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igmolinav

macrumors 65816
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Aug 15, 2005
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Hi,

I am relatively new to doing video : ) !!!
I have read that many people talk about cine or video primes.
They may look like this one:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/844732-REG/Canon_6569B001_CN_E_24mm_T1_5_L.html

or like this one:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/687443-REG/Zeiss_1836_178_Compact_Prime_CP_2_25mm_T2_9.html


Their "counterparts", are regular still photography lenses,
like this one:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/590449-USA/Canon_2750B002_EF_24mm_f_1_4L_II.html

or this one:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/839986-REG/Zeiss_1871767_Distagon_T_25mm_f_2_0.html

I would like to do some very short documentaries with a dSLR and with
two or three still photography lenses. In the documentaries I plan
to do, for the most part, I'll interview people. So, the focus does not
really move. I may include buildings and/or landscape, but the focus is
pretty much fixed. (A friend of mine wants to film a dialogue from a script
he wrote. The people in the dialogue stay mostly in the same boring plane
as well ; ) !!!). So, there will always be very little movement back and forth
of the "focus plane"! So, assuming that there is more or less the same
video quality in the video/cine lenses as in the still photography
lenses, there is no need to be interested in those video/cine lenses.
That assumed, since there is very little movement of the subjects, and
therefore no breathing! Would this be correct?

I found this video on the internet, and I couldn't see much of a
difference between using video/cine lenses, and using still photo-
graphy lenses:
http://nofilmschool.com/2012/12/canon-cinema-prime-test-magnanimous-media/

Thank you in advance, kind regards,

igmolinav : ) !!!
 

acearchie

macrumors 68040
Jan 15, 2006
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If your budget allows then go for the Cine primes.

If it's tight then still to L series lenses.

There are other things make cine lenses better than photography lenses apart from the breathing.
 

igmolinav

macrumors 65816
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Aug 15, 2005
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Hi Archie,

Thank you for your message : ) !!!

There are other things make cine lenses better than photography lenses apart from the breathing.

I would know more about those characteristics that make cine lenses better.
If you have a link or would like to comment a bit, I would appreciate it.

Kind regards,

igmolinav : ) !!!
 

acearchie

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Jan 15, 2006
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I wrote a post on reddit which summarised most of the differences but I can seem to find it now.

I did find this link though which gives some good pointers as to the main differences.

I would seriously recommend going for L series lenses and spending the extra money on other aspects to make your film better as I doubt you would see little difference in the lenses as well as have a complicated time getting PL mount to EF mount adapters.
 
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