FF35 Cine Glass: Get Ready

[Sanjin Jukic]

PL Mount 35mm Motion picture SLR Camera

Olympus Pen F camera with PL mount

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[Stephen Williams]

Hi,

Thats a half frame film camera, I thought film was dead since DSLR's came along.

Stephen

PL Mount 35mm Motion picture SLR Camera

Olympus Pen F camera with PL mount

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[Poi Boy]

Hi,

Thats a half frame film camera, I thought film was dead since DSLR's came along.

Stephen

You are correct Stephen, it is dead.
Aloha
-A

 

[Tom Lowe]

Pawel, I eagerly await the outcome of the surgery. I am pacing in the waiting room.

 

[mikeburton]

How would Hasselblad Lenses fair on the FF35? I know they are usually quite slow T4 and up range but if you were say willing to live with the slow lens do you think there would be an advantage to this glass over say a Nikon or Canon still lenses? ie longer throw, etc.

I would assume that Hasselblad Lenses are meant to resolve with High 25MP sensors and up correct? If true, can they be converted and or is there an adapter to Nikon or Canon Mount that would make these lenses a viable solution for Cine use on the FF35 Monstro Epic when released? Or am I just spinning my own wheels here?

 

[Alex Dobbie]

Novoflex do various adaptors, Hasselblad lenses are pretty stiff though so they might move around in the adaptors when used with a follow focus. Personally I think the the Leica S lenses with an electronic follow focus might be an option.

 

[Häakon]

I think the market will respond -- if more and more people are shooting movies in FF35, someone will start making cine lenses for that market. In the meanwhile, expect a lot of people adapting still lenses for that work just as is done for large-format movie work.

If FF35 moviemaking doesn't catch on, then there will be little incentive for lens makers to cater to that specific market.

There's quite an obvious problem here, however; with no good quality and supply of lenses, how is FF35 moviemaking going to catch on? It's a total chicken and the egg scenario... and frankly I think it's up to the lens manufacturers to make it work. Whether or not they feel it's good business, however, remains to be seen.

It reminds me of this whole Blu-ray thing that's going on... Apple doesn't include it because they want to wait to see if it goes anywhere, and yet it's not going to pick up and become more mainstream unless it becomes more ubiquitous and accessible. If every new Mac came with a Blu-ray player installed, for example, clearly more people would be checking it out.

I do think that FF35 is the next logical step, and I do think it will become the mainstream method of shooting motion picture as digital technology continues to erode the film-based market. The reason is as simple as David pointed out earlier - if it affords the filmmaker a higher level of quality, it will be desired by those who make films. Haven't we been through this "digital can't match the quality of film" argument long enough? Just like the Blu-ray example, however, how long it takes before FF35 catches on is entirely dependent upon how ubiquitous and accessible it is. With no (proper) lenses around to make it work, very few are going to bother with it. I just hope there is a lens manufacturer out there with the sensibility of RED (or perhaps RED themselves, if their own glass shows promise) to get it going sooner than later.

 

[Jeff Kieffer]

OK, Guys. I decided the other way around :usd:

A brand spanking new Canon 50D and a PL mount have been acquired and are on their way to an experienced "surgeon" to create the first DSMC operation :w00t:

The surgeon will carefully remove the disfunctional EF organ from the patient and make a PL implant in its place.

Can't wait to see some night time lapse at 14mm wide, f/1.2, 4.8k and almost noisless ISO 3200.

Hi,

Are there any news if the patient is alive and working? I'ld be interested to see pictures of the mount itself, and how it is fixed!

Thanks

Jeff