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Tag: cine lens

31 January 2015

Review of Rokinon Cine Primes

Written by Paul Moon

Adam Wilt has written this uncommonly extensive and articulate review of the Rokinon (Bower/Samyang) line of cinema prime lenses, comparing with Veydra and other pricier competitors. Check out his new post at dvinfo.net.

I have the 16mm, 24mm, 35mm and 85mm Rokinon Cine lenses, and look forward to getting the new 135mm one when it’s scheduled to drop in February.  They offer good value with high quality after stopping down just a bit, and as I mention in my Blackmagic rigging video, it’s advisable (as Adam notes in his review) to get the Canon EF version for adaptability across (almost) all lens mounts. That also buys you the flexibility to add things between the sensor and the lens, like a variable ND filter or, better yet, a focal reducer to increase your effective field of view and gather more light.

January 31, 2015 Reblog bower, cine lens, cine prime, cinema lens, cinema prime, rokinon, samyang 4 Comments
19 April 2014

Rigging the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: HolyManta, Rapid ND, Contineo Cage, Zacuto Z-Finder, Tascam DR-60D & Rokinon Lenses

Written by Paul Moon

Last year, when the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera arrived, I made a video to break it in, and laid down a commentary to share some insights. Not the newest thing now, it’s still the only option for capturing 10-bit 4:2:2 log video without a big rig, and costing under a grand. But it’s always needed a bit of rigging, and while filmmakers keep using it to make amazing films – examples here – there’s still a lot to talk about, in terms of rigging it right. Following up the commentary I made last year that went sort of viral, here’s a similar chat: because sometimes showing stuff, and talking over it, works better than writing an article. For a streaming clip, it does run long, but it covers lots of ground – and I’m looking forward to your comments below.

The first and main theme is that it’s wise to choose Canon EF-mount manual cine lenses, so that you can adapt them to the Micro-4/3 mount on the BMPC (and E-mount on Sony cams) with gadgets that take advantage of the conversion, enabling behind-the-lens ND filters and focal reducers.  But it’s also true that typical Canon EF-mount lenses that aren’t fully manual will lack aperture control this way.  Important to clarify!  (There is not currently any Metabones solution specific to this need.)

GEAR LIST (in order of appearance):
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
Panasonic 12-35mm f2.8 zoom lens
Rokinon Cine lenses for EF mount
HolyManta VND
Light Craft Workshop Rapid ND (use my coupon code LC-1308 for 10% off)
View Factor Contineo cage
Tamrac N-45 padded leather quick-release camera strap
Zacuto Z-Finder
Ikan battery adapters (choose desired battery & mounting)
5.5 x 2.1mm female (Ikan) to 2.5 x 0.7mm male (BMPC) adapter
Tascam DR-60D audio pre-amp/recorder
Rode NTG-2 shotgun mic
Polaroid shotgun mic mount
Flolight 1/4″-20 Stacker for mic mount
Tether Tools Jerkstopper thread mount
Roxsen Focal Reducer EF to Micro-4/3

April 19, 2014 Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, FocusPulling Original Video blackmagic, blackmagic pocket, bmpc, bmpcc, cine lens, contineo, dr-60, dr60, focal reducer, holymanta, ikan, nd, nd filter, rigging, rokinon, roxsen, tascam, variable nd, z-finder, zacuto 4 Comments

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