In September 2018 I had the rare chance of working with a beast of a lens: The Canon 50-1000mm cine servo lens for s35 sensors. It’s huge, it’s expensive and it is quite heavy but for the provided focal range and overall performance it’s actually quite compact! This is my personal review of this impressive cine zoom lens. The Canon 50-1000mm is a strange lens. The story goes that one Ivo Nörenberg approached Canon with his idea of the perfect wildlife zoom lens which offers a vast focal range in a compact and somewhat lightweight design. Canon accepted the challenge and the 50-1000mm cine servo was the result. With a length of 15.9″ (40,4 cm) and a weight of 14.6 lbs (6,6 kg), this zoom lens is quite compact for what it has to offer: a 20:1 zoom range, servo motors for zoom, iris and focus plus a 1.5x extender. All this makes this lens a potential one stop shop for all your wildlife/nature needs. In our case, this lens allowed us to replace a traditional 2/3″ broadcast camera in favor of a camera with a more cinematic s35 sensor, namely the Sony FS7. In 16:9 mode a 23,087mm x 12,970mm (26,481mm image circle) sensor area needed to be covered which isn’t a problem for the 31,4mm image circle produced by the Canon 50-1000mm lens. Canon 50-1000mm Cine Servo Lens For our production in beautiful Andalusia in southern Spain, we deployed several Sony FS7 Mark II cameras, all equipped with prime...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 30 January, 2019