14x canon XL manual lens

Ian Thomas · June 6th, 2008, 01:51 PM

sorry if this as been asked before but is this lens any good on the XLH1

Thanks

Robert Sanders · June 6th, 2008, 02:09 PM

It's a fantastic lens. Whenever we had difficult rack focus shots and Steadicam work we'd use the 14x manual lens.

Canon really over engineered that lens. While they publicly say that it's only rated for SD use, they do admit that the resolution of the lens is suitable for HD work.

I can verify with our own testing that the lens does resolve well on the H1. It is a lot more contrasty than the 20x and 6x though. Just keep that in mind when swapping lenses on the same show show. We duplicated our usual preset and lifted blacks slightly to compensate.

Ian Thomas · June 6th, 2008, 02:38 PM

Thankyou for that Robert

Even with the poor viewfinder you can get sharp images with the lens

Robert Sanders · June 19th, 2008, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ian Thomas

Thankyou for that Robert

Even with the poor viewfinder you can get sharp images with the lens

I can't say for sure how hard it was to focus in the viewfinder as I didn't operate the camera on my shoot. But we did have a 7" LCD on top of the camera that the AC primarily used. He probably could judge focus pretty accurately with that.

And I was always sitting in front of a Cinema Display constantly screaming, "SOFT!"

June 6th, 2008, 01:51 PM	#1
Ian Thomas Major Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: York, North Yorkshire, England. Posts: 230	14x canon XL manual lens sorry if this as been asked before but is this lens any good on the XLH1 Thanks __________________ Ian Thomas. Thomas Video Productions

June 6th, 2008, 02:09 PM	#2
Robert Sanders Starway Pictures Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Studio City Posts: 373	It's a fantastic lens. Whenever we had difficult rack focus shots and Steadicam work we'd use the 14x manual lens. Canon really over engineered that lens. While they publicly say that it's only rated for SD use, they do admit that the resolution of the lens is suitable for HD work. I can verify with our own testing that the lens does resolve well on the H1. It is a lot more contrasty than the 20x and 6x though. Just keep that in mind when swapping lenses on the same show show. We duplicated our usual preset and lifted blacks slightly to compensate. __________________ http://www.starwaypictures.com http://starwaypictures.blogspot.com/

June 6th, 2008, 02:38 PM	#3
Ian Thomas Major Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: York, North Yorkshire, England. Posts: 230	Thankyou for that Robert Even with the poor viewfinder you can get sharp images with the lens __________________ Ian Thomas. Thomas Video Productions

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