Notice the longer throw toward f/0.95. After f/4, the aperture ring has very short throw. I kinda like the aperture ring design for this particular lens.

@EricSF I don't know man, I think that step down is female to female. I have one in another size here thats female to female. It's amazon prime so if it's wrong, you can always return it for free! Or maybe I can since I have Prime.

Sold my Voigtlander 25 and one of my gh2's to buy the 12mm 1.6 and this new 25mm .95 from SLRmagic. Shot this video for a contest and was very impressed with the performance of both lenses.

Wide shots are obviously the 12mm and everything else is the 25mm with both lenses from wide open to around T2. A few ex-tele shots that were also cropped by almost 200% in post that don't look bad at all.

"but for some reason it went to Alaska next"

Sarah Palin has to do a Quality Control Test. Probably shooting video of her Russian neighbors with ETC mode.

Yep, mine will be here monday too.

@vicharris, @griplimited Do they send shipping confirmation through email?

@albert_ang They give a UPS tracking number so you can see exactly whats going on. They did the same with my 12mm lens.

@vicharris

I don't think that anyone sawr your posts as stirring up trouble, and there were solid counterpoints to your concerns here in the thread. Glad that you got the official SLR ring, this will allow you to do some comparisons as well so you can judge the quality.

Personally, I wish I could get similar step ups for the rest of my glass, this coupled with XUME adapters would be great.

Edit:

So I did notice something with the focus wheel that I've only really seen on older Nikkors and some odd ball newer primes, it's not a big deal to me but the focus ring DOES have a VERy slight bit of play when switching directions, you basically have to look for it to feel it because you won't see it having any effect on the image.

Basically, it doesn't move the picture. My only thought was that it may not have been tightened down so I asked SLR and that's just how it's designed. Having used the voigt, I can say that it's a very different mechanical design and a lot of people will feel that the Voigtlander is much more mechanically sound.

I think they're just different... the Voigtlander is really a 1200.00 lens and you can bring this comparison up when deciding on the glass, but the SLR does everything I need it to do and I actually REALLY love the way it feels and behaves despite the small flaws. For the price, I'm more than happy overlooking or getting used to these things...

And it's damned sharp wide open and bokeh is great at all apertures, did i mention that? xD

Can't wait for the 35, really hope they consider something wider than 12 and something in between 12 and 25 to round out the HyperPrime lineup.

@vicharris -- You still might think that it's not worth it, but at the very least you'll be able to really quantify why with the experience. xD

Me thinks the 35/1.4 is a pretty good purchase, to be honest. From what I've seen IQ bests the Rokinon which I Believe is the only other modern 35/1.4 available near that price range. Just hanging on for the 35/0.95... X_X

So I've gone out and shot some stuff just to see what it looks like on the screen and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. Especially for the price. I'll wait till I get back out at Santa Monica Pier and do a shoot with the 12mm, 25mm and 35mm SLR lens till I post something. The iris ring is really smooth as is the focus, though the focus is dampened heavier than my 12 and 35. Might just need to be used a bit but no big deal. As everyone say it's built like a tank. I'd feel alot safer dropping one of these on the ground as opposed to a Rokinon. The one thing so far far that I don't understand is the "Hood" that slides up. I don't think it's really large enough to do any real good and because of this design, they sell the custom step up ring. Maybe I'm just not understanding why you need it, especially since they offer the step up ring. It seems like they knew people were going to be putting filters and what not on the lens, why else sell a $50 step up ring. If this is the case, why have the hood? I don't know. Other than that though, I really love the colors coming out of this lens. I'll have to do a side by side with my Rokinon 24mm Cine but the SLR seems less clinical in my eyes. Could be just a placebo.

On another note, I received that 49 to 49 mm coupler in the male and it seems like it will work just perfect. Now I have to make sure the 77 to 49 step down ring is female to female. If so, that would be an option for people who don't have the step up ring.

So I decided to shoot a cute little fluffy stuffed animal with all three of my SLR lens so people can see how they cut. I've used the 12mm 1.6, the 25mm .95 and the 35mm 1.4.

All three of the pics have a file number on the top so people can try and pick out each lens. I must say I'm really impressed with the cheap 35mm 1.4 lens.

Shot using Moon 5, 200 ISO at T4.

@nomad That's what I'm thinking. I'm going to add my Nikon 50mm 1.4 AIS to these three and I think I'm good to go for low profile shooting for sure. A 17.5mm would be nice but I'm probably just wasting money that can go into production elsewhere.