Comments on: "Its a kinda magic" – Video review of the SLR Magic 50mm T0.95 Hyperprime lens

By: amitchell

amitchell — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:05:04 +0000

Now imagine if they made an ef mount version, and then use it with the Metabones Speed Booster…. That would bee insane.

By: charlesmackenziehill

charlesmackenziehill — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:12:24 +0000

Great post Matthew. enjoyable! Great looking lens. Slightly off subject , you also picked my interest re then ND filter behind you. Would love know more about how about you controlled the windows there .

Thanks Matthew.

Happy New Year to you and your readers

By: tata steva

tata steva — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:27:48 +0000

Hey Matt,

Thanks for clarifying it!
On the other hand, it is not clear to me why there would be a “M mount” lens in “2 versions”? If your M mount lens focuses on F700, than it means that in order to focus on Leica M body, it needs an adapter…
As far as “rumors” I mentioned, here is the full quote from your friend Andrew:

“Dear All,

We are now working on lenses for anamorphic and cancelled all RangeFinder coupled lens projects due to too much effort in defending our brand from Leica community attacks. It had been tiring for us and tiring for moderators of many websites. It is hard to develop in a market where users do not want another alternative to Leica lenses and that is understandable. Hopefully when the HyperPrime LM 50mm T0.95 get acceptance as a new third party lens we will consider to continue future RangeFinder coupled lens projects again.

I have mentioned in personal-view today with our decision on RF coupled lenses.

“A lot of damage was done to us when we got attacked by the Leica community by releasing the 50mm T0.95 lens. We cancelled the HyperPrime LM 35mm T0.95 and HyperPrime LM 24mm T1.4 for Leica camera project and went along with the HyperPrime CINE 35mm T0.95 and anamorphics project instead due to lack of user support in the Leica community.”

source: Most wanted ANAMORPHIC lens – Personal View Talks

Kind rgds.,
Andrew Chan”

I found it here:
http://www.getdpi.com/forum/leica-m-x-r/41540-slr-magic-press-release.html

Please, don’t shoot the messenger…

By: Matthew Allard

Matthew Allard — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:07:38 +0000

Hi Tata,

The version of the lens I have is a non RF version, there are two available. The RF version is a lot more expensive. This lens focuses to infinity on my Sony FS700 with no problems. It is the F3 where it won’t. So saying they won’t work on any large sensor video camera is not true.

As for SLR Magic stopping production of M mount lenses well that is completely false! I am currently testing another of their new Leica M mount lenses at the moment. I know Andrew from SLR Magic personally. I will take his word over posts on the internet. There will always be fan boys for all types of brands. It is a big compliment to SLR Magic that Leica fan boys feel threatened enough to complain about a competitor.

This lens is not for everyone and It is not massed produced.