- All right guys, my absolute favorite lens to use,
okay, this would have to be Fujinon MK series lenses.
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So, I'm very sorry for me slacking
and not producing that much content, as of lately.
In 2020, I'm gonna be planning to roll
a lot more video content, a lot more reviews
and a lot more behind the scenes stuff
to talk about our productions,
what we use in our productions
and other things video-related wise.
So, in this video, we're talking about
the Fujinon MK E-mount cinema lenses, okay.
So, I got these lenses, this set of lenses, here,
about, almost two years ago, now.
But in a couple months it will be two years
and I love these lenses.
These lenses are amazing, I use them all the time,
if you're running E-mount, so,
for us, we are running on the Sony FS7
and we are using an A73 and an A7R Mark Two,
these are all E-mounted cameras
and the Fujinon MK series lenses
are built with a few different lens mounts,
they have the Sony E-mount, they have a Fujifilm mount
and they have Micro Four Thirds mount.
Okay, so and the reasons that they can do that,
that the flange's distance on those different cameras
is very similar so they just have
different mounts to use one them.
And I have actually changed out these mounts
as of lately, been shooting a lot more on Black Magic,
I have the Black Magic 6K and I have the Black Magic 4K
and looking at getting the Ursa Mini Pro G2
but on the Black Magic 4K, it is a Micro Four Thirds mount,
so, I got these adapters for the mounts,
I got these from a company overseas in the UK,
I have that linked to in the description below
and it was very simple to change out these mounts,
it is very simple but you also have to be very careful
because you can very easily, as easily as you
can change them, you can easily
strip the screws on these mounts,
so, I get them to ship it to me with some extra screws,
you wanna make sure you're using the right screwdriver
and you're putting some pressure on these.
You can also send it off to them
for service for them to swap the mounts for you
but I wanted to have the option
of being able to change these back mounts
myself so I could use it on my Sony camera,
still, when I need to and use
it on my Micro Four Thirds cameras.
So, what's great about these lenses?
What makes these lenses different?
If you're using still glass,
if you're using still photo glass,
which a lot of us have been using for a long time,
what is different on using a cinema lens?
So, if you've never used a cinema lens before,
there's a few different things that's gonna be going
on in here, you're gonna have it all manual,
you're gonna have a very smooth aperture,
so, you can do aperture pulls, you're also gonna have
your measurements in T stops and not in F stops,
in a past video, I talked to you a bit about
the difference between F stops and T stops.
You're also gonna get a longer throw
on the focus ring, here, and you're gonna have
hard stops on this and this lens,
its kind of like an between a full,
you know, Fujinon zoom and a smaller DSLR lens,
where this is a very light lens.
For a simple glass, this is very light
and it is got beautiful images,
I've shot some amazing stuff with this
and what I like, for a lot of the
style of work that I do, kind of,
a lot of run and gun, a lot of single operator stuff,
a lot of the time where I'm working on documentary stuff
or branded content that way, where I don't really
have the time or I don't wanna slow down my process
to change out lenses, so this changes over prime lenses.
So, I wanna lens that looks great,
give me, kind of, a very good shallow depth of field
and is works very fast, like me, moving around.
I love the old days when we had just an ENG lens
on the front of a camera and that was our whole range
and we could use that for a whole day
and just have a couple batteries with us.
These days have kind of changed,
with the whole thing with DSLRs
and multiple lenses that we can change
so we can get a different look with it
but a lot of times, I'm going out with a bag
that's just having these two lenses on it,
maybe I have one more longer lens on it
and maybe I have one more wider lens.
Okay, so, for the range you're getting with these lenses,
I have the 18 to 55, these work for super 35 sensors,
crop sensors, not on full framing, you can't use those
on full frame camera, so, if you're on your
A73 or A7R Mark Two, you need to put it into
a super 35 mode, into cropped mode
but you're getting a great range on these lenses
and the other lens, the longer lens
is a 50 to 135, so, the focal length
on these lenses actually change a bit
because of the Micro Four Thirds sensor.
So, for example, the 18 to 55,
you're getting roughly around
a 35 millimeter focal distance,
so, that to a 55 and then that in this side,
going from a 50 to 135, now, this becomes a really
long lens at the back end of it
because you're now getting a 135 times two basically,
that's the focal distance you're really getting
with this Micro Four Thirds Sensor,
when you're using these lenses on them.
So, what are the big benefits of using a lens like this?
Using a cinema zoom glass, why do you wanna use it
and what are the benefits of that?
For me, one of the big things is the speed of it,
so, how fast I can get a large range
of focal lengths on one piece of glass
or two pieces of glass, how smooth the focus
ring is and accurate that is.
Also how it is parfocal, meaning if I zoom in on something
and I pull back out, it will all stay in focus.
This is something that cinema glass has
that stills glass does have, parfocal is a big deal.
So, if I wanna do a push in zoom,
everything will stay in focus.
I can use tilter nucleus on this,
I can have one motor on the focus
and one motor on the zoom
and I can do some really cool things like that,
I can have it on a remote head
and I can adjust both my focus and my zoom with it.
If I had a third motor, I could also be doing my aperture.
That's a great thing with these lenses,
another thing is, they're exactly the same size
and they're exactly the same weight, so,
when I change out these lenses,
when I pop this one of and put this one in,
if I had rails on a and I have a fall focus on
or I have a wireless fall focus on
and I have a matte box, it all lines up,
its all perfectly, exactly the same.
So, again, one of these big benefits
of using lenses like this is speed,
this really is gonna increase your speed
and how quick you can move from lens to lens.
If you're using a stills glass
or all different lengths, different shapes,
different barrel size or different lens flange size
on the front of the lenses,
these are things that you're gonna have
to readjust for and slows you down,
so, a benefit of cinema glass
is a matching and these two being exactly the same weight,
so, if I'm balanced on a gimble,
which I have used this before on my FS7 on a Ronin 2,
I'm balanced for the one lens
and I wanna switch out for the longer lens.
Its still balanced perfect, big deal.
So, real world testing, I've been using these
for almost two years, I'm pretty hard on my gear,
I'm very hard on my gear, a lot of the times
and they have stood up.
If you're shooting Sony and you're shooting
with something like the FS7 or an A7 series,
with the E-mount, these are awesome, awesome lenses to get.
You can rent from a lot of different places, as well.
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