FS7: What is your best lens with your FS7

Indeed - and that is the point - there is no 'best' lens.

You like a 35 prime.. I can see that, I like my little zoom, I could also dig a 18-35 1.8 (been thinking about trying that, esp the cine version!) and one shot a year I use my 18-250 Sony wankokitschlop lens for a shot where the talent is walking towards me centre of frame.

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Best lens is difficult really but I have found the Canon 24-105 to work great for reality kind of stuff like this Danish video I shot together with another photographer. We used two FS7 and only had a Canon 24-105 on each camera. It's easy to get a fairly wide shot and go close.

 
That looks nice.

It is really interesting and personal. I think it looks nice, but I can see the IS jumping on the little pans and some focus fighting, also the slight sea-sick sway of IS; I think it would look even nicer, more human, with a lens that was more connected to the operator. Its almost like a motion cadence subliminal thing.

So it really is about finding the thing that pleases oneself, or ones director and everyone in the team.

Ive had the 24-105 and sold it.

S
 
But I also have to point out - with the Canon IS - on MB adapter - it's merely flipping a switch on/off on the physical lens, rather than having to go thru menu system to turn it on or off - like it would be for Sony lens.
I probably like the "range" of the 24-105 more than I like the lens.... but I do find it works quite often in many situations.
 
morgan_moore said:
but I can see the IS jumping on the little pans and some focus fighting, also the slight sea-sick sway of IS;
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Maybe I'm blind but I have no idea what your talking about Sam. Looks great and thankfully steady for handheld shots that are reasonably long. Was the IS on?
 
We had IS on and to a degree I can agree with Morgan that IS on Canon lenses can look a bit odd sometimes when used for video.

In this documentary styled video I shot (a personal project) I choose not to use IS on the 24-105. There's always the choice to use IS or not.

 
morgan_moore said:
Indeed - and that is the point - there is no 'best' lens.

You like a 35 prime.. I can see that, I like my little zoom, I could also dig a 18-35 1.8 (been thinking about trying that, esp the cine version!) and one shot a year I use my 18-250 Sony wankokitschlop lens for a shot where the talent is walking towards me centre of frame.

S
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Completely agree Morgan. Though, best of all, I like a full set of primes, and someone to carry them:-)
 
Does anyone have experience using the Carl Zeiss Compact Primes on the FS7? Has anyone shot tests? My university will be getting three of the FS7 soon and they already have a full set of CPs.
 
Megawalter said:
Does anyone have experience using the Carl Zeiss Compact Primes on the FS7? Has anyone shot tests? My university will be getting three of the FS7 soon and they already have a full set of CPs.
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CPs will work great on FS7. You'll need a strong adapter though.
 
I'm looking to buy a couple of Rokinon cine primes for interviews (50 and 85mm). Which mount should I choose - Sony E, or Canon EF?

If EF, which adapter(s)?

Thanks,

S.
 
EF will give you the option of using speed booster and getting 2 different focal lengths for each lens, lower DOF and an extra stop of light. I would get both the metabones speed booster and the normal Mark IV .
 
Screenstoryteller said:
I'm looking to buy a couple of Rokinon cine primes for interviews (50 and 85mm). Which mount should I choose - Sony E, or Canon EF?

If EF, which adapter(s)?

Thanks,

S.
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I didn't get a chance to test them out in person but my friend got it and said that 12mm on e-mount is super sharp and gives extremely nice images. It's due to the fact that lens is very close to the sensor and optimised for it. To know if it makes any difference we should test two same lenses with different mounts. If so, that will be a matter of losing a little bit of sharpness vs great flexibility.

I want to get some rokinons as well I am in the same doubt in which mount to invest.
 
Has anyone had the chance to try out a Nikon 600mm f/4? Or even better, has anyone compared it to the Nikon 600mm f/5.6?
 
I have a 600/4

It is extremely difficult to use..

1) huge rig
2) really hard to find your subject

For example surfing you lose your position in a sea of... sea - way easier to aquire your target with a wider FOV and then zoom in on the action.

Due to a bizarre twist of insurance write off buy backs I have a 400 2.8 too, that and a 1.4 converter is a far more practical investment.

A 400 2.8 gives you a 300/2 a 400 2.8 or a 600 f4 with a booster and a 1.4converter.

A 2/3 cam with a nikkor 80-200 would be the way though. Seriously if you need to cover a distant event it is usally more practical to take a camera like the EX1 rather than lug a 600/4

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Sam, thanks for the advice but I already know that a 600mmm is in my future, I'm just shopping for the right one. A 2/3 cam or EX1 won't work because they are not 4K and can't shoot RAW or HFR. The 400 f/2.8 would be too short. I already shoot with my RED 300mm f/2.8 in center crop all the time and that is the equivalent of a 600mm and I don't have any trouble finding the subject even when shooting fast-moving wildlife. I've outgrown the 300 and need a 600. Using center crop means I can only do 2K, and I need 4K RAW, and so that means investing in a real 600mm lens. I'd prefer f/4 but would consider the f/5.6 model if anyone has good things to say about it.

How is the focusing on your 600/4? The ***** of using a Nikon lens though is that I would also have to use a follow-focus because I could never get used to the direction the Nikon focuses. 35 years of having all my lenses focusing the "right way" can't be erased from my muscle memory, but I can probably do it with a FF. So the rig gets even bigger and heavier.
 
The focussing on my example (the 600) is pretty gack - to the point were it was written off as unrapairable by Nikon (which started to some extent my deep suspicion of expensive glass with shi_tty plastic clutches for MF/AF)

My 400 2.8 has a reasonable focus feel, the lens is good condition, purchased with the insurance claim from the 'dead' 600 (which I then bought back super cheap!) but is not really totally awesome.

These electronic lenses just seem to start to hang after 3 or 4 years of pro use (aka sport every weekend, all weathers*), little inconsistencies in the focus friction. I bought all this glass when I did some surf (stills) work.

Nikkor 600/4 manual seem to be about $2k used and are completely wonderful for focus feel if you get a good copy, my first 'proper' lens, age 21, was a 300 2.8 nikkor manual that was super lovely.

There were also canons at that time manual focus, FD, I remember the market crashing as the canon stills boys switched to the new EF mount. A chum used to do the surfing with a manual 800-5.6 canon he got for a song.

This is what you want.. http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/fdlenses/6800mm.htm

*and when you buy used that will have been the use!
 
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