800 pounds for the 8.5 ?

Way too expensive. At least the 8.5mm ...

only one gear ring on aperture????

@endotoxic hahahahahaha that's funny. Is their management style baby steps?? One thing at a time?

New lenses.

http://kowa-prominar.com/news/2014/0920-1.html

yes its on ebay for 1200 euro. However, when you look at this website:

http://jintarow.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/kowa-prominar-8-5mm-f2-8/

there are photos, and one of them is the lens with the pricetag in the store. In this photo it costs only 90000 yen, which is about 640 euro. Maybe the seller on ebay just wants to make some big profit from it to be the first? Looks to me this lens would be about 800-1000 euro in europe, 650 in japan.

The photos I've seen from this lens look promising. If the price is right I'm getting it, since I need a wide to fill out my lens collection.

Preorder

• 12mm F1.8 - http://www.ebay.com/itm/181645746482
• 25mm F1.8 - http://www.ebay.com/itm/181646633157

Kowa 8.5mm

https://news.mapcamera.com/KASYAPA.php?itemid=27013

There are many things to make a lens dedicated for cinema. Here the tag is for the distortion I guess (which is quite good considering the focal).

Constant color and aperture between the same two lenses with low vignette and distortion is usually what Cinema lens are about but this is more or less a "hollywood standard" rather than a "true cinema look" experience because you only need to be good to do that. The purpose is to have same color reproduction, light and bokeh in the film and have lens that match almost perfectly for stereoscopic rig. Best filmmakers didn't really gave a damn about having only one set of prime lenses that reproduce exactly the same colors, distortion and vignetting. TV series on the opposite wants that.