. I’m not a fan of the front element being “nude” all the time even in the case.
Really enjoyable and informative video. It’s great that LLLab have taken such an interesting path, pursuing art over technical perfection. Personally I enjoy adapting vintage lenses and the look reminded me of a blend of the look I get from my Pancolar and my Minolta 58 1.4… but native to Leica. I think they’d do well to take the word China off the front of the lens as it doesn’t add anything (I’ve nothing against China, if it said ENGLAND, I’d say the same). I with the team at every success and I may get myself a copy.
Very familiar 'Bokeh' as my 50mm/ f2 Collapsible Summicron. I get donuts in certain out of focus images! Bravo. Latest ultra sharp are not wanted here!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this piece. Any idea of the filter size of the one you used?? I am on the list! I wonder if Walter Mandler looked at movies using Cooke lenses and either consciuously or unconsciously made his Leica glow lenses with that vision in his head.
This is super cool, would also be really cool if they made a cine body version, a budge speed panchro for video? Yes please. Oh and I almost forgot, SOAP BUBBLE BOKEH!!!! That alone makes this a day one purchase for me
![[MV] A leap of faith...ความเชื่อใจครั้งสุดท้าย (From "Petrichor the series")](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1piZH2CNXA/mqdefault.jpg)
I bought this lens. With my M11, it is awesome. With my Leica M6....dreamy. Literally dreamy.
High quality content. Fast. To the point. Informative. 9.5/10. Great stuff
Imagine coupling this with the CCD sensor of the M9
Legends, way better the CMOS of the M240
I'm so excited about this lens, it's so great that there are still lens manufacturers that care about more than clinical perfection and are bold. I'll defintely be buying a copy when it's ready.
Finally, and leave it to you, Ted, a comprehensible definition of "Cinematic." While I kinda got it from the many "you'll recognize it when you see it" colloquies, tis nails it for me. The lens looks awesome, and it is great to know there are techno-artisans who are driven to provide the gear creators need to deliver their vision with the tools of today.
To those getting similar looks for very little money: I applaud you! The Coke Look is obsessed over in film circles… many optics manufacturers offer a way to get character into “optically perfect” images… (arri for example offer a whole custom side to tailor a lens set for a production)… but the Speed Panchro series are a particular aesthetic that is hard to replicate… if you’re happy with your current vintage set up: fantastic! This lens isn’t going to be for everyone. After countless thousands of dollars, and many years my favourite and most used lens is my Contax Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.4… the character and flare it introduces is something I personally love. I have Helios. I’ve tried the newer Zeiss lenses.
The SP II? For Me? I want one. Umm
You might be surprised with Pentax K and M series lenses..they’re pretty cheap and produce great results. The truth is most classic analogue lenses will be full of characters (due to their optical flaws, they renders image differently, more cinematic or soulful, unlike modern lenses which I find is overly corrected, too sharp with sterile rendering). But to each his own 😁
When I saw your Japan photos, I got excited. I'm going to Japan tomorrow with two fast Voigtlanders. I'll be hitting up the Golden Gai at night, so I'll bring my 21mm 1.4 for those tight little alleys. A 50mm 1.2 is coming with me too. I'll be carrying both.
Lens that I didn't know I needed. While all these other camera brands are coming out with new lenses, this is the only one I am excited about. Thank you for this video!!
@@Dan-jg7zl since when has a lens made anyone's photos better? It's all about having fun with it.
I'm obsessed with your 60s Kodachrome pre-set Ted. I use it all the time. The other Kodak and Fuji pre-sets are also superb but that 60s Kc gets me right in my heart. Love it!
Ugh, that nostalgia! The dreamlike effect you get from a warm, not hyper-sharp lens like this makes me nostalgically long for places I've never been. They can produce so much heart and feeling.
I like modern lenses for landscapes, architecture, and the like....but every time I'm doing anything else I reach for my Helios or Super Takumar lenses. Just love character lenses.
Like I always say. “The perfect picture isn’t always perfect”. Doesn’t have to be super sharp and editorial to be perfect. What is the feeling and effect of the picture regardless of its “flaws”.
Love it! So over this obsession with perfection manufacturers have had, but everything just has no soul to it. This changes that direction. I hope it does well for them.
