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Flange to Sensor for Cine Lenses
Equipment

The Great Flange-to-Sensor Distance Article: Part 1 — Cine Cameras

## Part 1: EF and FE Mount Cine Cameras Consider, if you will, the fate of Poor Ben. Unbeknownst to Poor Ben, Aaron and I had started experimenting with measuring the flange-to-sensor distance of various video cameras, since we found that it varied more than, well, more than we had thought it…

Roger Cicala · June 3, 2020
Equipment

The Most Important Photo and Video Products of the Last Decade

This past week marks not only a new year but a new decade as well. As usual, with this time of the year, we find ourselves in reflection and motivated to see what the new year (and in this case, new decade) will bring. In the previous couple weeks, you’ve seen us present our end of the year data…

Zach Sutton · January 8, 2020
Equipment

A Look Into the New Sony FS7 Mark II

We inspect a lot of video cameras, and design flaws tend to catch our eye quickly and consistently slow the inspection process. To the casual user, removing a hard-to-reach memory card once or twice is a mild inconvenience — one that they might not even give a conscious thought. To a full-time…

Joshua Richardson · February 2, 2017
Equipment

An Argument for the Sony FS5

When I first saw the Sony FS5, I figured that it could be a fun secondary camera and not more. I expected to use it primarily as a slow-motion camera when I need one; I didn’t see it becoming too much more than that. Sony’s FS5 is the smaller and lighter sibling of the Sony FS7. This little guy…

Justin Kelly · August 2, 2016