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Spoke to B&H product specialist today and he told me ALL Micro-Four Third lenses are compatible with the MBPCC.

Didn't care if the mount was active or passive. All lenses will work.

Now, I am totally new at this. Is he right?

And yes, that was my dumb question of the day.

Thanks for your help guys.

Max Normandin wrote:Spoke to B&H product specialist today and he told me ALL Micro-Four Third lenses are compatible with the MBPCC.

Didn't care if the mount was active or passive. All lenses will work.

Now, I am totally new at this. Is he right?

And yes, that was my dumb question of the day.

Thanks for your help guys.

the Pocket camera's mount is active. I guess that make sense to you.

Yeah dude it does.

So all Micro Four Third Lenses will work on the BMPCC??

Including this one:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Nt ... av-Search=

Yes it should. But why do you want a 60mm macro? This would work out to almost a 180mm lens on the BMPCC! Might give you a "long lens" look, but be careful, you will need a good tripod to hold it steady. Denny

All MFT-lenses will "work", but that doesn't mean that you get all functionality you would get when attached to a panasonic/olympus MFT-body, e.g. you won't get the image rectification features or full, continuos autofocus.

Mac Jaeger wrote:All MFT-lenses will "work", but that doesn't mean that you get all functionality you would get when attached to a panasonic/olympus MFT-body, e.g. you won't get the image rectification features or full, continuos autofocus.

Absolutely. BMPCC has no real autofocus.

I've seen you post some interesting stuff many times here Mac. Do you have any good suggestions for lenses?

For instance, the 4 lenses I'm seriously considering right now are:

*SLR Magic Hyperprime Cine 12mm T1.6
*Voigtlander Nokton 17.5mm f/0.95
*Sigma 30mm f/2.8 DN lens
* Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6

The first two on your list are excellent, John has posted examples from them, and I have used them both on the Panasonic AF100, plan on using them also on my BMPCC. I have not used the 30mm, I have the Ziess 25mm ZF instead. However after using the great primes you have listed, you are going to find the Panasonic Zoom not so good. I had this lens with the AF100, and found the variable f/stop a pain, unless you shoot everything at 5.6. I got the Panasonic Leica D 4/3 zoom instead, f2.8-3.5 was a better option. The Olympus 2.0 14-35 zoom is better yet and Sigma is coming out with a 1.7 zoom in similar range. Food for thought. Denny

With lenses it's a little bit like restaurants: people have different taste, and can afford different prices. If money isn't that tight, the SLR Magic and the Voigtlander are beautifull lenses, but you should also plan on adding a good set of ND and IRCut filters.

But really, you should wait for your camera to arrive, then take it and try the lenses before you spend high. Also think about where and what you are going to be filming. How wide do you need to go? How much light will usually be available? Shooting documentary style has uniquely different needs than narrative work where you control the set. There are situations when a cheap, stealthy zoom lens is of more use than a suitcase full of well selected primes; but if you have time and means to pre-plan your shots and arrange the light, you will get more fun out of the fast primes.

Mac Jaeger wrote:With lenses it's a little bit like restaurants: people have different taste, and can afford different prices. If money isn't that tight, the SLR Magic and the Voigtlander are beautifull lenses, but you should also plan on adding a good set of ND and IRCut filters.

But really, you should wait for your camera to arrive, then take it and try the lenses before you spend high. Also think about where and what you are going to be filming. How wide do you need to go? How much light will usually be available? Shooting documentary style has uniquely different needs than narrative work where you control the set. There are situations when a cheap, stealthy zoom lens is of more use than a suitcase full of well selected primes; but if you have time and means to pre-plan your shots and arrange the light, you will get more fun out of the fast primes.

Thanks guys.

Mac, could you suggest a good set of ND filters that will fit on the lenses mentioned above? Plus, I assume all the lenses need to share the same diameter for the filters to work on them respectively?

Max Normandin wrote:Mac, could you suggest a good set of ND filters that will fit on the lenses mentioned above? Plus, I assume all the lenses need to share the same diameter for the filters to work on them respectively?

Either your lenses share the same filter thread, or you could use step-up-rings. I won't recommend any filters until i had the Pocket in my hands, and once it arrives my advise will be very biased: i've got a set of ND filters from Heliopan, and i hope i won't need to buy more than this.