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by sosodev 73 days ago
These prices are insane. You can buy all (most?) of the lenses they’re recreating for a fraction of the price and adapt them to a mirrorless camera no problem. I bought a Helios 44-2 recently for $100 and adapted it to my camera for like $15.
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realslimjd 73 days ago
There's a difference between adapting for mirrorless versus adapting for cinema. They're not just throwing on an adapter to change the distance to the focal plane, they're actually rehousing the lens. Usually that means adding a de-clicked aperture and reducing focus breathing. These are all primes, but cine lenses are usually parfocal as well.

To your point, none of those things are important if you're just a regular consumer and taking stills, but they're all really nice to have/important if you're working on a film.

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Aurornis 73 days ago
> There's a difference between adapting for mirrorless versus adapting for cinema.

The article says they’re adapting to mirrorless cameras

> As reported by CineD, the new Air series of lenses is designed to cater to the growing number of filmmakers who are using compact, lightweight mirrorless bodies for high-end professional work.

> The IronGlass Air lenses move away from IronGlass’ standard PL-mount cinema design toward compact, mirrorless-friendly designs

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Forgeties79 73 days ago
It doesn’t matter what they’re being put on. I put cinema lenses on Red’s, DSLR’s (5DmkII/t3i back in the day), mirrorless (GH6/BMPCC4K), the works. “Cinema lens” indicates a build type, not what they can mount to. Like the declicked aperture the previous person mentioned.

For instance, Rokinon released a fantastic cinema lens line for consumer/prosumer cameras in the 2010’s, they were rehoused versions of their photo primes. They’re built entirely different.

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rfwhyte 72 days ago
Sure there's a difference, but when you can buy the base lens for $100 and 3D print your own cinema housing for $50, it becomes a lot more odious that IronGlass is charging what amounts to around $2100USD for a metal rehousing that is at most $50 worth of materials and a few hours work per lens.

The "Cinema" industry is notorious for gouging its customers, and this just yet another particularly egregious example of that gouging.

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