rick.lang wrote:Several of us have the SLR Magic APO primes so I think we shall see some samples on the forum soon enough.
I’ve wondered why there isn’t anything official about lenses but I imaging the company leaves it up to the forum members to post samples. There are scores of good lens families so it might be very difficult for them to do justice to all the kinds of lenses we use. We could start a thread for people to post results for the new 12K sensor though, although we also have the Official thread to do that too.
It's too new and early to easily tell, and putting it here is only going make it hard for most users to notice, as many people won't come here. They are best sending a camera and some test charts around the manufactures to send back samples of which lenses are most appropriate. There is just a problem with testing different focus, zoom and iris effects. Big manufacturers will have their own individual test rigs, and you simply could order a video sweep of focus for each iris setting, but then you have to do all again for each zoom setting, and all of that again fir different light levels. 1x16x60x10,000 seconds not footage, too much. Cutting that back 1 (1 second 60 frame focus sweep) x16 (iris) x16 (zoom levels) x20 (light levels 10 low light) seconds= 5120 second test suites might be a good test, on a 3D test scene. You just fast forward and see if anything looks off at any time). That's maybe 512 seconds of fast forwards. The problem is setting up the angles of light in parrallel to test for various lens issues. The outer limits of the box. But, yeah, a listing and a few test samples instead is a start, people will converge on certain lenses, and the first couple of owners can report issues. But, that's just what I would do.
So, Rick, you could request to run a closed sticky top thread, where people submit lenses links and spec, and you approve the post, and modify as needed, and a second stick discussion thread, otherwise not even forum owners will find it easy to find good posts on all the best lens after they get burried eventually. There should be a lens sub forum with such sticky top threads, and an rigging accessories sub-forum, and post processing sub-forum.b such sticky info and frequently asked questions threads answer most questions without users have to reason them because theybare burried. But that's just what I would do.