Well you convinced me….pre-ordered in M mount for my M3. Looking at their 35 mm 8 element f/2 collapsable LTM mount as my next lens for my Leica IIIa.
Thank you for your excellent videos
Buy it. I use an original 8 Elements on an M3. It's surprisingly sharp.
I love projects like this. Also excited to try the new Meyer Optik Biotars.
I have a couple Pelican cases with old Nikkor lenses . Many with the double Gauss design. I like the wide open low contrast low element lens designs . They have character for sure . I like lenses that give me a “round” image look .
Granted I do have a pile of Nikon , Sigma and Sony high resolution, high element count glass also for my day in and day out work in the field . When I need speed and the shot has to be there or has to be very sharp .
I purchase lens designs for their use case and am addicted to “looks”
This year will be the one I create more with my older lens designs.
I just had the Nikkor 55mm f/1.2 on my Z9 and wide open it’s beautiful. I was shooting it on my d850 and it’s on my F5 right now with some Delta 3200 .
I shoot low light live music mostly.
Peace
Oh boy… this is the first time I’ve ever lusted after a non-Leica lens. 🤤
Thanks a lot Ted! 🥲
I love to experiment with vintage lenses. I especially am interested in cinematic looks from different "analogue" periods. I only wish there was a lens like this one in 35mm. I have orders my copy of this beauty, though. And I have purchased a copy of your film simulation presets to round up the experience. Looking forward to playing with those.
Cooke Speed Panchro lenses came out in the 1920’s, there’s numerous models between then and now. Cooke even makes a modern version in both S35 and Large Format
The last movie I worked on, before retiring from IATSE, was shot with a Super35 Arri film camera. It used a Cooke 10 to 100 zoom lens.. At arm's length you could get a close-up where the actors' heads were fullfram. How cool is that.
Great stuff Ted, thanks for sharing. I’m interested in this lens for my portraits
Hot damn, I want one of these! I love what lens light lab has been doing!
Great review. I’m on the waiting list. Ted I’m interested in how this lens would render when used in an M10 Monochrome.
Absolutely love your videos and even inspire me to start making my own
photography books
Just got one and love it, feels like 50 Rigid and something "else"
Got to see this lens in person. Cannot wait for the production version.
First off, this is an extremely high quality video. 10/10. Amazing. Secondly, I got this lens on a lark. It is my favorite over lenses that are 5 x more expensive. It is amazing and I love it. Highly recommended!!
Wow, I guess I have more than one TH-cam account. Anyway I agree with me above after several martinis. I love this lens!!!
Love your channel, this review is the perfect blend of art, history and tech. And I want this lens.
Like Saul Leiter’s work. Love the saturation.
Leica reissues and light lens labs work are two things that get me really excited about lens design.
Absolutely beautiful.. we need more of this lens !!
Any idea of when. Avaible. Love this lens look.
Interesting project. I've a Pierre Angénieux 45-90/2.8 lens from 1972, which also has this special cine look.
Love seeing character being the focus of a review vs optical performance/perfection. Love the film presets btw, best I’ve used to date to emulate film stock.
Agreed. Most reviews value the most clinically perfect lens as if photography isn’t an art.
I was skeptical on the Light lens lab lenses because they lack to presence or responsiveness on social media, but decided to get the 50mm Elcan replica, I am extremely impressed by the quality of it. I saw a prototype of a Hologon I hope it will make it to production, great video! thank you
The lens looks interesting, but I was somewhat put off by the fact that you didn't show a single picture (that I recall) that was simply rendered from the raw file or from a JPEG directly, instead passing everything through one or another Lightroom plug-in filter to apply some 'film simulation' to the lens's native rendering. So are the qualities you love so much in this lens a product of the lens or a product of these plug-ins?
It leaves me with a rather ambivalent feeling for what will be, likely, a $1000 lens from which I'm looking for some kind of "character lens" look.
I just pre-ordered my copy. I'm hoping it'll give me a similar look on my GFX that the Cooke Ivotal 50mm 1.4 gives me on my X-mount Fujis.
How does it look on the MF?
As I have 50mm Sumicron, I may not be interested to have second lens. I saw their website they do not produce any other lenses except 35mm & 50 mm. I am looking for wide angels like 28mm or 24 mm. Thank you very much for letting me know about this lens, it is very much affordable. The quality is different, not like very sharp and has a film quality pictures.
