When leica lenses are not enough

[Carlos cruz]

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I wonder why they decided to have them in m mount, as there are not many cine cameras with this mount. Whenever budget permits I usually pick Cooke lenses for their character. Never thought they’d make cheaper version

https://ymcinema.com/2023/09/05/cooke-announces-sp3-lenses-for-full-frame-mirrorless-cameras/?fbclid=IwAR1VxKapwIDqejcDs6tcNA_-DLWLcZvYNj2NrUZi0cfTVZt_HPPFfyLGM_U

Edited September 5, 2023 by Carlos cruz

[Anbaric]

They say they are targeting mirrorless cameras, where I suppose M mount makes sense as a 'universal' standard, since there are M adapters for every system and they are fully manual lenses anyway. Otherwise they'd have to make a separate version for each mirrorless system and it would be tied to that system.

[Carlos cruz]

47 minutes ago, Al Brown said:

M mount is very popular, even ARRI has a M adapter and there is a whole line of M cine lenses called 0.8 from Leitz Cine.

 

I am aware of that, but never seen m mount front on arri, and Leica soon moved from 0.8 to Hugo line which is just repackaged m lenses without 0,7 mfd

[Carlos cruz]

M lenses were never widely used for cinematography work in my backwater. We only have short selection of PL or Pv lenses and arri b mount for students ;-] maybe e-mount/ b4 for ENG work

Edited September 5, 2023 by Carlos cruz

[Erato]

The Leica M-mount will be available in early 2024.

[hansvons]

I would be surprised if they couple with the  range finder.

No PL-Mount. Highly interesting lenses though. If I were in the market, I‘d take a pretty close look at them.

[Ecar]

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36 minutes ago, hansvons said:

I would be surprised if they couple with the  range finder.

Me too.

[pgk]

13 hours ago, Carlos cruz said:

Never thought they’d make cheaper version

The Cooke 'Summarit' range😁. Sony is a fairly obvious mount choice given the nature and quantity of mirrorless cameras available. M mount seems like a peripheral for movie shooting to me, although there are and have been M mount video cameras produced, howver it looks as though Cooke intend to go down this route: https://cookeoptics.com/lens/sp3/ with a user changeable mount (E, RF, L & M). I would assume that this means that there will be no rf coupling though. They are all spherical designs.

How they will work on stolls cameras remains to be seen although I have no dubt that they will be quite usable but perhaps with an old fashioned signature.

Edited September 6, 2023 by pgk

[Carlos cruz]

22 minutes ago, pgk said:

The Cooke 'Summarit' range😁. Sony is a fairly obvious mount choice given the nature and quantity of mirrorless cameras available. M mount seems like a peripheral for movie shooting to me, although there are and have been M mount video cameras produced, howver it looks as though Cooke intend to go down this route: https://cookeoptics.com/lens/sp3/ with a user changeable mount (E, RF, L & M). I would assume that this means that there will be no rf coupling though. They are all spherical designs.

How they will work on stolls cameras remains to be seen although I have no dubt that they will be quite usable but perhaps with an old fashioned signature.

I believe they will be too big and heavy for day to day use on m cameras. I have some hopes for old arri b mount lenses that rental company has retired, love the small size.

[mirekti]

This just means we’ll get the video back with M12. 🤪😎🫣

[RexGig0]

When a 24-70mm zoom SLR lens was my usual walk-about and travel lens, I noticed that I tended to frame many of the images about half-way between 28mm and 35mm, so, a 32mm fixed-focal-length lens does tend to capture my attention. I could shoot monochrome video, on an M Type 246 Monochrom camera. 🙂

[Carlos cruz]

1 hour ago, RexGig0 said:

When a 24-70mm zoom SLR lens was my usual walk-about and travel lens, I noticed that I tended to frame many of the images about half-way between 28mm and 35mm, so, a 32mm fixed-focal-length lens does tend to capture my attention. I could shoot monochrome video, on an M Type 246 Monochrom camera. 🙂

There was alexa monochrome, arri released it same year when Leica did first monochrome.

1 hour ago, mirekti said:

This just means we’ll get the video back with M12. 🤪😎🫣

I never considered using video on m240, the idea of dynamic compression rate wasn’t well aimed at professional use. Maybe if they implement better video on m12 but I’d rather shoot moving pictures on arri and still pics on leica

[RexGig0]

2 hours ago, Carlos cruz said:

There was alexa monochrome, arri released it same year when Leica did first monochrome.

I never considered using video on m240, the idea of dynamic compression rate wasn’t well aimed at professional use. Maybe if they implement better video on m12 but I’d rather shoot moving pictures on arri and still pics on leica

Thanks, but, thankfully, I am not a professional. 🙂 I might try an SL-series body, sooner or later, or a Nikon Z camera, which would allow becoming somewhat more serious about video. (My wife and I share the Nikon F-mount system, and she already has a Z6. She is a Texas Master Naturalist, so we occasionally shoot very serious macro, which means we will not be quitting Nikon.)