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Shooting with an active adapter and passive adapter

Shooting with an active adapter and passive adapter

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Shooting with an active adapter and passive adapter

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- Rob, you mentioned the ability to actually control. On the back of a lens, there's often connections here. Metal connections that are looking to connect to the camera to pass important information about the lens as well as control the lens. And if those connections aren't made you need manual controls. Now, this Rokinon, it doesn't even have those connections 'cause it's entirely a manual lens. On the other hand, this particular one that I have here, from Olympus, is sort of the best of both. If I connect this to a camera like an Olympus or a Panasonic, those active connections will connect. But, if I put it on something like the Blackmagic and it couldn't see it, I could actually pop that off and go into manual control, in this case, at least for focus. But some systems will take that control, some won't. It really depends on the camera. Now this one has an active Micro Four Thirds Mount, but the big brother of this does not, correct? - That's correct, the original cinema camera…

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