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After ten years shooting documentaries for broadcast, I've spent a long time looking for lenses that give me the flexibility I need when filming real life — without giving up the character and control of cinema lenses.  These new full-frame cine zooms might just be the closest I've found.

In this film I take them out into the real world and put them through the kind of shooting I actually do: fast-moving documentary work, manual focus, long focus pulls, zooming while maintaining focus, shallow depth of field, bokeh, flare, focus breathing and plenty of real-world run-and-gun shooting.

I haven't held back on the things I don't like about them either.

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The lenses featured in this film are the DZOFilm Arles 25–75mm T2.6 and 65–180mm T2.6 full-frame cine zooms.

Disclosure

DZOFilm lent me these lenses to me for this collaboration, I am sending them back. However as part of the collaboration they are giving me a different set of lenses. I only agreed to do this review because they have no control over my script and even told me to be as brutally honest as I wanted. And they haven't seen this video before publication.  Everything I say in this film is my own opinion and experience using the lenses.

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Chapters

00:00 Some shots only exist for a few seconds
00:20 My documentary background
01:09 Then Everything Changed
01:42 The big problem
01:56 Super 35 adapter
02:18 The monstrous Canon CN7 x 17
02:33 The Phone Call
03:43 Parfocality
06:22 Manual Focus
07:53 Focus Breathing
08:12 The focal lengths for documentary work
09:35 Bathing with beavers
10:03 The image quality - look
10:37 Bokeh
11:03 Colour consistency
11:18 Pricing
11:38 Why not buy a Sony G Master instead?
11:55 Conclusion



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