FS5: 2 ?'s dealing with my Fs5, adapter and long lens

GaryinCalifornia

GaryinCalifornia

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Well I finally pulled the trigger. My Fs5 will be here on Tuesday. My first major camera purchase since my DVX. I've always rented higher end cameras for most of my movie work or other work.

I ordered it with the kit lens. Figure a poor man's zoom might come in handy once in a while.

And I'm buying my friends Rokinon's DS Cine lens for a good deal.

They're Nikon mount because he used them for his Blackmagic. So I'll have the 10, 16, 24, 35, 50, 85 & 100 (macro) and he's also throwing in a Sigma 18 to 35 1.8.

So my two ?'s. I heard the Novaflex (hopefully I remembered the name correctly) is the best Nikon F mount to E. Since the 10, 16 & the Sigma are APS lens.

And what would be the best 200 or longer, reasonable price lens to match the Rokinon look. I like to do some car stuff and stack the frame so that looking at the vehicles straight on and from the rear they appear closer than they are.
 
Have a look at the Sigma MC11, Its probably the best choice the use with the Sigma. The Rokinon 135 f2 is just over 200mm with the crop on the fs5, its also fairly cheap. Hope this helps!
 
Thanks... I'm thinking of adding the 135... but lol I still think of 35mm film lens instead of full frame... thats what happens when your young. :)
 
Some may laugh, but the old (ancient) Nikkor 200mm F/4 lens (mine is probably 40 years old) produces a great image. It feels cooler and crisper than the Nikon 80-200 I use for longer lens interviews, has got to cost next to nothing at this point, has a built in (sliding) lens shade, and clients love the look. Not the world's fastest lens at f/4, but you'll probably be outside with it. Plus you are already getting a Nikon adapter, so there you are!
 
JordanWright said:
Have a look at the Sigma MC11, Its probably the best choice the use with the Sigma. The Rokinon 135 f2 is just over 200mm with the crop on the fs5, its also fairly cheap. Hope this helps!
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No, a 135mm lens is still a 135mm lens regardless of the camera you put it in. A lenses focal length does not change just because it's on a different sized sensor. The lenses field of view is what changes.
 
OnSet said:
Some may laugh, but the old (ancient) Nikkor 200mm F/4 lens (mine is probably 40 years old) produces a great image. It feels cooler and crisper than the Nikon 80-200 I use for longer lens interviews, has got to cost next to nothing at this point, has a built in (sliding) lens shade, and clients love the look. Not the world's fastest lens at f/4, but you'll probably be outside with it. Plus you are already getting a Nikon adapter, so there you are!
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The macro? Lovely lens. got that and a 180 too.

But wrong way focus may mess up our OP.

Id certainly suggest a 180mm old school lens.. ideally with a support

Also 50-300 f4 nikkor or canon FD is a bit awesome.

Or 300 2.8 or the one I kind of want.. 200/2
 
Just remembered I had a Tokina 300 2.8 manual once.. it was really nice and focused in the cine direction. About £600 or less?
 
moldcad said:
Sweet Jesus :(

Piotr
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I take it that you disapprove of my correction of the poster that said that a 135mm lens became a 200mm lens on the fs5. There are many people on here that understand what he was trying to say, but there are many people that do not. If you think I was being pedantic or I'm just arguing semantics, I'm trying to help. If you just sit back and let incorrect information go uncorrected when you know better, then you are a part of the problem, too.
 
Every time someone finally gives out doe real information that actually is true and useful for the better understanding of this profession every body leaps forward and accuses him of being pedantic.

So for the record:
1. A 135mm lens stays a 135mm lens weather it's on a s35 FF 35 super 16 on a speedbooster off a speedbooster because the perspective that it creates does not change just the crop of the image on the sensor.

2. A speedbooster does not "turn" a f2.8 into a f2 it's allways still f2.8
It also doesn't effect the depth of field it only allows or forces you to phisically come closer to your subject and that changes the depth of field.

And it doesn't matter how many bloggers wrote otherwise.
 
icarusfilm said:
Every time someone finally gives out doe real information that actually is true and useful for the better understanding of this profession every body leaps forward and accuses him of being pedantic.

So for the record:
1. A 135mm lens stays a 135mm lens weather it's on a s35 FF 35 super 16 on a speedbooster off a speedbooster because the perspective that it creates does not change just the crop of the image on the sensor.

2. A speedbooster does not "turn" a f2.8 into a f2 it's allways still f2.8
It also doesn't effect the depth of field it only allows or forces you to phisically come closer to your subject and that changes the depth of field.

And it doesn't matter how many bloggers wrote otherwise.
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Actually the speedbooster does turn a 2.8 lens into a f2lens. The speedbooster addition forms all new optical system that has different properties than the lens without it. Therefore lens with a speedbooster is threated like another lens alltogether.
That's why the appeal of speedboster- one speedbooster will effectively double your lens inventory...
Which has nothing to do with the crop factor--- if one does not know what a 135 lens looks like on S35 (APSC) size sensor maybe they should look for another career. The crop factor was created 20 years ago to help photogs transition from FF film cameras to APSC size digital sensors. If one has not transitioned in 20 years they probably never will....
 
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optitek said:
Actually the speedbooster does turn a 2.8 lens into a f2lens. The speedbooster addition forms all new optical system that has different properties than the lens without it. Therefore lens with a speedbooster is threated like another lens alltogether.
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No. It's a 135mm on a focal reducer. The lens hasn't changed.
 
Ugh - get a Nikon 105mm Defocus Lens - talk about bokeh for your video cam :) while at it - get the Nikon 135mm Defocus lens also - the two are a beast.
 
Liam Hall said:
No. It's a 135mm on a focal reducer. The lens hasn't changed.
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12mm t2.1 Zeiss is a 16mm with permanent aspheron wide angle converter attached to the front of it. Does that mean that it is not a 12mm but 16 with aspheron?
18mm Canon K35 is a 24 mm lens with aspheron front wide angle adapter. Does that mean it is not 18mm? Optical designers have done this for ever, just now they make it more economical and allow to use one wide angle adapter on many lenses.
The image generated by the new optical system comprised of a lens and speed booster does not resemble the image of the original lens:
It is brighter, angle of view changed, circle of coverage changed, field curvature, aberrations, distortion are all different. For any optical designer or engineer that warrants new lens. I don' see why it would not....
 
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