dream_beam, i believe you have every right to a FULL refund, there should be no cost to you if the manufacturer has admitted the lens will not be sold again as it doesn't operate as it should.

I for one will be steering clear of anything SLRmagic in future.

yes, with tracking number and all

I send the Slr magic back as a D.O.A , they tested the lens and had no infinity focus problem. Is Noktor right and is it a GH2 problem? I phone them tomorrow to ask on which camera they tested the lens. They want to send me another Slr but I'm not sure if I want the lens.

Just some thoughts:

I wonder if this infinity focus problem is more of a not-perfectly-alligned-glas-elements-problem. If one side is worse than the other....tilt shift lenses come to mind (the plane of sharp focus is crossing the sensor, not beeing parallel to it). If one of the several glas elements in the lens are not perfectly in line and perfectly parallel to the sensor, one will get a good infinity focus in one spot but not the rest of the picture. If the lens is only tested with one process/machine (e.g. with laserbeams) the result might be "good" without giving proper focus when taking a real picture. Some other effects decribed here point in the same direction (black corners,..).

Andrew emailed me and he said that since the GH2 is a prosumer camera, that it's mount is not built add well as the AF100. The mount comes loose and causes all the problems. So what I get out of that is that the Noktor lens we made for professional cameras only. He said after every person who claimed of focus sent the camera back to panasonic to be repaired, the lenses worked. Sounds weird to me. Anyone here have to send their GH2 back? They also said that they shouldn't have to warn GH2 users about this. Andrew likened it to telling someone who buys a car that they need to change the oil. Not a very customer support response and kind of off base if you ask me.

Also, it appears as though their system had an error with my email and UPS causing me not to be notified of shipment. Since I didn't hear anything I asked for it to be cancelled. He now says, even with the admission of the error, that I can send it right back to them, pay for shipping of course and no more than a 20% restocking fee! Are they f*#@king kidding? They admitted a problem and still expect the customer to pay over $100 for the return? There's a problem here and Andrew is watching these boards. I would suggest nobody orders this lens until they can try it out on their own camera.

Can everyone who has infinity focus issues state how old their GH2 model is? This might prove to be good info to determine if camera age has an effect on the infinity focusing.

Same Video on Vimeo, so you can download original file.

Has anyone tried sending an e-mail to Panasonic about this yet? I will try contacting them this evening.

@fosterchen Going to download the file and check it out right now

Just talked to Pana and they checked with upper support management and they've never heard of the lens mounts being loose. Not sure if they are just hiding info because I haven't dealt with their customer support in that manner. Sounds like a bunch of BS to me from Noktor. I would hold off buying one of these lens unless it's from a brick and mortar still till this is figured out.

@dtr I wouldn't trust any tests at Noktor. My lens should be in today, maybe. I'll test it in the real world and see what happens since it seems like it's going to cost me $150 just to send it back to them even if I don't open it! Great customer service!! Like I said, I'll try to get over to samys camera and test it out there. I would love for this lens work but too many people are having problems. Who here had a good working production lens they've received in the past few months?