While we are still waiting for our new A-mount lenses Sony made a new PL-mount lens with terrific specs! It is a 14x High power zoom for high-end production!
“The SCL-Z18X140 is a new zoom lens for the PMW-F3 Super 35mm CineAlta compact camcorder. It is a 14x high-power zoom lens from 18mm-252mm at T3.8 (Wide). The SCL-Z18X140 has been specifically designed to fit to the PMW-F3 via the camcorder’s own FZ mount, expanding the operational flexibility of the PMW-F3 so it can be used for almost any application. The SCL-Z18X140 is the first zoom lens which you can operate with the zoom rocker of the [shoplink 9726 ebay]PMW-F3[/shoplink].”
Now, I want to see that kind of professional approach on future A-mount cameras and lenses too! Can’t wait to here more about the upcoming A9x!
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Any CZ news? SR1?
Too quiet recently. 🙁
i want more A77 firmware news … 🙁
I just got my A77(incredibly fast <20hours delivery)the supplier has put price back up so I may have been last person to get kit for £1299. FW upgrades are always welcome but I have no problem with camera as it is. Am more interested in new Alpha lenses. I have just had to buy cheap Tamron lens to fill gap while waiting So Sony are costing me money by not releasing even info on new alpha lenses. My hopes have gone right down now with the FF talk. I suspect 1650 will be one of with no proper tele-zoom partner. weather sealed 50-200/2.8(3.5/4)APS-C. of similar quality would be great but I don't see any sign of any more quality DT lenses.
i wish ISO can doing more detail when high ISO..
I’ll never buy a so complex lens made by Sony, only CZ prime lenses rule.
HOw’s this compared to the latest Sony 55-210mm OSS zoom lens?
I’m so confused now..
decision..decision!!!!
and where is alpha-mount equivalent of either.
“The Sony PMW-F3 is the camera that Sony says can surpass the film quality for the very first time! ”
As far as I know, the camera that Sony says can surpass the film quality is not the PMW-F3, but the CineAlta F65, which is three times more expensive. I could be wrong, of course, but these kind of claims should be supported with some kind of Press Release or official info from the source (a PR where some Sony rep makes that claim, for example)
My mess! Removed!
Good!
Now that Hi Def video an higher resolutions (4k, 5k, 8k..) are rising fast, I think we all will be using this kind of video quality (higher than film) on prosumer products in about 3 to 5 years.
Great times indeed!
Thats complete nonsense. The difference between a 4:2:2 high bitrate image from an hacked (Canon) DSLR or GH1 and an entry level Digital Motion Picture Camera as the PMW-F3 recording 35mbits 4:2:0 is still huge. In comparison the footage of any DSLR no matter what brand, what bitrate and what method of subsampling is used looks absolute rubbish, lacking of details and blurry.
And then these professional cameras can also do 4:4:4 via HD-SDI giving you an even better and more detailed image, making the gap even bigger.
There sure will be a time when consumer electronics can reach the IQ of such an camera but it’s long ahead also the time for 1080p as highest consumer standard for HD is far from beeing over, if properly used 1080p can produce great images (just look at the IQ you will get from a BluRay). The difference of 1080p and 2K will not be that visible on a screen that isn’t huge so it will be hard to sell this to people as it will be considerably more expensive (which is also due to manufacturing).
OK FK, what I said is a complete nosense. Let’s wait 5 years and then we can discuss this again.
In the meantime, go and see Star Wars Episode II, Collateral and Public Enemies (to mention a few) in a big theater screen. Shot (totally or partially) on 1080p… and have a nice look IMHO.
Im not pretending we’ll have a $500 Canon EOS with the image quality of a RED Epic-X in 5 years, but I’m sure the Canon 5D MKV (or whatever model Canon releases in 2017 for that price range) will be capable of 4K video, 4:2:2 sampling, a much better video codec, and a latitude comparable to that of film. Of course 4:4:4 is better than 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 sampling! And 16k is 3 times more resolution than 4k! But that doesn’t mean it’s needed.
You can’t hear the difference between a 96KHz and a 192KHz audio recording. Period.
And I’m sure you can’t tell the difference between a 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 video footage without pausing the image (which is the intended use of video).
Of course, for blue/green screen recording, the higher chroma sampling the better, but for non-VFX footage, 4:2:2 does just fine!
And lastly, have a look at some iPhone 4s videos. I bet NOBODY would have said 5 years ago you’ll be able to get that video quality from a mobile phone camera.
Ah, and we should go to theaters to see Act Of Valor when it’s released, shot 80% using Canon DSLR’s (5DMkII, 7D and 1D) by Shane Hurlbut. I guess we won’t notice that much difference with film…. but let’s see it!
Hopefully the A mount lenses will be something more interesting than a 14x zoom lens.
Sorry, replied to the wrong one… 😛
FZ mount to E-mount or A-mount adapter?
You guys do realize that this lens costs about 10.000€ or 14.000$.
By the way Cine Lenses are Huge and when I say huge I mean Huge I’ve put my Minolta 85 F1.4G next to the Sony 85 T2 and it looked ridiculously small.
As you can read in the Post above you can also see that it was designed to be used with the zoom rocker on the right side of the F3, neither the nex nor the alpha cameras have such and that wouldn’t have a point, too this is a feature purely needed for video. (If you still want something like that buy minolta xi lenses and start being unhappy about it)
If all you do is about photo the best you can do is forget about this lens it has no relevance at all, i know that this focal range with something equivalent to F3.4-3.5 is quite special but it isn’t going to happen, if you still think you need something like that get yourself a Zeiss 24-70 2.8 and a Sony 70-200 2.8 , it will be a lot cheaper a lot more compact and it will have better light transmission.
However if all you do is about professional video with a large budget then this lens is kind of attractive especially pushing the F3 a little more in the broadcast direction at for an astonishingly low price of only 10.000€, still for motion picture T3.8 is a little unattractive but still usable in my opinion.