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Thanks Panny. The 35mm is a great lens and it's decently priced. Of course, I think Canon recently discontinued it, so the used ones seemed to have went up in price a bit, but you can sometimes find a refurbished one on the Canon site for a reasonable price and a warranty. Canon USM lenses are a mixture of mechanical and electrical, so the focus ring will keep spinning around externally, but if you pay attention to your focus, you can feel the hard stop internally. So... it kinda has hard stops. My other actor is still around... I think he was holding a reflector in one of those shots and he's in the Grim Reaper costume in the other. If you're dying to see some shots of him... Here he is in a test I was doing with the older Sigma 50mm 1.4... such a great lens... with one of the worse focus rings I've ever used...

No one forced you to respond to my initial post about dynamic range, and no one forced you to be rude because others think differently about it than you do. Everyone has different philosophies when it comes to filmmaking and video. This forum would be much better, and much more informative, if we moved beyond just talking about specs and also shared our philosophies, knowledge and experiences. Those are my favorite posts. Give me the threads where people actually share their experiences and thoughts about a camera they're using instead of yet another discussion about dynamic range, and why a camera is no good because it doesn't have 16 stops when camera X does for less money.

An OLPF isn't essential - I don't have one in my BMMCC. You can always get a diffusion filter if you want a softer look, those have a similar effect as well as softening the image.

Thank you, PannySVHS. It's a shame the S5 doesn't have the S1's EVF. I'm guessing that using the S1 on a gimbal is no fun at all. Have you tried out ProRes raw to Ninja V recording with the S1? All the internal vs raw comparisons I have seen have been compressed to Youtube so I can't judge the issue properly. I adore raw, but external recorders less so. What are everyone's thoughts on the S1 vs the Sigma FP? Forgetting all the practicality differences, how does the picture compare between the cameras? How's the internal 6k 4:2:0 10-bit of the S1 relative to the 4k cDNG of the FP? And then, how is the 6k ProRes raw from the S1 relative to the 4k cDNG from the FP? Thanks.