Switars Vs kinetals

Fulgencio Martinez · February 12, 2005

Hi,

Wich are the sharpest of these primes? Is there experience on S16?

Thanks

February 12, 2005

The Switars are, of course, C-mount lenses, and the Cooke Kinetals are almost always in an Arriflex standard mount (I think I may have seen one Kinetal in a C-mount on Ebay once), so it's unlikely that you'd be using both on the same camera.

I have a 12.5mm Kinetal in an Arri mount which I bought to use with my CP16R (with an adapter) and it covers Super-16. I'm told that the 9mm Kinetal does not cover Super 16. The one I have has a bit machined out of it at the back to allow it to clear the mirror on cameras like the SR. It's a good performer, but even without comparing images side by side I know it's not as snappy as a Zeiss. Unfortunately I don't have a comparable Switar to compare it to.

Some day I hope to do a test on all the various lenses I've accumulated so that I could say with some assurance that this one performs better than that one. I have some interesting old glass (like a 12-120 Sopelem and 15-150 Canon) and I'm curious what kind of images they'll produce.

Fulgencio Martinez · February 13, 2005

Hi,

i own an Eclair acl with arri standard adapter so i can use both.

Do you think cooke kinetals will be good enough for a blow up. I have heard about lens flare, but for many proyects this is something i even enjoy. Is sharpnes good?