Lens Recommendation

Kenn Christenson

Kenn Christenson

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I'm going to be purchasing one of the HPX500 packages as soon as they are available. Is there any lens in these packages that is clearly better in sharpness than the others?

Thanks
 
I haven't tested this lens nor am I passing judgment on it. I totally respect Canon glass as could be evidenced by my purchase of a Canon 70-200 f2.8L lens for my DSLR just last week.
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I'm just making a general comment that lenses with extenders in use are not as sharp as they are when the extender is not in use.

Is that not true with this lens?
 
Hi Terry,

Now I am intriqued and will have to test more carefully when I get the lens back. The looksee that I did do seemed like it was very good, but will explore at the end of next week when I get the lens back.

Best,

Jan
 
Fuji

Fuji

Hi
How about the Fujinon lenses (XA17X7.6BRM-M58B ), the 2X, any comments on it?

Any noticeable difference in performance compared to the Canon 2x (KJ16x7.7B-IRSD)?

Thanks.

BR.

Gustavo
 
The Fujinon 2X is noticeably sharper than the non-2X. It is a nice lens but it is not as sharp as the Canon, close, but then I was looking at a res chart on a 37" HD monitor, not an LCD or plasma.

Best,

Jan
 
Hi everyone, I was thinking about using 16mm cine lens on hpx500. They are the 2/3 ccd and 16mm film is almost the same size. Does anyone know if that's possible ? Thank you guys in advance.
Hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards.
Paulo Emilio Baremis
www.brokolis.com.br
 
baremis said:
Hi everyone, I was thinking about using 16mm cine lens on hpx500. They are the 2/3 ccd and 16mm film is almost the same size. Does anyone know if that's possible ? Thank you guys in advance.
Hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards.
Paulo Emilio Baremis
www.brokolis.com.br
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Thinking something similar. But was actually wondering if the Red cine lenses with the B4 to pl mount would be useable.
 
Aside from the problems of mounting them, 16mm cine lenses are designed to focus on a flat piece of film and not go through beam splitters - so I doubt you'd get a great image out of a cine lens.
 
What would be the best sd cine lenses or cine "looking" lens to use with the 500? Something that is priced "fairly" like used PL lenses ebay. 50prime or 24-50/80 zoom. I use a HVX currently but want control the DOF and not use a big adapter like my redrock micro.

I'm not worried about sharpness because I rather the look be more film than HD.
 
The DOF is not a function of the lens... it's due to the size of the sensor and the F-stop. So choosing a cine lens over a video lens will make very little difference to DOF on this camera.
 
Sure? A prime lens with more aperture than a zoom lens should produce a more shallow DOF. I just don´t know how strong that effect is with 2/3" primes.
 
I am considering getting one of these, but does anyone know if there is a lense mount adapter that will let me use my slr canon lenses? I know that the camera is a bayonet mount. Who makes or sells an adapter like this?
 
Alex Leith said:
The DOF is not a function of the lens... it's due to the size of the sensor and the F-stop. So choosing a cine lens over a video lens will make very little difference to DOF on this camera.
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DOF is in fact a function of the lens, and is not altered by the size of the sensor. Aperture, focal length, and subject-to-camera distance are three key factors that effect DOF... all of which are properties determined by the lens and its location. The size of the sensor only determines how much of the frame we can see. If you were able to move a given lens from a 35mm camera to a 1/3 CCD camera, the DOF would not change at all. The only thing that would change is that we would be seeing a smaller area of the the frame. That of course is why people use 35mm adapters... to increase the size of the projection area (ground glass) so that we can use longer focal length lenses and not be limited to seeing only a small fraction of the frame (or be forced to shoot from 100ft away).
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But dont forget its realtionship to FOV. so in a way sensor size is Somewhat realted.
 
Just curious: How much more DOF can you get with a 2/3" camera and a prime lens with significantly more f stops than a zoom lens?

I have a clear idea - at least from what I've seen in many occasions - how big the difference between a zoom lens and a prime lens is in the case of 35 mm.

But what kind of results will I get with a 2/3" sensor? I would appreciate a lot some visual examples.
 
I assume something like Zeiss digiprimes would be the best lenses without an adapter? Just not the lease expensive option. I'm worried that one of these zoom's wont have a great overall cinematic look. Can you control the f-stops on the lens itself with these SD zooms?
 
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