Turn Your AF100 into an ENG Camera

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Guy,
Great tutorial.
Thanks for bring it here.
rafael
PS: You have been nominated my personal AF-100 adviser 🙂

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[Rafael Amador]

Hi guy,
I’ve been thinking about this idea.
Old Betacam lenses are 2/3.
What about those lenses?
There are lot of them (Fuji, Canon) and very cheap.
rafael

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[Guy Mcloughlin]

To use a 2/3″ lens you will need something like the AbelCine HDx2 B4/PL Optical Adapter which doubles the focal-length and enables the lens to fully cover the much bigger m4/3 sensor.

I expect that this optical adapter is not cheap.

[Rafael Amador]

[Guy McLoughlin] “To use a 2/3″ lens you will need something like the AbelCine HDx2 B4/PL Optical Adapter which doubles the focal-length and enables the lens to fully cover the much bigger m4/3 sensor.”
Guy, many of these Betacam lenses have “duplicator”.
I don’t know much, but a 2/3 lens is a 2/3 lens for HD and for SD. The difference may be that in the SD the lens is framed for 4×3 and in the HD for 16×9.
The thing is to know if with the same adapter those lenses would work.
HD lenses are great but too expensive.
Don’t know if I’m saying a “bêtise”.

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[Guy Mcloughlin]

I think you will have to test, as I can`t imagine that it is this easy, otherwise more people would be using these old lenses, and AbelCine could not charge a lot for their optical duplicator.