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No, the lens will be manual only, but manual focus lenses are usually much better for video anyway. Of course, if you are only doing basic corporate, interview shoots, I can see how the auto functions would be beneficial. But, there are still a lot of lenses for both the Sony and Panasonic systems, so you wouldn't be limited at all. If you have any goals of extending your work into more creative areas, manual lenses are the way to go, IMO.

If you go the mirrorless route... Sony, Panasonic, et al... your lens options become endless by using cheap adapters.

If you like the a6000, but don't need the viewfinder, take a look at the a5100. It's an amazing little camera and it's dirt cheap. Manufacture refurbished bodies go for less than $300 on eBay.

Thanks, I didn't realize you could stack adapters, does it maintain infinity focus when you stack? I also have a set of nice Pentax K lenses... Maybe I should get the Roxsen PK to NEX and then get M42 to PK. Do you use other brands with it via the ef to m43rds?

Has anyone used the Roxsen brand of speedbooster, specifically the m42 to NEX? I just picked up an a5100 body at a great price and I was thinking of using a focal reducer with it. I saw they make them for m42 lenses, so I am curious to try it with my Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm 2.8 and 35mm 2.4 Flektogon. Or is a speedbooster with an APS-C pointless?

I tested a lot of the cheap steady cams on the market and most worked, but you really had to mess with it. The best one I found was made by Vidpro, but even that one required over an hour of fiddling with to find the perfect balance. From reading various forums, most people aren't putting the time in that is really required, plus you usually need more weight selection than what is offered... Washers are your friend and be ready to spend an hour or two setting it up. When you do get it balanced properly, mark the steady cam and lens used. Once you try it with a different lens, you need to start over. Add a light, or anything... Start over. And then you need to practice the walk. It takes a while to get everything working properly. but once it does, you can get some really smooth footage.

Did you go buy the XC10 today?

How is the H2, or H2N?

I don't even have a problem with the lens, the problem is the price. If this camera was $1500, it would be the camera of the year.

Take a look at the older post about the XC10, Mattias Burling posted a link to some footage a few days and it looks amazing. If I had that kinda money to spend, it would be my next camera.

When I was younger, film school was out of fashion. Kevin Smith and Tarrantino and Rodriguez were just making movies. I had less money then than I do now, so I took up screenwriting. I must have bought every book written on the topic. 20 years later and I can finally afford some equipment. I should have gone to film school... Learn discipline... Networking. After I got the t2i, I had zero money for any good glass and the kit lens is... A piece of kit lens. So I started buying cheap vintage lenses and became kinda addicted to vintage glass. It took me a while to build up my sets and now I probably have too much. I read you said you have FDs and Minoltas... Me too. Awesome effing lenses. I recently picked up the Minolta MC 35mm 1.8... Amazing lens. I will probably end up with the G7, but I am going to wait until the body only is available, save a couple bucks. Unless, the pocket has another Summer sale... Then I am definitely on that. These Cosmicar c-mount lenses are dying to be on another camera other than my Pentax Q7. Which SLR Magic lenses do you have? I saw a video not too long ago of the 11mm Toy Lens on the pocket... I was surprised how nice the footage looks.

Thanks for the offer, sounds like a great deal, but I have a couple more weeks of saving and deciding before I am ready for my upgrade.

It looks great!!!

And there's just something about the marriage of Minolta lenses on a NEX body that just has that 70s look and feel to the iq. Have you seen any NX500 videos with vintage lenses?

I was also contemplating the a5100, it isn't 4K, but the 50mbps bitrate looks nice.

Great price. What kind of work do you do?

Yeah, you're probably right. I am still kicking myself for not buying the BMPCC last summer and now I feel like I am getting robbed if I can't get one for $500. I have a feeling they may lower the price again.

You're not wrong at all... Pretty spot on. I have a really nice collection of FD and Minolta MC lenses. Plus a set of Pentax K version lenses, 110 lenses, a set of Nikkors. A set of vintage cosmicar lenses that I currently use with my Q7, but picked up in case I ever get the BMPCC. Long story short... I have a lot of lenses. So, the ability to change lenses would be a plus, but one of the projects I am working on, will benefit from the run and gun advantages a fixed lens would give.

But, who knows, after seeing what Jonesy did with a t2i, I may hold off and make my first feature on my eos-m. I have a lot of thinking to do over the next couple of weeks

My only purpose for getting a new camera is for narrative work... no-budget shorts and features. I'm actually just finishing the sound mix on my first short. Currently, I have the eos-m and I freakin' love that little camera. As I approach a few ideas I have for features, I am interested in 4K for future proofing and the weighty image I've found downrezzing 4K to 1080p affords A couple of months ago, I could have cared less about 4K, I still have, and love my JVC 720p TV. Then I came up with an idea, that a gopro could be used in. I saw some footage from the gopro and it's protune settings and was pretty blown away by the 2.7K. Everything I had seen was downsampled to 1080p and it had a weight to it's image quality that made normal 1080p look thin... Even with such a small sensor. So, I did some more research and found there weren't too many options within my budget range. I looked at the LX-100 and then found it's baby brother... The FZ1000. But I love lenses, vintage lenses, so I wasn't very interested in a bridge camera until I saw this video... http://vimeo.com/115947851 Since, this was the only camera I found, within my price range, I was set on this, but I wanted to wait until the summer to see if the price would drop a little... Plus I won't have the money until mid July. In the meantime, the G7 was announced and in the back of my head, I am hoping the BMPCC will drop in price again. So, here I am trying to decide which camera to get and this little beast muddies the waters even more. Anyway, sorry for the long reply.

Wait so that fix only works in UHD mode? What about regular 4K, 24p mode?

I edited my comment so nobody else is misinformed. Thanks.

Ok, thanks. Good news. I didn't realize this was an option.

So, I already have a 1080p camera that I really like, but this summer I am in the market for an upgrade.... Price is a major issue. Until last night, I had my choice narrowed down to 3: BMPCC, Panasonic G7, or the FZ1000. I am late to the Samsung party... Although the NX1 is a very capable cam, for the money, I would rather invest in a more tried and true camera system, until I saw some footage out of this little beast!!! The color reproduction is fantastic, even with the kit lens and the iq is very organic and filmic. Of course, I agree about the 2.5K footage that was in the preproduction model... It looked effing incredible!!! I really wish Canon or Nikon or Panasonic would come out with a lower end camera that offered 2K, I love the look it gives. I was so wanting 2K that I was pondering a gopro 4 silver with the ribcage modification, so I can use c-mount lenses. Anyway, does anyone know... the bitrate of the 1080p, if MPEG streamclip works with the native file, of any good video samples with vintage lenses? Thanks.

Why is it bad to criticize someone's work? Are we, or you, not allowed to have an opinion? This whole turn of this post is silly. There are some good parts of it, and some not so good parts... FOR ME. I really like the low light, high ISO look of the film... To the point where it distracted from the story. I really liked the first shot. From my phone, I really couldn't see the subtitles that explained the setting was some alien planet. I thought it was dying earth. I actually like my assumption better. But, other than the out of context use of costumes and not being a fan of the title, I liked the short. It came out of the gate in the middle of conflict, without dumbing itself down. For the most part, the dialogue was well written and the characters had their own voice. The acting was decent. The blurry gun was off putting, I spent that entire portion of the short waiting for a rack focus that never occurred. Not sure why? I thought the "alien" prop was handled well and since I didn't, at first, realize they were on an alien planet, I didn't get the title. I get it now. Thanks.