The Kit Lens is Underrated...

I will say that I've seen a few videos shot on vimeo with this lens where under heavily back light scenarios the subjects looked... glowy? They had a lot of halo-ing, and I'm not sure if it was a sloppy filtering job or the lens itself. Any shooters out there with this lens have that problem? I don't own it, but for the right job I might grab/borrow/rent and I'd like to know what I'm getting myself into.
 
The lens is a total quandry - but a believe part of the FS100 tookit

Today I was shooting fast sequence and the light was changing - I could not change the ap fast enough also coud not find positivty in the focus wheel - so changed to a nikon,

Later we did a little sequence of a remote helicopter - handheld indoors - and the AF and stabilisation was amazing

you have got to know when and how to use it

S
 
This is simple adapter from Amazon! -- >
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You can get it here: http://www.amazon.com/RainbowImagin...JUIW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1311289109&sr=8-3
Ships from and sold by cowboystudio. :)
 
Yup, it's another so called "dumb" adapter, meaning you can't control the F stop with it....

Making it a total pain in the butt to use.
 
jdv said:
Yup, it's another so called "dumb" adapter, meaning you can't control the F stop with it....

Making it a total pain in the butt to use.
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I don't think so :) ... at first - when I shoot with Sony FS-100 I use it on maximum aperture anyway :) - to produce more film-like looks... even my F2.8 lenses is not fast enough for it :) ... second - I use Kipon, with build-in aperture adapter, when I need it, but it works properly only with my Sigma 50mm, F1.4 lens --> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-EOS-L...323?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5196fa2ac3

.... and it's working very good! :)
 
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morgan_moore said:
The lens is a total quandry - but a believe part of the FS100 tookit
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Just wanted to run the following up the flag pole to see who licks it up:

As we know, the lens does not have a 'Focus Assist' mode so you can't 'help it', and it's also infuriating to focus (certainly PULL focus) as it's servo driven.

So, how about a 'touch focus' system - tap the viewfinder's image at a spot you want to focus on, the camera tells the lens to AF on that area. Just like a handy cam - or Epic!

I could forgive the lens a lot for that feature.
 
MattDavis said:
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I could forgive the lens a lot for that feature.
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We could all invent features it does not have - ideally it should be through an open source or app platform

Limits of travel, face rec, smile rec, A-B (like the Ex1) you name it

But none of that exists !

S
 
The vg20 will supposedly have the touch screen focus working with the kit lens. I would think it is a big omission if the fs100 lacks this, firmware update?
 
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