The vintage realm is such an amazing rabbit hole for lenses. There are lots of famous ones like the canon FD and the Zeiss Contax that also get lots of attention from the industry, but they definitely are getting more scarce. You can even find pretty popular looks from more expensive cine lenses in the form of their projector lenses. Obviously that means there is a requirement to find them with a focus helicoid and find a way to adapt them to your mount, but I have found some really interesting lenses that are put together by people over in Poland and Ukraine that have the mount added and ready to shoot. Its a pretty amazing time to be with vintage glass! I just got a Petzval style Lucor projector lens adapted to Sony mount and I'm pretty excited to get it.
Great video! Another great lens in the 70-200 f2.8 range is the Nikon 80-200 f2.8. It is 10mm longer on the wide end, but I find it’s a great lens for a lot of work!
I think you’re the first person I’ve seen also using f mount lenses for video! Lol, I always say f mount is the best mount for high quality affordable lenses. Especially since F mount lenses are the most adaptable lenses on the market
i think they’re great but not my personal favorite. i use the zooms for any sports, wedding, and doc work and tend to use cinema lenses for anything else. they look great tho!
this not "cinematic", even with cinematic lens you get such quality, cinematic style ONLY with camera (expensive one), light(expensive one), script(expensive person), storytelling and so on...
i think the main things that make something cinematic is how you handle the post processing and editing, but before that it would definitely make a difference if you use a lens that can give the cinematic stylistic feel from the start the camera definitely isn't what makes something cinematic though it definitely helps to have a cinema camera that can allow full flexibility for color grading and such lighting can easily be DIY'd for inexpensive prices with affordable methods, and storytelling, scripting, editing + post processing are all invaluable skills that anyone can learn and put to use professionally without spending a dime on it (the internet is an infinite resource that can be mostly to entirely free)
The vintage realm is such an amazing rabbit hole for lenses. There are lots of famous ones like the canon FD and the Zeiss Contax that also get lots of attention from the industry, but they definitely are getting more scarce.
You can even find pretty popular looks from more expensive cine lenses in the form of their projector lenses. Obviously that means there is a requirement to find them with a focus helicoid and find a way to adapt them to your mount, but I have found some really interesting lenses that are put together by people over in Poland and Ukraine that have the mount added and ready to shoot. Its a pretty amazing time to be with vintage glass! I just got a Petzval style Lucor projector lens adapted to Sony mount and I'm pretty excited to get it.
i’ve only messed with projector lenses a bit but they’re super cool!
Great video! Another great lens in the 70-200 f2.8 range is the Nikon 80-200 f2.8. It is 10mm longer on the wide end, but I find it’s a great lens for a lot of work!
i’ve seen other people use that one but haven’t myself!
I think you’re the first person I’ve seen also using f mount lenses for video! Lol, I always say f mount is the best mount for high quality affordable lenses. Especially since F mount lenses are the most adaptable lenses on the market
nikon glass is low key better while being cheaper!
I’m really curious to hear your take on the sigma lenses. I have the 40 mm and 85 mm art lenses.
i think they’re great but not my personal favorite. i use the zooms for any sports, wedding, and doc work and tend to use cinema lenses for anything else. they look great tho!
I have lumix s5iix , and I found a set of 4 Nikon lenses on Facebook marketplace. Does the auto focus work when you adopt them?
unfortunately the AF won't work but manual focus is always an option!
Any advice for ultra wide lens for sony a7iii?
honestly any manually focused wide angle from any manufacturer. after is pretty pointless and expensive for ultra wide angle lenses
Canon fd 28mm 2.8 is great mounted to a sony, highly rec (jk not ultra wide)
this not "cinematic", even with cinematic lens you get such quality, cinematic style ONLY with camera (expensive one), light(expensive one), script(expensive person), storytelling and so on...
as someone who shoots movies, and commercials that’s not really how it works lol
i think the main things that make something cinematic is how you handle the post processing and editing, but before that it would definitely make a difference if you use a lens that can give the cinematic stylistic feel from the start
the camera definitely isn't what makes something cinematic though it definitely helps to have a cinema camera that can allow full flexibility for color grading and such
lighting can easily be DIY'd for inexpensive prices with affordable methods, and storytelling, scripting, editing + post processing are all invaluable skills that anyone can learn and put to use professionally without spending a dime on it (the internet is an infinite resource that can be mostly to entirely free)