Love the painterly look. For a 50mm, however, it's kind of long physically compared to Cron 50. Leica lenses get the size right (to avoid RF blocking).
Superb, Ted! I think this is the look I've been looking for for along time - (Hmm, whacky turn pf phrase!) My retirement photography project #1 is to invest a chunk of pension cash to fund my Fuji-X to Leica M switch, at last! As it happens, I love some of Fuji's simulation presets, particularly the filmic types and classic neg, so I've just downloaded your amazing looking F&Kified bundle. Thanks for the inspiration.
Back in the early 1900’s Wollensak did something similar with the Verito lens. While all other manufacturers were chasing “optical excellence” by improving sharpness, speed, and coverage, Wollensak purposely left in some of the aberrations to create a dreary look. They were, and still are today, very sought after lenses.
I really enjoy the pictures you have shown in the video. My favorites as of late to be honest.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this amazing piece of equipment!
Loving what LLB are doing! I recently picked up their Elcan replica and being having a lot of fun with it.
Yup, shoot it on a S1H in V log, has a OLPF filter, grade to taste. That sensor and the vintage CSP will get that sweet cine look.
That is really a fascinating lens. The pictures are beautiful! You are so lucky to be able to play with cameras and/or lenses before they are introduced to the public. That makes for another good video topic, unheard of companies making aftermarket photo products. Thanks for another great video!
I'm so hyped for this lens. It reproduce what I am trying to achieve, but never quite achieved to do. Can't wait for it.
One of my favorite lenses to use on APS-C cameras is a Cooke Ivotal 2" (50mm) f/1.4. I'm super excited for this lens to come out to adapt to my GFX. I'm sure it won't fully cover it, but it's designed for full frame, so I'm sure it'll cover most of it (based on my experience with tons of other vintage lenses)
A Cooke Ivotal 50mm f1.4 practically lives on the front of my Fuji X-H1. It's my go to for street and car show photography. Glad to see a fellow admirer.
@@DwayneFuhlhage it's so good and nobody ever talks about it. Like, I bought a GFX over a year ago, so I should really sell my X-T3, but that camera/lens combo is keeping me from selling. I really want to test this lens to see if I can get a similar effect on the GFX. If I can, then I will sell the XT3.
Buyer Beware when ordering from LLL: I ordered the ELCAN last week as the website said it was in stock. I got an email that they are back ordered but mine would ship directly from China this week. Well I emailed this week and now somehow this new lens has caused a further backlog of the lens I ordered last week (???) and it won't ship for another TWO WEEKS. So who knows when (IF) you'll ever get the lens you order from them. They obviously don't have their act together.
Very nice......but I’m sticking with my near perfectly corrected, corner to corner sharp Voigtlander APO Lanthars.
Great explanation of the 'classic' look from vintage lenses. Love your Fujified presets!
One lens: Minolta MD 58 f1.4/Rokkor for the soft wide open character is similar.
Wonderful video TY! The 58mm 1.4 voigtlander lens was my favorite manual focus lens. Love love the details of your lens. Now it will be on my mind all night! Lol 😂
A friend gave me a 50/1.5 Tokyo Optical Simlar designed in the Thirties and it has pretty much lived on my Leicas the last few months. Love it’s vintage rendering. This Cooke could displace it…
Greetings from a fellow photographer just down I35 in Austin! This was such an AWESOME video! Not sure I would pick one of these up, but the history and visuals you shared were incredible! Great video
yup, the look of this replica reminds me the first 50s of nikon (the S Auto 50 1,4 or H Auto 50 f2, two cemented doublets, with low contrast, flares and "glow") Nice lens !
Great video. I would be very interested in a similar video for slower 50 mm lenses, such as the Sony f1.8, the Summicron f2 etc - and indeed, compared to the Sony 50 mm f1.4 as well. Cheers
Great video, very informative...I have this lens on order. Question about the film presets: will they work in the older standalone version 6 of Lightroom?
I'm so hyped for this lens. I've been following it for a while
Looks fantastic, thank you for the review! Can I ask- the photographs you are showing in the video are they all treated with your LR presets? Are some of the photographs untreated? The examples on LLL's website dont look as cinematic as your images...
