There's a Kickstarter for cinema lenses built specifically for the micro 4/3 mount. Some very respectable names on the video talking about the lenses, especially Matthew Duclos, who helped with the optics design!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/665053329/veydra-m4-3-cinema-lenses-for-gh4-and-bmpcc
What is Veydra?
Veydra is a premium cinema lens made specifically for filmmakers using Micro 4/3 cameras.
Veydra Mini Prime lenses all feature
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Does anyone have any info regarding the Meike Lenses being replicas (or the same glass) as the Veydras? Are made from the same factory that used to make the Veydras?
The largest collection of Veydra sample footage online all in one spot.
https://jonpais.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/veydra-mini-primes-the-nearly-complete-collection/
50mm T2.2 Lens Tests
85mm T2.2 tests
Comparison to Zeiss CP.2
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as a leading small manufacturer of things people need, we sometimes get the trend too early. We jumped on one such early trend with the 4K anamorphic shooting modes found in cameras like the Panasonic GH4 when we announced the Veydra 2X Mini Anamorphic Project last spring at NAB Show 2015. We did in fact spend a fair amount of money and months of design and prototype efforts in 2015 on the 2X Mini Anamorphic. We found that our high quality standards and risk of manufacturing this specialty lens would cause many problems in delivering the best quality product. We therefore announce that we have discontinued the 2X Mini Anamorphic project.
Veydra’s lenses definitely score higher than the competition for build and professional features. Optically, in the main, the lenses live up to expectations. All but the 25mm are a little soft wide open, with the 50mm and the 12mm the worst offenders. The 25mm is remarkably good at T2.2 – it’s center resolution only starts to fall off with diffraction at smaller apertures. The other lenses all peak in performance around T5.6, with edges softer than center for the 25mm, 16mm and 12mm. These lenses have image circles that only cover the Four Thirds sensor, whilst the 50mm and 35mm will (just) cover S35. We took measurements on a MFT camera, so these edge results are not surprising. Diffraction limits the resolution of all these lenses on MFT cameras from T11.
http://www.definitionmagazine.com/journal/2015/12/1/review-veydra-mft-prime-lenses
85mm performs just like the other Veydras, so much so it’s downright boring. And that’s a good thing.
The lens captures a crisp, contrasty image with no noticeable lateral chromatic aberration. The image is flat as a pancake: I couldn’t see any distortion at all, not so much as a single pixel’s deviation in a straight line running along the edge of the picture.
The sweet spot for the 85mm is from T2.8 to T5.6, where its images are razor-sharp. At T2.2 the image is softer, if only slightly; as you close it down to T8 and below diffraction takes its toll.
http://www.dvinfo.net/article/acquisition/first-look-veydra-85mm-t2-2-mini-prime.html
This is a short scene from Ophelia Hodgson's movie “Mahal Expensive Love” that is being filmed on Maui. I shot this on the Panasonic GH4. The Veydra 16mm Mini Prime lens was used on the opening shot when she is walking in, the Olympus 12mm f1.8 on the leg shots (cropped in post) and the Olympus 45mm f1.8 for the face close ups.
These various Film Emulation Clips were all shot with the Veydra 16mm and GH4.
Clips 3 & 5 were shot with the Veydra 16mm T2.2 on the GH4. Note - there is a dissolve between clip 1 & 2.
The wider angle views here were shot with the Veydra 16mm T2.2 on the GH4. Close ups were shot with the Olympus 45mm f1.8 on the BMPCC.
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