Has anyone tested a SD lens on the HPX500?

Yep the 2000 is way more crisp, but it also lacks VFRs....


I still have my HVX200 that I would never sell for this reason. The first paying job with the HVX200 in 2006 was for GE (General Electric) with lots of footage Shot in slo mo. They were shocked and impressed with the footage played back on and HD monitor. and coming from a small camera... I still use the 200 and mix footage with the 2000. There are settings to get a film look with the 2000

main menu
paint

manual knee on
knee slope 50
knee point 85.0

gama
filmlike 3

The settings are listed in the manual.

Mule
 
I really wish the hpx500 had more menus for image control...

If I had the extra cash, I would pick an 2000 over the 500. But then after a while, I would want the 3000. But then after more time, I would want the Varicam2...

Did you get that avc-intra board yet!?
 
It is a keeper! I am trying to gear up for an indiefeature (isnt everyone?) and I was planning to rent a cinestyle lens. I found a good deal on a Canon EC wideangle zoom from a friend and I had to sell what I had in order to buy it. Otherwise, I would have kept the j8x6, its a great eng lens!

EDIT! NEW!

Here is a still from my film goodsam shot with the j8x6 SD lens, dont mind the grade or post added grain. Errr. Its also a highly compressed jpeg...
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Canon and Optex got together to make their Canon Branded EC lenses. Now Canon has a new line called HD-EC. The lens I have was replaced with the 8x5.5 HD-EC version. The new HDEC lenses are just too expensive and overkill to put on my hpx500 (more than $30K!)

So in effect, this Canon EC zoom I have doesn't have the "HD" branding, but I have a hunch that it performs much better than HD ENG lenses, my friend used it on the f900 without complaint.
 
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hunter richards said:
...So in effect, this Canon EC zoom I have doesn't have the "HD" branding, but I have a hunch that it performs much better than HD ENG lenses, my friend used it on the f900 without complaint.
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It would be interesting to see some scientific data on the HD vs. SD lenses.
 
The HD cinema lens paper is a great read. I found out that my 9x5.2mm was cannons first made cinematography lens for 2/3" cameras.

Something I thought was interesting from these papers was that canons first generation of HDEC primes were called "too sharp" by dp's. So canons 2nd generation of HDec lenses addressed this by making them look softer, but still have a high MTF. Thats kind of funny to me. I guess a lens can be too sharp.
 
I haven't shot anything with it yet but when I take some pretty pictures I will post them. Here are some pretty pictures of the lens though:

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No more eng lens gears! Forgot to add: This thing is built like a beast. Its BIG and Heavy! That may or may not be a good thing...
 
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1080p stills from the 9x5.2mm cinezoom with the hpx500: (sorry they arent amazingly lit!) There are 6 in total (sorry if you have a small monitor!)

(These stills are untouched strait from the camera with a detial setting of -2. They have just been recompressed into web quality jpeg)

Anneli's Eyes:
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Flowers:
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(This one is a bit underexposed, the sun had set, sorry!)
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Curry Dinner:
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Rocks and my diy doorwaydolly in the background:
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Our new cat!:
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Sorry there wasnt any shots at 5.2mm, I'm working on a wide shot for ya.
 
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Basically for the same price as a new 2/3" cheap HD lens, I got this Cine Lens. It has no noticeable CA, no noticeable lens breathing, calibrated T stops, 270 degrees of focus barrel rotation. Its very solid too, There isnt any plastic I can find! (Its a bit heavy, but thats expected with cinestyle zoom lenses)
 
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I'm working on it! What I am seeing so far is that this lens is sharp as a tack, all the way from the wide-end to the telephoto-end. I don't see any ramping or vignetting either. I really think this lens performs better (optically and mechanically) than any eng HD lens. Yep I said it.
 
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