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See the following post by @philip_pj - and the attached lens diagrams
Original post by Philip on the simera 50 review thread page 26:
https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1878983/25/
This is how our master researcher concludes his post:
And many online people are seeing it unfold in front of their eyes. Good times at last. The ancien regime has been rocked, but their products will have to improve now. Or they won't make it.
I wholeheartedly agree - it’s now time for a changing of the (avant) garde
Leica designs for optical perfection to resolve twice the necessary line pairs and their new lenses are ready for 100mpix sensors easy . For sure you pay for that, both in terms of cash and character
I always wanted Leica esque IQ - and won’t pay Leica prices - that fund their parent company Blackroc k , which in my personal opinion is as evil a company as we have playing parasite on this beautiful world.
I’m so happy to pay a fraction of Leica glass and get such satisfying images! After only one day of testing OMG!
philip_pj wrote:
Lenses encourage the kind of photography they are good at doing. The Simeras encourage the kind of photography that is quite different from regular modern stills photo lenses - there are ways of using them that make them very different from the usual fare. Not much of a reveal - it is PEOPLE photography. And these above are a pleasure to see, mate.
On the 35mm, it came out and was met with a storm of derision. It looked different, it was based on an M lens (let's forget all the 'Sonnars' over the decades), it came after the first wave of cheap Chinese lenses that had less than great build quality, and it did not have stellar image quality (as measured by MTF). So nearly everyone dismissed it.
The aperture index marks were oddly spaced - never mind that no one ever bothered to find this was a long-established way of giving the operator more gradation at the wide end where it matters. But it seemed to offend the linear thinking of many people. Thypoch (really DZO, the established cine company) looked and felt to the establishment like an interloper on their turf.
The people that loved it were a few YouTubers who already had the other foot in the door of video and what I call 'light cinema' ('solo operators' in the cine world) - and they loved the qualities it has, things that the stills world did not even see.
I am weakening on buying it too, simply because of the glass these people use - the 35/1.4 has NO ED glass in its nine elements, but it does have three HRI elements and just one aspherical element. No one needs to know this, but I am here to tell anyone interested in it.
Did you know the fancy glass many of the non-Chinese in the field (Leica, Zeiss, Cosina) use for correction these days - 'anomalous partial dispersion' or APD - was almost unheard of only 20 years ago? They are still learning how to make it and use it.
They also haven't even figured out how to include simple aperture mechanisms with enough blades to get rid of the ugly bokeh balls at f2-f2.8-f4! These guys have been around for 50-100 years! WTH. So the new lens makers have already opened up a lead on them, you could say, and they don't even know it.
But the Chinese (and Korean) makers we often see now, they come from and/or are very interested in the cine world, and they are fast learners, where the old brigade are equally fast to forget, and they treat their user base like the proverbial.
The 50mm is an unadulterated gem in my book. Mine works just great on the standard Sony mount, for what it was intended for. But some people, they get a new lens and the first thing they want to see is the last 40 pixels in each corner! No good there, is a lens fail for them! It's unbelievable but that is where we are at. The lens producers are apparently supposed to make corners as good as centers.
At times, I try telling them the Simeras (like many cine lenses) are *designed* to lose resolution/contrast/ sharpness in corners. Their MTF shows this effect very clearly and consistently. It's not poor optical development, it is intentional.
And the really crazy thing is that the Chinese are bringing to stills photography an era of taste and aesthetics - you see it in the great packaging, their customer interfaces, the thoughtful and information-rich websites etc.
Luckily for them, we have an internet (still) so gatekeeping won't work like it once did. And many online people are seeing it unfold in front of their eyes. Good times at last. The ancien regime has been rocked, but their products will have to improve now. Or they won't make it....Show more →
Edited on Oct 27, 2025 at 08:47 PM · View previous versions
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have to test it first 
