SLR Magic announces 23mm F1.7 for Sony NEX's E-mount

Curiously, though, Dpreview has tested "fast" lens performance at bright outdoor events or settings. Low light settings often feature lamps or candles, which are apt to turn into huge halos if the aperture is wide. I don't know (but imagine) that HQ glass may reduce that, but I don't have an idle $1k sitting around just to find out. A review that included sample low light scenes with lamps in the frame, or slightly off-frame, would be worth 1k dollars or words.

With focus peaking and an EVF, you won't ever want to use AF again.

OneGuy - you are certainly missing something - like the depth of field of a 24mm lens which makes AF superfluous in most cases. No experience with pro lenses, eh? Should try getting into a studio - meanwhile keep pounding the asphalt.

They actually improved the hyperprime after buying out Noktor too, I didn't believe this at first but if you look at the Steve Huff reviews there is a pretty big difference in contrast and saturation when he tests the revised version on a Sony NEX. The lens is still pretty soft wide open but the actual results are a lot more pleasing to the eye. I would probably still choose the Voigtländer 50mm f/1.1 Nokton over it but there's no denying that they have made a noticeable improvement in the IQ

The macro tube is fairly straight forward in theory, the bigger the macro tube you use the closer you can get to the subject and the higher the magnification you can achieve, what this ring does is extend by turning a ring so instead of having to change rings to change the magnification ratio you just adjust the length of the one tube, it's simple but effective!

Problem with thinking only about yourself is, it is dump to discount what other people's needs are. In movie, they have everything they want in the shot the way they want it lined up, not moving or moving the way they need it to. Of course you don't need AF for that. Any idiot can MF still subject or subject that moves they way you ordered them to. But can you MF entire game of Soccer? Or how about an Airshow? You need AF when shooting unpredictable subject, BECAUSE you don't know better than your camera when, say, tracking a fast moving plane that's banking left or right in unpredictable pattern.
MF is pretty reliablt when everything is set up the way you want it to. Everthing else in life tends not to be.

@ ProfHankD: Appreciate the bit about "lens IQ." Nowhere to be found on Wikipedia even, phew.... Actually, I was sort of hoping that is some sort of a complex numerical calculation that gives an objective number on a scale of 100. But if it is a subjective evaluation of the quality, well, who is to say then, hmmm?

@ AbrasiveReducer: Quite in agreement with ya' on that. Saying "ZEISS" or "LEICA" these days probably means that they are NOT made in Germany. Maybe partially designed there and built elsewhere? So, a "CARL ZEISS" of 40 years ago was a West German lens (unless it was the GDR Jena Zeiss lens, which was just as excellent). But these days, it could be made in Malaysia, for all we know.

Problem I see with the CosinaZeisses and PanaLeicas is that once you start to dislike the lens for some reason, who you really gonna be blaming? Good thing with the NOKTOR/SLR MAGIC is, there are no partners on the scene (yet).

you don't seem to bright, i linked to a cctv lens! some more info for ya...

http://www.adlinc.co.jp/product/index.html
(bottom lens on the list)

and fyi both the noktor and senko cctv lens have 8 aperure blades.

Francis, you might want to check the Rodenstock first, before getting all haha:
http://www.graham-mitchell.com/blog/?p=43
That monster is an ultrawide lens for the 645 format and could probably sink an iceberg.

@Nigel, perfect for me, if I'm limited to a single focal length on a single camera. I usually shoot 3 cameras with 3 primes, 24,35, and 85 (FF). Of the three focal lengths, 35mm (or 23/24 on APS) is by far my most indisposable.

If I had to stick with a single lens for the rest of my life, it would be 35mm FF equiv field of view.

Granted, I probably should have qualified 'perfect' with 'for me'.