zerocool22 Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Hello guys, Never been into autofocus for video, but lately I see def a use for it. Which are your favorite Full frame autofocus lenses? On canon or sony (panasonic is still behind). As I am thinking about buying a canon or sony camera just for autofocus. I will keep using panasonic S5 or blackmagic camera's for manual focus stuff. - With the least lens breathing. - Slowest aputure I would use is 2.8, 35mm 1.4/1.2 is prolly all I need. But a runandgun 24-70mm might be handy as well. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 1 hour ago, zerocool22 said: Hello guys, Never been into autofocus for video, but lately I see def a use for it. Which are your favorite Full frame autofocus lenses? On canon or sony (panasonic is still behind). As I am thinking about buying a canon or sony camera just for autofocus. I will keep using panasonic S5 or blackmagic camera's for manual focus stuff. - With the least lens breathing. - Slowest aputure I would use is 2.8, 35mm 1.4/1.2 is prolly all I need. But a runandgun 24-70mm might be handy as well. Thanks! If you're concerned about breathing then it's worth mentioning that Sony have lens breathing compensation built into some of their newer bodies. The lenses still breathe, but the camera knows their 'profile' and crops into the image a small amount and as the lens changes focus the camera adjusts the digital zoom to keep a perfect frame and eliminate the focus breathing. In the tests I've seen the results are absolutely perfect and it's one of those things that I didn't think I cared about much until I saw images where it was eliminated and you see how much of an improvement it is to have it gone. I think that unless you have a huge amount of money to spend on lenses then you'd be better off going for a system like this that adjusts digitally rather than paying a lot for a lens without much breathing, as I'd imagine those are likely to be more expensive cine lenses. Happy to be proven wrong, but the Sony compensation seem to do a great job. Sony AF is also very impressive so you wouldn't be compromising there either. zerocool22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I agree with @kye, get a camera such as the Sony FX30 and let the camera handle lens breathing in camera. As also, any lens that has no lens breathing is likely to be a cinema lens... and thus won't have autofocus anyway! zerocool22 and majoraxis 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSMW Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 Indeed and this was something I was quite drawn to with one of my possible future systems, the combo of great AF and focus breathing compensation with Sony. zerocool22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerocool22 Posted November 13, 2022 Author Share Posted November 13, 2022 oh that's great, did not know that feature. I was going for either a canon r6 II or the sony A7IV. So I will prolly end up with the sony A7IV allthough I have a bunch of EF lenses, which is prolly better supported with the EF-RF adapter. kye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dolega Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 The R6II has breathing compensation as well. Kisaha and kye 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSMW Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 One note of caution re. this control of focus breathing and that is I don’t think it simply works with all lenses, but specific ones. Sony at least has a list. Not sure about Canon… kye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowfun Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 This must be a claimant of the title for the “best”? Sony E 18-110mm F4 G OSS IronFilm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt3rs Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 4 hours ago, MrSMW said: One note of caution re. this control of focus breathing and that is I don’t think it simply works with all lenses, but specific ones. Sony at least has a list. Not sure about Canon… At the moment it seems a huge list 🙂: https://cam.start.canon/en/H001/supplement_0160.html kye, zerocool22 and IronFilm 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSMW Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 3 hours ago, gt3rs said: At the moment it seems a huge list 🙂: https://cam.start.canon/en/H001/supplement_0160.html All both of them? 😆 IronFilm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 3 hours ago, gt3rs said: At the moment it seems a huge list 🙂: https://cam.start.canon/en/H001/supplement_0160.html All I'm seeing is that it won't be that expensive to get into! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 34 minutes ago, MrSMW said: All both of them? 😆 Hope you don't want to use a lens longer than 30mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MurtlandPhoto Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 Sony's breathing compensation, at least for now, only works with some of their more expensive G and G Master lenses–no third party lens support as of yet. That could be a deal breaker for some. kye and IronFilm 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 20 hours ago, IronFilm said: Hope you don't want to use a lens longer than 30mm That vlog life tho... MrSMW 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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