18-50mm Zoom?

[Evin Grant]

The D80 is a better camera all around but the D40x is no slouch. The .4 makes little diffrence, the 10MP of the D40x/D80 should be sufficient to test your own lenses, I already own a D2x and it's specs make it ideal for testing lenses for Red.

 

[jaadgy akanni]

The D80 is a better camera all around but the D40x is no slouch. The .4 makes little diffrence, the 10MP of the D40x/D80 should be sufficient to test your own lenses, I already own a D2x and it's specs make it ideal for testing lenses for Red.

Evin, considering that the D2X uses a 12.4 megapixel CMOS DX sensor (which are specs almost identical to those of RED ONE) while the D40x/D80 use a 10.2 megapixel DX Format CCD image sensor, would the answer to Thinkbug's question "Would this camera cover a similar area as the RED and provide a comparable perspective?" be NO? or would the discrepancies be too many to make them good cameras "to use for pre-production, slates/plates, taking quick shots on set, act as a Director's Finder, etc?"

 

[Stephen Williams]

Evin, considering that the D2X uses a 12.4 megapixel CMOS DX sensor (which are specs almost identical to those of RED ONE) while the D40x/D80 use a 10.2 megapixel DX Format CCD image sensor, would the answer to Thinkbug's question "Would this camera cover a similar area as the RED and provide a comparable perspective?" be NO? or would the discrepancies be too many to make them good cameras "to use for pre-production, slates/plates, taking quick shots on set, act as a Director's Finder, etc?"

Hi,

The horizontal viewing angle from the D80 will be very close to the Red one.

Stephen

 

[istvanttt]

Evin, a question, do you test the RED lenses with a Nikon? Somewhere I asked if it would be possible to attack a PL lens to the Nikon, if there is an adapter around. Somebody answered me that this is not possible. As I found some older LOMO PL mount lenses in Russia I would love to play with them before my RED ONE will arrive. I own a D75s and this would be indeed exciting.
Thanks, Istvan

 

[Evin Grant]

The larger flange focal distance makes a PL to
Nikon mount impossible.

 

[istvanttt]

Yes, somebody already answered me time ago with the same words. Somehow I missunderstood your words in this thread and I thought you test the RED lenses with your NIKON, and this made me hope again
Thanks indeed

 

[Dan Blanchett]

Evin, considering that the D2X uses a 12.4 megapixel CMOS DX sensor (which are specs almost identical to those of RED ONE) while the D40x/D80 use a 10.2 megapixel DX Format CCD image sensor, would the answer to Thinkbug's question "Would this camera cover a similar area as the RED and provide a comparable perspective?" be NO? or would the discrepancies be too many to make them good cameras "to use for pre-production, slates/plates, taking quick shots on set, act as a Director's Finder, etc?"

Thanks for answering this. Almost forgot I posted the original question...