Best Lenses to use with EX1 & Letus Extreme 35mm?

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Very soon I'll be ordering a Sony PMW-EX1, and have been very impress with the footage that users have posted on how shallow a DoF they've been able to get with the camera (Philip Bloom, etc.), and especially when they use the Letus Extreme 35mm adaptor.

Not having used an adaptor before I had a few questions on this:

1. Does the Letus use standard 35mm SLR lenses (cheaper), or does it require Cinema quality 35mm lenses (wayyyy expensive)?

2. I believe the answer is SLR, if so what are people using, Nikkon, Carl Zeiss, etc?

3. Is it better to get a set of 4 fixed length lenses or one or two zoom lenses?

4. If you had to get 'one' lens to start with for using with the adaptor what would you get?

Thanks,

~Jonathan
 
Racker99 said:
Very soon I'll be ordering a Sony PMW-EX1, and have been very impress with the footage that users have posted on how shallow a DoF they've been able to get with the camera (Philip Bloom, etc.), and especially when they use the Letus Extreme 35mm adaptor.
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I have used Canon FD lenses for years on various film cameras. The 50mm f1.4 is a really great lens- it performed much better than my Angenieux I paid big bucks for. Nikon glass is great too, but I enjoy my old Canon lenses. You can pick new ones up for cheap on eBay.
 
prime lenses to start with and as fast as possbile. Nikons are good because second hand fast ones are plentiful and still quite cheap. Zooms have to be f2.8 all the way through which tend to cost a bit and aren't very useful in low light.

i have list of my lenses of my blog, but I started with a 28mm f2, 50mm f1.4 and 85mm f1.4
 
The beauty of the old Nikon and Canon FD lenses, unlike the Canon EOS lenses, is that you have an aperture ring on them that you can use to control the f-stop. EOS lenses require you to have a Canon EOS camera, then do something funky with the DOF preview button, then dismount the EOS lens and put it on your adapter. There are, however, numerous adapters from EOS mount to Nikon mount that photographers like me use to put their old Nikon AIS lenses on a Canon EOS camera. So you could conceivably get an EOS mount film lens adapter for your video camera, then buy cheap adapters to mount virtually any lens to the EOS mount. I think I'd go Nikon though because of the build quality of the lenses, the cheap prices of good used glasses, and most importantly the old school aperture ring.
 
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