Love the “Cooke Look“
I work to get that look or a filmic look so often for my work .
I’ve never thought of ever taking control from my work and using a preset. Never and actually well , guess I’m a control freek for my art.
I saw your presets and saw the article when you were working on these presets. I would consider using yours they look very nice and a look I’d trust .
Want the Cooke look? Meyer-Optik Görlitz Domiplan 50mm f2.8. You can literally buy dozens of those, a couple cameras and STILL have change to go travel and make work with your kit🤷🏻♂️ thank me later lol
Amazing video, Ted! Love the depth you went in this and the history too!
Design of the lease is so beautiful
This looks amazing. Thanks for the review. Would have loved to say hi when you were over here in Japan, you've reignited my love for photography over these past years.
Similar rending to my M11 | Summitar 50 (1946 version 10 blade)!!
Looking forward to getting this one. Seems very very cool.
An amazing creative lens!
Very interesting lens..........but MSOptics for me are the best for character and glow.
Thanks for the video !!!!
Outstanding review and I learned something new. Thank you.
I am wondering if I would get better results based on this lens design while using film instead of digital? Can you tell me how the two differ? I would think film would have the more noticeable effect opposed to digital. Thanks!
thanks Ted....love the look created by this lens....
My heart jumped when I saw your Fuji and Kodak presets!❤️ I started with a Minolta XDS and Fuji film was the most affordable! ... .. . sigh..😌 However am I right that these lenses are only made for mirrorless?
Reminds me a little bit of the Leitz Summarit 5cm 1.5
Super cool. This lens has my attention.
The moment I saw the images I immediately thought, this lens would be the cherry on top for a X-Pro3
I believe Godfather 2 was shot primarily on Super Balthars. FYI.
Ted, loving this lens. Thanks for sharing this moments, especially with scenes in Japan!
Nice shots BTW 👌
I'm in love with this lens. When will it be available for purchase?
Very interested in one of these Ted! Thank you for the head's up and the link to Popflash
If anyone wants the "Cooke look" on a budget the Helios 44 gets fairly close...
That thing is gorgeous!
Great lens. Just got one. It should be noted for some oddity this lens doesn’t come with a front lens cap. Trying to find something aftermarket. I’m not a fan of the front element being “nude” all the time even in the case.
Absolutely beautiful! I definitely want one.
3rd time watching this video. They are so stunning. Hey Ted, have you posted these photos anywhere?
Would love to see some video shot with this lens.
Excellent presentation
Really enjoyable and informative video. It’s great that LLLab have taken such an interesting path, pursuing art over technical perfection. Personally I enjoy adapting vintage lenses and the look reminded me of a blend of the look I get from my Pancolar and my Minolta 58 1.4… but native to Leica. I think they’d do well to take the word China off the front of the lens as it doesn’t add anything (I’ve nothing against China, if it said ENGLAND, I’d say the same). I with the team at every success and I may get myself a copy.
Character is so much more satisfying than sharpness.
wow, I love the color!! is there a version for Sony camera?
Do you have a site were we can see samples of all the presets?
Very familiar 'Bokeh' as my 50mm/ f2 Collapsible Summicron. I get donuts in certain out of focus images! Bravo. Latest ultra sharp are not wanted here!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this piece. Any idea of the filter size of the one you used?? I am on the list!
I wonder if Walter Mandler looked at movies using Cooke lenses and either consciuously or unconsciously made his Leica glow lenses with that vision in his head.
I my pixel peep I have some old soft lenses that I love, but that lens looks really soft.
What are you shooting for this video? Looks great.
I'm in love... need to have one
Ooh, this looks fantastic. Might even persuade me to get a full frame body, or a Minolta CLE!
This is super cool, would also be really cool if they made a cine body version, a budge speed panchro for video? Yes please. Oh and I almost forgot, SOAP BUBBLE BOKEH!!!! That alone makes this a day one purchase for me
This is getting interesting, seems the lens works very well in certain light conditions, but nevertheless a welcoming trend.
That was a very interesting and informative video in general. Thank you.
Nice video! The look is quite similar to my CZJ Pancolar f/1.8. Really cool, that they produce those vintage looks in modern lenses now! 👌
I agree with you but pancolar is sharp . I think Jupiter 9 give this look.
Yeah, my Pancolar also have that glow at f1.8