Thanks a lot for recommending this video by Matt Osborne, Philip!
It’s really flippin amazing!
Matt couldn’t find a rentable/testable Leica cine lens in the huge city of London - which already says a lot!
I personally preferred the Thypoch IQ in the comparison - simply intuitive impression from the compressed YouTube file on my phone - what DZO has done here in creating a full set of Cine Lenses that clearly compete 1:1 in IQ with the horrendously expensive Leica counterpart is very very commendable!
How great that we get these as stills lenses and can use for video if desired!
I remember that cosina made a big deal about how complex their non-click aperature ring mechanism is. Making the lens much heavier and expensive. Now here comes Thypoch and gives each lens a click less aperature ring with a super simple switch and doesn’t charge “extra”
Good times indeed!!!
I would be so f’ing pissed if I were Leica 😂
Testing to see if the following pic from the simera 35 can be viewed via link.
I love the acutance on this very holy cow!
philip_pj wrote:
This brief comparison by Matt Osborne is a revelation. What I see here is: a warmer color temperature;
significantly better highlight detail retention;
smoother edge shaping of objects (the effect of the circular aperture);
larger bokeh balls with better integration into the image;
a dreamy relaxing rendering.
He used the cine version of the Simera 35mm, which has two additional blades to its aperture for near-perfect circularity. The stills version gives away very little from having 'only' 14 blades.
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