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LIGHTWEIGHT LUMIX Panasonic’s new Lumix G90 has some of the features of the GH5 but is smaller and more affordable. The £899/$999 MFT camera has a 20.3-megapixel Live MOS sensor, five-axis image stabilisation and offers 4K recording as well as HD up to 120fps for super slow-motion. There is Face/Eye Detection AF, an OLED Live Viewfinder with 2,360k-dot resolution, 100%field of view, 0.74x magnification and a three- inch OLED rear monitor. It is capable of 4K video at 30p/25p/24p and Full HD at 60p/50p. It can record 4:2:2 8-bit to an external monitor and V-Log L is pre-installed for wider dynamic range. panasonic.com
Old-school look for Canon
are £6840/$7410 for the 24, 35, 50 and 85mm lenses, and £7164/$7410 for the 14, 20 and 135mm. They are designed for a softer, more cinematic look and warm colour tone rather than the ultimate in sharpness across the frame. They feature a large aspheric element and anomalous dispersion glass, which claims to offer a ‘delicate, velvety nuance’ when shot wide open. All lenses have an 11-blade iris and precise manual control, with virtually no focus breathing. The lenses all have 0.8 pitch lens gears for both iris and focus rings and these are positioned consistently across the range. There is a 300° rotation angle for precise focusing. They all have the same 114mm front diameter to speed up lens changes when rigs are used, and use 105mmfilters. canon.co.uk
Canon has revealed a brand new range of seven prime cinema lenses that not only are designed for use on full-frame or Super35 cameras but give a unique, vintage-inspired feel to the images. The new Sumire Prime lenses look almost identical to the current range of Canon primes and are all fast T-stop optics with an interchangeable PL mount, which can be modified to an EF mount. That makes them ideal for high-end full-frame cinema cameras like Red, Arri or Canon’s own C700FF as well as full-frame Canon DSLRs. However, the Sumires are almost double the price of the standard Canon cine primes. The widest is the CN-E14mm T3.1 FP X, alongside the CN-E20mm T/1.5 FP X, CN- E24mm T1.5 FP X, CN-E35mm T1.5 FP X, CN-E50mm T1.3 FP X, CN-E85mm T1.3 FP X and CN-E135mm T2.2 FP X. Prices
FUJINON GOES LARGE
to transmit lens data to the camera and there’s a four-pin LEMO mount on the body. Both lenses use a 13-blade aperture for smooth bokeh, have a 280° focus rotation, 120°zoom rotation and 48° iris rotation. The shorter lens focuses to 0.8m/2ft 7in while the longer lens to 1.5m/4ft 11in. UK prices have not yet been announced for the lenses, which will be available this summer, but the US prices are £29,700/$38,800 for the 28-100mmand £765/$1000 more for the 80-250mm. More lenses in the Premista series will be revealed when they are available. fujifilm.com
Hot on the heels of the popular FujinonMK and Cabrio cinema zooms for Super35 size sensors comes a pair of compact and lightweight zooms to fit full-frame cameras. The Fujinon Premista zooms come in 28-100mmT2.9 and 80-250mmwhich is T2.9 until 200mm then gradually ramps to T3.5 at the longer end. Both lenses are the same size and 3.8kg/8.3lb weight, tomake lens swaps quicker. If the 80- 250mmhad been a constant T2.9, it would have been larger, heavier andmore expensive. They come in a PLmount only. The lens mounts have a data port which uses a Cooke/i interface
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