blackmagic pro lenses vs red epic cheap lenses

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

If one could afford either to keep his red epic but use lower end lenses (canon non-L)
Or a blackmagic 4k and afford the flag-ship L canon lenses.. in the final footage which would benefit most?
(Keeping grading in consideration)

Naturally assuming one shoots in 4k on both.. (plus I shoot 8:1) in my red because of redmag costs..

I wouldn't use either combo; I'd sling an FD mount on the Epic, and use FD glass. Dirt cheap, great images.

Mike

 

[Russ Fill]

I have used my Canon 11-22mm EF-s and although it does a pretty good job it tends to have a lot of CA that I don't really care for. I just a few hours ago was looking at some of the shots from it and thinking to my self, I wonder if the Tokina 11-16mm has this much CA...
A lot of the still glass,,,,mostly Canon I have used does have what seems to be more CA than the Cine glass I have..
For most small productions you will be able to get away with using non L glass. The comment about the Rokinon is a good way to go if you don't have a tone of money to spend on glass. Its pretty good and not a lot.

Stephen I have to disagree with you on the breathing.. I for one don't like lenses that breath very much. And it all depends on which way your focusing if it zooms in or out... Which might not be what you want in that particular cine,, And I know that if your doing macro work and roll focus and the lens breaths a bunch it draws attention from what is going on in cine . Still lenses tend to not have the resolution built in to their focus ring as cine lenses do so you tend to over or under focus at times, so Jorge you should consider that when choosing still glass to use on a motion camera..