F5: Zoom Lenses for Sony F5

The throw on these lenses is shorter than manual stills primes, but waaaay longer than AF zooms which might be 10 degrees

I looked on the 28-85.. 90 degrees infinity to the 3ft witness mark

As for long throw from Rokinon - well for a long throw you need a finer thread which is doubtless more expensive

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I don't know about the newest AF zooms but as I mentioned , that's no different from my 80-200 f2.8 ED : 80 degrees to 6'.
I just got a sigma 50-150 f2.8 OS to test - that's 90 degrees from 3'
Better than my 28-70 but by 2 x's, not 4 or 5.
 
Lenilenapi said:
I don't know about the newest AF zooms but as I mentioned , that's no different from my 80-200 f2.8 ED : 80 degrees to 6'.
I just got a sigma 50-150 f2.8 OS to test - that's 90 degrees from 3'
Better than my 28-70 but by 2 x's, not 4 or 5.
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The telephotos you mention are not really general purpose zooms - its lenses like the 17-50 tokina that have the short throw.
(yes that is the three foot mark you can see!)

tokina_16-50.jpg
 
I bought my F3 with the expectation that I would be able to use this incredibly light camera as both a doc camera and to shoot mid-range commercials with. This turned out not to be the case. One major shortcoming of nearly all the large sensor cameras is the difficulty with viewfinders - even the good ones, like the Alphatron, have downsides - it's large and requires much button pushing to go between the very necessary focus assist and a clean frame. What's this got to do with lenses? The focus issue is huge, as there is inherently less depth of field than with 2/3" cameras, and when something is soft, it looks horrible. Many lenses do not pop into focus very well - my 18 - 252 is pretty sharp, but hard to focus. The 11-16 Tokina is a little easier, despite being a wider lens. The still zooms listed above can be sharp, but it does take time and effort to work with lenses that are rarely parfocal even if advertised that way (the 18 -70 Tokina), and have with the very short focus throw and small rings. It's not easy, and makes doc style shooting a real challenge, not to mention the mass of cables, wireless receivers and external recorders. I am moving back to primes as this may be less of a compromise than the zoom choices offer. The 35 yr.old f 2.0 Leica lens I just bought has a 270º focus rotation and the image looks fabulous. More walking and less zooming. As an aside, even if I could afford the Cabrio, it still weighs over 5.5 lbs and isn't really wide enough for run and gun shooting and is a t2.9, so not blazing fast either. I note that shows like 60 Minutes (which bought 6 F3's) are now shooting differently - no zooms in the interviews and often none in coverage, presumably because they are using more primes. Anyway, a long series of compromises. Good luck with finding a good solution - the perfect one doesn't exist.
 
Throw on the Nikon 17-55 is about 25-30 degrees from 3' to infinity. Short, but nowhere near as bad as the Tokina picture above. It has room at least for markings at 10, 5 and 3.5 ft.
 
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