Contacted the person who tested the lens and asked him for the test pictures and asked on which body he did the test. His answer: did't save the images and forgot what camera I used. Pffff.....

@vicharris No, this was not Noktor, it was cameranu.nl , great services, no extra costs or what so ever. I call this person tomorrow, maybe he can test again, this time on a gh2 and another camera.

I'm wondering if I should just refuse service, get my money back from my credit card company and spend that $550 somewhere else?

Ok, don't have much time right now but just got the lens in. One things for sure, they ship fast as hell! Or the fact that I asked for a refund might have made them pretty much overnight it from China. Anyways on a VERY basic and rough test, it looks ok. But I need to record some challenging stuff and check it out on my monitor. I'll post as soon as I do. One thing I will say for sure and am pretty pissed at. They pressure you into that damn $50 step up adapter by telling you that it will be $80 if not purchased with the lens, BS Andrew Chan!!!!!!! BS!!!!! I bought a $5 dollar one off of Ebay, S&W photo accessory is the brand and it works perfect! It's the 58-77 step up and I have a Lightcraft Fader ND on it and it works perfectly. So that alone tells you something about this company. The fact they charge $50-$80 for a $5 adapter. Really hope I don't have a reworked $550 CCTV lens.

@DirkVoorhoeve I am about 165km away from Zeeland, in Hilversum, not so close... A test on both camera's is what we need right now. Hopefully CameraNu.nl can do this test on both camera's.

CameraNu.nl will send me another Slr 12mm, If I still have focus problems on my GH2 I can return it, free of posting cost. On my request they gonna test the new lens on a GH2 before sending it to me.

@vicharris For a quick infinity focus test, I used manual focus assist.

Update: Message from Panasonic - Update the firmware. - Setup, enable use without lens.

Well, just woke up and shot a few more quick things. Transcoding now. So far it looks pretty good. The build quality is damn good too! Feels like a tank and it's smooth. Not sure if this is how CCTV lenses feel. I really don't use them and so far no problems with that step up either. Andrew told me they make the lenses focus a little past infinity now to prevent these problems. As for Noktor, besides them not informing me of shipping and the unfriendly return policy, Andrew has been in communication with me daily about my concerns and damn that shipping was fast. 2-3 days from China! That's a good sign but I'll talk to him about that step up ring deal. He says a studio sent him the test results of the problems with some adapters. That's probably true but charging people $50-$80 for a $1 part kinda sucks.

Seems so. BTW, most lenses go a tad beyond infinity to compensate for variations by temperature. Wide angle is difficult – while they have a deeper DOF in front, the flange distance is more critical.

Yep, my Tokina and Rokinon I've purchased recently all do that so it's nothing to be alarmed at.

Sounds like the alarming thing is that noktor didn't do it until people started complaining...

Oh and set right at infinity. Still had a little room to go if I needed it.

Here's a quick screenshot from Paramount today. Looks pretty damn good to me.

@vicharris You're picture and video are closer to what I was expecting from this lens. Nice to know that some of them are pretty good. I am expecting the exchanged lens to come early next week, fingers crossed and hoping for a good copy.

@RawB

As I remember, it is possible adjusting screws.

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