AlessandroSteri Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Hi everybody, i'm going to buy a Black magic Cinema Camera EF mount and i really need to know the widest solution i have for it. At the moment i have a tokina 11-16 that is good on my t2i but it's not enough on the 2,3 crop factor of black magic. Do you know if there is any wider solution for my camera that is not fish eye? I've read about la7200, does it make a litte bit wider? it shoul be 1.33 times wider right? and last question, my tokina has 77mm diameter, and i've found a good offer for la7200 but i've read it is 72mm what do i have to do?? i need an adaptor? will it work at 11mm or it gonna make vignette?? thank you so much!! best earnesync 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Cunningham Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 If you haven't bought it yet get the MFT mount instead and a Metabones Speed Booster and you're back in business with the 11-16mm (assuming appropriate adapter can be worked out). The LA7200 can be used with wider lenses than just about any other anamorphic adapter. It's worth a shot though 11mm is wider than I've ever read being compatible. You should check out the anamorphic forum and study up on the diopters you're going to need to make it feasible though. You're better off buying a Speed Booster and getting more FOV that way, if you can change your order from EF to MFT. An LA7200 is going to cost well over a thousand dollars, until something like the SLR Magic anamorphic lens is for sale and when that happens there will be little reason to spend $1500 on a used LA7200 when you could spend that on a new adapter that doesn't absolutely require diopters to be useful for nominal shooting. You could easily spend as much as the price of a brand new BMCC on an LA7200 and the necessary diopters. A Speed Booster is under $500. Zmu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Bannister Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I used that set up and it was outstanding. Thats what I was going to say but i thought everyone had thought of this before. You gain a stop and get your wide end back and the booster is less then you would spend on a new lens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Cunningham Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Yeah, now that it's a reality (the Speed Booster) it turns a BMCC into an effective 22mm sensor, right in the ballpark of Super-35mm (in the sense that the 7D and other APS-C sensors are often claimed to be S35 equivalent). With the drop in price on the 2.5K BMCC it kinda seems like a no brainer. Especially if you need to get to a FOV equivalent to a true, cinematic wide. You start having to dip into the below 12mm category and the prices get really ugly, really fast. Heh, it does mean you'll want an extra stop of ND for daylight shooting though ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Bannister Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 yup the Tokina 11-16 and the sigma 18-35 are my BMCC lenses with the speedbooster, so awesome Peter Haken 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbin Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I also would recommend the BMCC MFT mount + Speedbooster. The MFT Speedbooster has more sharpness in the edges then the EF version. Here it works great too with the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 non vc. The Nikkor AF-S 12-24mm F4.0 G IF-ED seems to be a little soft with the setup though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Cunningham Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I also would recommend the BMCC MFT mount + Speedbooster. The MFT Speedbooster has more sharpness in the edges then the EF version. Here it works great too with the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 non vc. The Nikkor AF-S 12-24mm F4.0 G IF-ED seems to be a little soft with the setup though. The softness could be the lens itself, unless you've done comparative testing with the same lens on a true APS-C camera (in the case of evaluating a given lens on a Speed Boosted BMCC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I also vote for the Speed Booster and the BMCC MFT. If the BMCC Canon EF is the only option, then I think the cheapest/easiest option for ultra wide would be the Sigma 8-16mm. It's the widest non-fisheye available. Used in this video for example: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulraymaekers Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 MFT mount and the panasonic 7-14 ? paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itimjim Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 MFT mount and the panasonic 7-14 ? paul BMCC passive mount. Only works on the BMPCC. My go to wide is on MFT BMCC + Tokina 11-16/2.8 + MFT>NIK SpeedBooster. It's as rectilinear wide as you're going to get before going fishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Roche Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 BMCC passive mount. Only works on the BMPCC. My go to wide is on MFT BMCC + Tokina 11-16/2.8 + MFT>NIK SpeedBooster. It's as rectilinear wide as you're going to get before going fishing. I really need a wide lens been researching a ton, almost bought the Tokina 11-16. The only problem I found and correct me if im wrong was that the lens doesnt have a manual aperature control and you cannot change the aperature from the BMCC MFT version not even with the speedbooster. Bottom line how would you be able to change the aperature with this lens without putting it on a BMCC EF version? Please help! ^.^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rak_heri Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Hi Alessandro You should really consider getting the MFT version - options for wide / ultra wide are very limited with the EF mount version. For MFT, you can either get mft lenses or get EF lenses + Speed Booster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianl Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I'm confused, the speedbooster takes a m43 camera and allow you to adapt a vintage Nikon or Canon piece of glass. What if you want to attach your m43 lenses to a speedbooster for your bmpcc? Do they make a m43 only speedbooster? I can't find them. All the speedboosters seem to convert to something other than m43. I just want to stay in m43 world and get the perk of the wider FOV and speed the speedbooster affords us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rak_heri Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 @brianl a m43 Speedbooster is impossible. The idea is that you take a lens made for larger sensors (full-frame or APS-C) and make it work on a smaller sensor with a piece of glass that focuses the light on a smaller area Maybe you can do a special version of Speedbooster that will do the same thing for m43 lenses but on a m43 body (GH3, OMD M1 and others), the lens will heavily vignette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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