I Used A Cinema Lens To Take Photos

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I Used A Cinema Lens To Take Photos | Does It Work?

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Ever wonder if a cinema lens can be used for photography? I attempted to test out this Canon 50mm CN-E lens to find out! I also explain some key differences between a cinema lens vs a photography lens, such as F-stop vs T-stop, Aperture, and focusing!
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TIMELINE:
0:00 Intro
0:42 Stabilization
1:44 Focusing
2:21 T-Stop vs F-Stop
4:27 BTS Using This Lens
5:13 Photo Results From The Cinema Lens
7:53 Using a Cinema Lens Overall For Photography

Пікірлер: 39

@Fireshot_media 8 ай бұрын

My opinion is I’m not interested in sharpness and clarity as I don’t print my work, I’m more interinterested in the overall side by side of the two to feel if there is a difference

@DanielAvinashVOX Ай бұрын

I was expecting that as well.

@brakel8r 10 күн бұрын

the character of that cine lens is delicious

@roycrxtw Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Learned a lot about the cinema lens. Thanks.

@MattKendallPhotoVideo Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear! Thanks very much!

@aerozg 2 ай бұрын

My Nikon D750 shows a dot in the lower left part of the screen when the subject is in focus, which is very helpful with manual focus lenses.

@justm720 3 ай бұрын

I found it difficult to use as comparrison reference since the picture witch wasnt compared the same... too many differendt variables. Comparing a picture that was not madniffied and then magnify and not do the same for the other photos.. just spins my brain... i would have liked seeing all images not magnified and compared and then a magnified comparison... or something consistant like that...

@stinkypete9070 6 ай бұрын

I ended up using my second cine lens as a photo lens on my cheapo b cam, totally overkill - but mainly because despite the price of a cine lens, it’s still cheaper than a cine lens + photo lens. Also lets me change t stops on the lens itself instead of the awkward touch screen and also kind of neat for scouting a spot, you can match settings later when you bring the cine body around I suppose

@DrHeribertHilke Жыл бұрын

I love that cinema lens!

@MattKendallPhotoVideo Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@AndrewBerube41 3 ай бұрын

So would the transmission of light factor on the cinema lenses help me in astrophotography ?

@Arelaxedguy Жыл бұрын

Guys am I loosing it or are these pictures literally different just because of the glass? 😂

@johnadams3038 8 ай бұрын

fr they look same lol

@timothymatthews6458 2 ай бұрын

@@johnadams3038 Yeah, but I've seen videos in which the cinema lens completely transforms the image. Some cinema lenses will add a certain tint and color contrast to the image that looks completely different from photography lenses. An example is vintage lenses.

@ricoalves 6 ай бұрын

Great video. I'm planning buy a cinema lens to video and eventually make astrophotography

@kultyurgeym 9 ай бұрын

Glad to see your video because I'm planning to upgrade my lens. Now, I think it is better to jump into cinema lens since the sharpness is pretty amazing

@MattKendallPhotoVideo 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Every cinema lens is going to be different in terms of sharpness. Some films want softer looks, so they’ll use various lenses to achieve that softness. Overall the canon glass is very sharp!

@Renegade1127 11 ай бұрын

Too expensive for me. My solution would be something vintage like the Meyer Optik Gorlitz 'Oreston' 50mm f1.8 with the aperture ring 'de-clicked'. I picked one up, on an Exakta RTL1000 body,for just £50 (US $63).

@perkrafft3904 5 ай бұрын

I have just bought a cine-lens, IRIX 21mm to my Canon EOS R6 Mark II. However, my camera won´t take any picture or even make a video. I guess there should be some kind of settings, but what settings should i do to be able to use my cine-lens? With an ordinary Canon lens there is not any problem at all to take pictures or make a video. Does anyone have a tip what i should do, maybe what kind of settings?

@blackbugmedia 4 ай бұрын

Custom settings >- take photos without a card

@aloysiusyudistianto3611 Жыл бұрын

I feel that the cine lens has a more noticable fringing than the RF lens. Both still beautiful lens though.

@MattKendallPhotoVideo Жыл бұрын

It’s very little, but thanks for noticing! You spotted it better than me!

@EdwinFairchild 11 ай бұрын

Wait so in video if there is no auto focus how do they know for sure that their focus is spot on ? Are they just eyeballing it?

@MattKendallPhotoVideo 11 ай бұрын

Good question! Many camera bodies today have a feature know as focus peaking. The camera detects edges that will have a high contrast and highlights them with colors such as red or green. This is how cinema lenses are spot on with focus and because the focus is controlled manually, you can use focus peaking to determine how far of a rotation you need to turn the focus wheel if you’re trying to pan focus back and fourth between subjects.

@philipspitz2402 8 ай бұрын

focus peaking is definitely one very popular way to do it but there are also other ways like false color overlays that highlight out of focus areas in different colours depending on how strongly and in which direction they are out of focus. also tbh eyeballing can be done and works much better than it does in photography. first of all its not as important to have focus in the exact right spot in video. faces shifting in and out of focus a little bit can even look good on video. another aspect is that video is often shot in 4k (although this is less true for large productions nowadays 6k and 8k are quite common in those now). 4k is about 8 megapixels so there is less sharpness required than on a photo with 20-50 megapixels. in video eyeballing also tends to work better because videographers often use larger and higher resolution external monitors and not just the camera display.

@l8lygr4y 3 ай бұрын

Television in the late 1980s through mid 1990s, handheld efp we eyeballed. If off noticeably the director would call "handheld rack focus (near/far, depending)". Shooting eng, sometimes Canon style center ball guide, mostly eyeball though, you know your glass like your own eyes.

@MindzEyz 9 ай бұрын

I can't seem to get an answer from anyone on if the focus guides will work on cinema lenses that have no contacts (fully manual)... like any other brand except for Canon? Have you ever tried a 3rd party Cinema lens to know if the focus guides work? It's just pointing to an object in frame and letting you know if that distance is in focus... I'm not sure why it wouldn't work, but I need to know if the focus guide is just a gimmick in actual use because most people don't shoot Canon Cinema lenses.

@MattKendallPhotoVideo 9 ай бұрын

I’m not fully sure myself. If there are no contacts visible on the lens, then I would assume no. I was actually surprised the focus guides worked when I attached it to the R6 mkII. If I get my hands on other 3rd party lenses, I’ll let you know. Was there a specific cinema lens you’re referring to?

@kiralysebastien5388 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@MattKendallPhotoVideo Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@vojtekvojtek3599 Жыл бұрын

Hello, there are already film lenses for 500 euros. Can you tell me if they are better for photography as well as film? If so, what are they better at? I want to buy it, but I don't know if it's worth it. Well thank you!

@MattKendallPhotoVideo Жыл бұрын

Hey! Cinema lenses are designed mainly for video and not photography. It’s not to say you can’t use it for both, but it has its limitations for sure. I tried it to see what kind of results I’d get and they were good, but I would personally stick with using cinema lenses for video only. Hope this helps!

@David-mg1yj 8 ай бұрын

Is it possible to use a follow focus on a still's camera?

@gluteusmaximus7608 6 ай бұрын

Yep. The lens is the most important. Cine lenses usually have a longer focus throw which makes manual focusing easier + ridges on the focus ring to attach to a follow focus system. You can buy attachment rings with ridges for any lens though.

@MindzEyz 9 ай бұрын

Not really. Since nearly all have no contacts, it seems like a weird tool to develop if it only works on 1 brand of lens...