What Is The Best Kind Of Lens For Red & Close To Cinema Style?

[nawaf65095]

What Is The Best Kind Of Lens For Red & Close To Cinema Style?
Red 18-50mm Will Give Me The Cinema Focus??
Regards.

 

[Brook Willard]

If you're referring to depth of field, any lens with super 35mm coverage will give you the "cinema style" or "cinema focus" you're looking for.

 

[nawaf65095]

OK THE RED 18-50mm F2.8 CF LENS IS (SUPER 35MM)?
REGARDS.

 

[Brook Willard]

Yes, it is.

You can use any standard PL-mount cinema lenses on the RED ONE - the RED 18-50mm is but one of many. That said, it's a fantastic lens for the price.

Having 50mm as your longest lens will limit you. You will want to invest in some longer primes or a longer zoom [like RED's 50-150mm zoom, when it becomes available].

If PL-mount cinema lenses are outside your budget, you could purchase one of the other lens mounts [to enable shooting with Canon still lenses, Nikon still lenses, etc].

 

[Mark Thorpe]

Hello again nawaf65095,
Maybe you would be better to look through the Lens forum here at REDUser. There you will find all the information on lenses and tests / reviews of a whole array of lenses.

Cheers,
Mark.

 

[Matthew Rogers]

What Is The Best Kind Of Lens For Red & Close To Cinema Style?
Red 18-50mm Will Give Me The Cinema Focus??
Regards.

Go look at a Depth of Field calculator and can start to get an idea about how many ft/meters from the camera will be in focus. Even at 18mm, you can get a shallow DOF if you subject is close to the camera and your background is somewhat far away.

What's I've been struggling with is should I get the 50-150 or a Cooke 25-250...

Matthew