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Canon Cine Primes? Anybody seen or touched them?

Carlos Prio

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Hello Guys!

Canon Cine Primes? Anybody seen or touched them? Better still, mounted on an Epic and shot something ???

Cheers,
Prio
 
I had a chance to shoot with the 24mm (the only one out) last weekend. We pulled together a very quick little short to shoot on the Epic. I don't have any frame grabs to post right now, but I can tell you I was very, very impressed by this lens. The movements of focus and iris rings felt very nice. What I found most interesting is that the lenses are "chipped," so the Epic will not only read the correct f-stop/t-stop, but it will also give you focus distance readings on screen when using the RED Canon mount.

I'll try to post some frame grabs when I can.
 
Arrgghhhh!!!! I just realized that!!!! Thats a no go for me!!! I need PL to match everything else!!!
 
Nice surprise with the chipping, didn't expect that. For me EF-mount is just right, it gives me the freedom to swap between cine-primes like the Canons or CP.2s and still-glass. Speaking of which, a comparison between the Canon Cine and the Canon L-prime would be nice. ;) I know the mechanics are far better on the Cines, but i'm curious about the difference in optical performance.
 
I wish I had the 24mm L Prime to compare when I had the 24mm Cine lens. What I can tell you (purely anecdotal, of course), is that the images felt slightly less contrasty, and had little if any chromatic aberration that i could see. We shot mostly around f3.5, so we weren't wide open, but I felt very good about what the lens gave us.
 
Sounds promising. :) Can't wait to see samples. I don't expect the cine-version to be far better than the L, because the L is already great. So even if they "only" match up, this would be great, because we could build a kit that offers both, great mechanics for accurate manual focus and AF on the L's.

I hope some in-depth reviews come up later, comparisons between this, the L, the CP.2, Cine-Xenar MK3 and of course the RPP would be something. Hehe.
 
Is it true that its essentially just a rehoused, fully manual 24mm f1.4 L with better coatings?
 
Carlos Prio said:
Arrgghhhh!!!! I just realized that!!!! Thats a no go for me!!! I need PL to match everything else!!!
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Three new Compact Prime CP.2 Super Speed lenses with a T-stop of 1.5 might be what your looking for. They come in PL mount and Expected Availability is listed as today from B&H Photo but I don't think that'll happen.

Personally I'd rather go Canon if even though there only ef, the lenses their based on (I've heard) are better than the lenses the zeiss super speeds are based off, but i'm not speaking from personal experience.
 
I would like to see reviews of both sets of lenses. I dont know if the superspeeds are just rehoused zf's. I think with the superspeeds they aim to correct some of the flaws of the shorter focal lenghts especially.

The canons are promising too. The only thing we didnt like in the l series lenses were mostly mechanics. The mechanics in these should be fine so promising indeed.
 
john jeffreys said:
Is it true that its essentially just a rehoused, fully manual 24mm f1.4 L with better coatings?
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Thats what i think. The current absence of a 35mm speaks for it (the old 35mm L will soon be replaced by a new version, i guess a CN-E 35mm will follow) as does the coverage of FF, EF-mount (no PL-version so far) and the chipping. But on the other hand, i have learned that Canon had good cinema-glass, the K-35s, a long time ago. So the CN-E's could be based on the Ls, the K-35s or maybe they're something completely new... Guess, we have to wait a bit more to know. ;)
 
While the L still glass is superb the design was not designed for cinema applications... Remember, breathing or lack thereof is not a consideration when designing a still lens. However, I would imagine that they go back into there archives to look up the recipes from the old K35 cookbooks!! Pepper that with all the broadcast glass experience and you have the potential for some incredible glass!BUT I NEED IT IN PL!!!
 
Hmmm, B&H says "Based on Canon's EF 85/1.2L II and optimized for cine-use" and so on...
 
I'm picking up the 24mm cn-e this afternoon and the 24mm L series on sat. I'll have some R3d comparisons from the scarlet. No scientific testing though just field tests.
 
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