The ARMY OF THE DEAD are eating this $5800 (or more) 35/1.5 Canon RF lens ALIVE!

Mackinaw said:
I watched it. While hardly a candidate for movie of the year, it did keep my interest. Plus visually, it's stunning. Shooting wide-open with these two exotic lenses gives the picture a very unique look.

Jim B.
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Yes - I agree. I watched it and was wondering why such an unusual look, and then read about those lenses.
 
Erik van Straten said:
Raid, I've been looking for this lens ever since - but to no avail - because it would be great on my LTM-cameras. I have Summiluxes 35 on my M-cameras.

Erik.
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When I first used this lens in comparisons of over 30 35mm lenses, it was viewed as a low-performer. After the RFF thread on the lens comparisons, many people here liked the posted images from this lens. I have a pre-asph Lux 35mm too. Mine is the second and not the first version.
 
Not a common lens but one time I saw two for sale at a Toronto camera show in the early 1990s for $300 CDN each...I bought one and it is the lens shown on my avatar ...great lens that I like as much as my fast 35mm Leitz glass.
 
Rob-F said:
Why is that? Do they want to make movies with an old-time look? I've read that they prefer softer lenses for romantic comedies. I'd have thought they already have enough of those, though. Is there something else that is special about classic lenses that is needed for film? Good OOF bokeh, maybe?
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I would imagine it'd be easier to do it in software these days. It doesn't have to be a perfect job to be good enough to get the desired effect, and dealing with old janky lenses has to be kind of annoying when filming a movie.
 
newst said:
Am I missing something here? The lens up for auction does not look at all like the modified lens used to make the film. Am I supposed to believe that the lens was returned to its former condition after all the expense to convert it to a cine lens? Or, maybe, that the owner of the lens in Australia believes that since one copy of that lens was used to film a movie, every copy must be hyper valuable. Then again, I might just be dense.
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A good question. The cine conversion includes an elaborate housing with an M-mount. Could be the original lens is just sitting inside the housing and can be detached as original. Damned if I know
 
I checked on the following website and did not see this lens having been used on any other movie, though it is likely the list is incomplete. There are quite a few 35mm lenses f/1.8 and faster which have been used, so it must be the character of the lens rather than the shallow depth of field wide open that the director was interested in.

https://shotonwhat.com/browse-index/lenses

The budget for the film was reported to be $70-90 million, so a $5000 lens was a drop in the bucket. They probably blew that on catering the first couple of days.
 
I thought that there is a fashion going on to converse old cine lenses so they can be used on M Leicas. Now I understand that in turn old Leica lenses are conversed to fit cine-cameras. What is going on? Maybe both. However, prices of LTM-Leica lenses have also gone up.

Erik.
 
I always lamented the fact folks were stripping old 16mm movie cameras of their lenses to mount on their digital cameras. Now it's SLR and rangefinder lenses converted over to cinema use. Guess people will just follow any old fad to be part of the current movement.

PF
 
I am glad that I already own many RF lenses. I have enough good lenses to enjoy photography. I will not be bothered by some lenses being converted to cine lenses.
 
I think that the seller meant "this type of lens was used"
This lens combined with the Dream lens (50/0.95) were used to film the entire movie "Army of the dead"
 
raid said:
I am glad that I already own many RF lenses. I have enough good lenses to enjoy photography. I will not be bothered by some lenses being converted to cine lenses.
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Ah but raid; what about those of us who don't have enough RF lenses yet??!!! 😱 Supplies are going fast and we're going to be left crying in the gutter 🙁
 
Get lenses before they get more costly. The film makers are very picky on which lenses they want/need for their movies.
 
Nothing to mourn. Many of these lenses languished for decades and are now being put to use for everyone to see. It beats having them sit forgotten in someone's cupboard, glass being slowly eaten away by fungus.
 
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