08-08-2015, 10:06 AM
Quote:Thank you so much for this review. I had this lens in my sights for some time now, and my wallet is very grateful for the sobering test results.
This lens has an obvious C-mount sibling in Kowa's LM8XC for industrial applications, which is rated at 160lp/mm in the center.
At 13mm sensor height, this would amount to 4160 lw/ph. I'm wondering: Is it possible that the industrial precursor was designed for a different sensor stack, and Kowa simply re-housed that lens instead of adapting the optical design for MFT consumer cameras?
Unlikely IMHO. I have never seen a 1:1 adoption on a different format but then I am not a lens designer.