Bruno Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 http://vimeo.com/59438541 From Dan Chung: "There is growing evidence that several owners’ production models of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera are experiencing serious issues with infinity focus on certain lenses. Initially, users identified the popular EOS fitTokina 11-16mm f2.8 as a problem lens, with an inability to focus anywhere near infinity when used with the BMCC. Now other users are reporting that other lenses are affected too." http://www.dslrnewsshooter.com/2013/02/13/the-blackmagic-cinema-camera-saga-continues-this-time-its-infinity-focus-issues/ (Edited the post - topics not allowed to consist of one URL and nothing else, and Dan was the original source for this info.) Taxrummawoodo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted February 15, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 15, 2013 Thanks Bruno but I have edited your post. Main topics cannot consist of just an URL leading people away from the forum to find out what the topic is about. You have to put more effort into the post and put the info in, along with your opinion of it if you have one. Dan's site was the first to run this article so I have changed the URL to point at him. Only fair the source gets the credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurtinMinorKey Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 The problem with this video is that the "problem" focus still looked fucking sweet. In fact, I think infinity focus would look silly in that shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Thanks Bruno but I have edited your post. Main topics cannot consist of just an URL leading people away from the forum to find out what the topic is about. You have to put more effort into the post and put the info in, along with your opinion of it if you have one. Dan's site was the first to run this article so I have changed the URL to point at him. Only fair the source gets the credit. Fair enough, was in a bit of a hurry but thought I'd share the news. Have you noticed similar problems btw? Hope this doesn't slow them down again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted February 16, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 16, 2013 I've mostly shot with adapted lenses on the Blackmagic, so not so much EF stuff and hardly used the 11-16mm. Though 90% of this video is Samyang 35mm, I used the Tokina 11-16mm it for a few shots here and infinity was not exactly very sharp. http://vimeo.com/53340005 I also noticed that there's a bit of flex in the mount of the camera but not sure if I should be worried about it yet. The Tokina has a shim which you can remove to fix the infinity issues https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3464747/Tokina_Shim_Removal_v2.pdf I need to do more tests with my camera before truly deciding if it has a fault or not. All I have at the moment is a strong suspicion. Why didn't the beta testers catch this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Maybe they were too busy trying to get shallow DOF shots? Maybe they were told they didn't have the latest build of the camera and expected some glitches. Or maybe there were not enough of them! Or the last maybe... Maybe it's not such a big issue and doesn't affect that many cameras... That's more of a 'hopefully'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted March 1, 2013 Author Share Posted March 1, 2013 They found a fix for this problem: http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4319&start=80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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