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Canon FD set - very very good all round lenses and cheap Yashica ML set superb as good as the Zeiss C/Y just alot cheaper Contax Zeiss set - modern lens look great colours and blacks - bloody sharp Nikon AIS set - Killer!! Russian set - Helios Tair Volna etc etc - character tastic and a curve ball really good cheap set is Miranda .....yes Miranda made by Cosina - really really cheap about £15 each and very very good !! edit one more I forgot is Fujinon C - mount lens set - made in Japan bloody good glass - very fast and cheap - need modding to make work on Micro 4/3 but almost Distagon good.....but faster so superb in low light f1.425mm 35mm 50mm 75mm all very small and light but with Fujinons stunning glass in them .Ill remind you that Fujinon make cinema lenses - Alura etc so are very very good....195

​You make a lot of good points but if you're concerned about the environment as a whole, you also have to consider the amount of carbon produced to keep all the - always on or charging - servers, devices and infrastructure running 247, since that's the macro environment that has made digital viable and also how it will be consumed. As more people come online with broadband, our media consumption has gone through the roof, which takes more servers and more electricity to deliver. I know there's no going backwards, but I just want to emphasize that digital is not clean, you just don't see the pollution when you create it.

Sigma is really doing an awesome job with the ART series line-up. Gotta love the optical quality and the fair price. I think the 18-35mm f/1.8 is some of the greatest value lenses out there for the buck. I'd love to go and pair it up with a lens turbo, get the E-M5II and give its IBIS a go... Keep doing what you're doing Sigma. I'm sure this 24mm f/1.4 is a winner. Oh, and can I just for a second also praise the actual look of the ART lenses themselves? They just look gorgeous.

The design is more complex than either the Canon or Nikon, I expect it to be outstanding. I hope they'll make a newer/better version of the 20mm f/1.8 at some point. Or an 18mm f/2...

​ I have the rollei zeisses - from 25mm to 135mm. the non hft versions are indeed some of the best 'character' lenses available. zeiss sharp, yet with less efficient coatings. the 25mm is a wonderful lens

I shot on film for a few years when I started out. I've shot on a variety of video formats for quite a few years. I'd definitely choose to shoot celluloid if I could on my next film. I worked differently on film. It made me think differently about how to approach what I'm doing. I think shooting on digital has taught me heaps of bad habits, to be sloppy, and not value the moments I shoot. And that quote from Andrew Wondlan regarding Kodak Vision 2 could be equally applied the progress of HD/4K and the pursuit of more pixels and dynamic range. I don't give a ****. GH4 looks like garbage no matter how many pixels it has, and I have never felt my pulse quicken when I look at it. I remember the first time I saw 4K projected, at a test screening of King Kong in Auckland. it made me feel sick. I feared for the future because I doubted that a beautiful film would ever be made on 4K. Nothing has changed my mind. So yeah, cheer for the democracy of digital. But I'll shed a tear for the beautiful films that made me want to pick up camera in the first place.

I also tried to shoot ETTR with my LX100. I also had lower noise, and good colors, but the grading process is far longer, because i got different exposure on almost every scene. I dont think there is enough benefit to shoot ETTR with compressed codec, it's easy to clip highlights, and much more work for just a littlebit better results.

I've started shooting celluloid with Canon Scoopic and Beaulieu (16mm and S8) for fun and I like the effect on screen. Kodak short ends are quite cheap and I've tested 13 years old GPX with great results. I like film especially with PMT scanners - superb match, see my drumscan samples various films light same scenes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/66109016@N04/ I wish I could use photography films in cine cameras. When I watch old S8 films brought by people for telecine I always smile. I like digital too for different tasks.

John, this all looks very interesting & I assume you don't need to modify your original anamorphics, which would be a complete deal breaker for me. The options for the Kowa for B&H & the Iscomorphot 8/x2 (Animex) really could knock the Iscorama out of pole position. Good Luck & hope to see some examples soon!

Ah, I remember the days when this thread was about, you know... the Canon 1D C's price drop. I miss those days.

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Helios 44 on near full frame (1.2 zoom) on the a7s is combatantly shallow. Even stopping down to f22 yields a super shallow DOF. 37mm on APS-C seems better for deep focus stuff. Here's the Helios wide open.

Let's remember all the wonderful things about celluloid: 1. The lovely "bob and weave" in the image, as each frame never lands exactly in the same place as the previous one as it goes through the camera or projector gate. 2. All the sparkling dust and dirt in the image which gives it that nice "real world" feel. 3. The fine lines of scratches that appear if you dare to run your film through a projector more than once. 4. The fun of having no idea how your shots came out until a day or two later when your film comes back from the lab. 5. The marvelous megatons of toxic waste generated by photochemical processing. 6. The joy of your footage turning yellow or pink if you store it in a hot place. The fun of having to store film stock in refrigerators to stop it from going bad. 7. The ecstasy of spending about what a Canon 5D costs to buy thirty minutes of film stock and get it processed (workprint or video transfer not included).

This was never going to be suitable for video, everyone new that from the start. 50mp is way too much. Canon did everyone a favour by not even suggesting it would be good for video.

​Yeah, the counter weight is nice. I have that one on the C300 rig back at work since I dont need it on mine cause I have the Shape shoulderpad/counterweight combo.