film lens ?

[Gary Adcock]

[carlos castro] “{A} you can’t zoom in on film lenses like and eng lens. They are fixed focal lengths. “

No those would be Prime Lenses.

ENG style tends to be lighter, more compact with zoom controls on the lens and cheaper, there are ENG/ B4 mount primes but mostly those are used on commercial shoots.

Cine style lenses can be either Primes or Zooms, have front elements, focus and aperture gearing all the same size/ ratio to allow for lenses to be swapped without changing all of the accessories. Additionally Cine Style lenses usually focus more accurately, breath less (changing focus when zooming) and are engineered to have consistent aperture numbers and focus marks on the lens itself.

“{B} You have products like letus, redrock etc.. and their job is to convert the image from it being upside down to right sideup in your video camera. “

nope again.
Those product allow you to use higher end lenses with Pl or B4 mounts on lesser cameras, or cameras with fixed lenses on them to try and achieve a more filmic look by having less depth of field ( DoF)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

Inside look at the IoHD
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/AJAIOHD.php

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks Gary.

[Steve Eisen]

Carlos

This website should give you some education
https://www.zacuto.com/

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks Steve. Ironically what little I know about the subject I’ve learned it from the tutorials zacuto has, lol.

When you are on the outside looking in, it can be complicated but with the help of the people on this site as well as some others I’m slowly figuring things out cinema lenses.

Thanks for your help Steve.