Upgrading my lens set, looking at this in the long run.

[Samuel H]

And regarding the BMC, my issue with it is that, while all my lenses will work with it (well, except the couple of wide angles I just bought for my new NEX, but those were cheap and I wasn't worrying about future-proof with them), in terms of FoV they will all end up being long lenses. My 35mm on the BMC is like a 80mm on the 5D. I would have to buy a 21mm lens to be my "normal" lens, and a 11-16 to be my moderate-wide-angle. And all these lenses will end up working in shots they were not designed for: any idea how good the bokeh is on any 21mm EF lens out there? Probably not great, it's not something the manufacturer of a 21mm EF lens worries about a lot... And how easy is it to pull focus on the Tokina 11-16? It may or may not be a problem, nobody has had to do that yet, so we don't know. The best example may end up being the Samyang 35mm f/1.4: it's an amazingly sharp lens, but bokeh is not stellar; it's a perfect companion for a FF or APS-C camera, but as a portrait lens on a BMC... it may not shine as brightly as many users expect it to.

 

[David G. Smith]

Ahh, I see where you are coming from.

Well, the crop factor on the BMC is an issue. Full frame 35mm still is not my frame of reference but the BMC slightly larger than Super 16mm sensor is going to be an issue for a lot of folks. There are a lot of Super 16mm primes setting around in rental houses out there that would be great for this camera, but I for one am not one who can take advantage of that right now. I think that folks thinking that this camera is the panacea of cameras for low budget filmmaking are not thinking of the whole picture. That is a discussion for another thread... and, it looks like another forum.

 

[Samuel H]

I mentioned it because before the BMC came out I thought I had a pretty future-proof lens set; then a revolutionary camera came out, and I found out that I'd have to get a lot of new lenses if I wanted to make good use of said new camera. The future is a *****. It's awesome, but it's a *****, so there's no such thing as "100% future-proof".