Sat Jul 21, 2018 5:32 pm
The 9.5 Optar had slight darkening at the corners, so the 8mm will be more so. If you can deal with that, you should be fine. Sounds like the 12mm is off centered, which you should be able to get fixed.
The advantages of the Elite, is they are still around making S35 lenses and Anamorphic glass. I think they also stopped production of the S16 line, but just in the last year or so, and they still have inventory, last time I checked. Also some S16 Elites come up on eBay at good prices lately. Their is an Optika Elite (similar to Illuminas) 8mm, T/1.2 on eBay US site for good price, condition looks excellent.
I have my 9.5mm Mk4 Elite for sale (Mint in new condition) if you are interested. This is an Ultra Wide on the Broadcast camera’s 1-inch sensor, similar AOV to putting a 7.5mm on a 2/3rds ENG camera, which is where the ENG WA zooms normally start, and some 7.5mm. But going wider than 9.5, and more distortion starts creeping in. I find 11mm is working for me for my wide shots, (close to a 10mm on 2/3rds) with the Duclos 11-16 compact Tokina Zoom.
I am also looking at an Angie HR B4 Servo Zoom 8.3-125 f/1.7, but then you are back to the light sucking B4 Mount, so the f/1.7 is more like a f/2.0, still not bad.
Cheers
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Denny Smith on Sun Jul 22, 2018 6:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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