Friday, October 19, 2018

Stills v.s. Cinema Lenses

What are 4 key differences between still lenses for video and cinema lenses? Why would you use a still lens to shoot video? What would you need in order to shoot with proper cinema lenses?

Cinema lenses has focus marks clearly marked on the side for the focus puller working on the side of the lens. Because these marks need to be consistent throughout all shoot, they include hard stops. Cinema lenses are more expensive and are engineered to be as precise as possible. Additional differences include the T-stop instead of the F-stop and a larger glass size.  On the other hand, still lenses have focus marks but they are often harder to read because a focus puller is not needed. These lenses' focus rings do not have hard stops. Still lenses include less options regarding the aperture. They often have different aperture availability when zoomed in. Additionally, still photography lenses cannot keep focus upon zooming in and out.

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