First up, love love love the Metabones Speed Booster. With it the BMPCC reminds me most of the Arriflexes I started shooting film on. In some ways I'm glad to have a cinema camera that has autofocus / aperture disabled. Makes me think like I used to.
However - cannot find any information on whether IS via switch on the lens will work with the BMPCC speed booster.
One huge drawback to a very stripped down BMPCC is the sensor size / weight / ergonomics leads to extremely jittery handheld. I thought a perfect combination would then be the Sigma 17-50mm 2.8 - love Sigma's optics but unlike the 18-35mm, this one has an image stabilization with switch on the lens! I thought I'd found a holy grail.
(With a shoulder rig and the Tokina 11-16 with a speedbooster you're so wide that it helps eat up some of the jitters, and this lens fits right in covering next range of focal lengths)
Here's the thing though - I don't think it's working. I don't have a Nikon camera body to test it out. On the BMPCC there seems to be no real discernible affect to having it switched on or off, and I hear no noise whatsoever.
What I can't find on metabones site is how passive their BMPCC Nikon mount Speed Booster is - is no power going to the IS function of the lens perhaps? Or is Sigma's "OS" just not robust enough for video operating?
It's such a beautiful lens I'll keep it, but god if I could find a way to make that work...
(One final aside - if Panasonic made that 14-42mm pancake with functioning IS or even just the 14mm with IS they'd sell a lens to every BMPCC owner out there)
Aaron Stewart-Ahn
However - cannot find any information on whether IS via switch on the lens will work with the BMPCC speed booster.
One huge drawback to a very stripped down BMPCC is the sensor size / weight / ergonomics leads to extremely jittery handheld. I thought a perfect combination would then be the Sigma 17-50mm 2.8 - love Sigma's optics but unlike the 18-35mm, this one has an image stabilization with switch on the lens! I thought I'd found a holy grail.
(With a shoulder rig and the Tokina 11-16 with a speedbooster you're so wide that it helps eat up some of the jitters, and this lens fits right in covering next range of focal lengths)
Here's the thing though - I don't think it's working. I don't have a Nikon camera body to test it out. On the BMPCC there seems to be no real discernible affect to having it switched on or off, and I hear no noise whatsoever.
What I can't find on metabones site is how passive their BMPCC Nikon mount Speed Booster is - is no power going to the IS function of the lens perhaps? Or is Sigma's "OS" just not robust enough for video operating?
It's such a beautiful lens I'll keep it, but god if I could find a way to make that work...
(One final aside - if Panasonic made that 14-42mm pancake with functioning IS or even just the 14mm with IS they'd sell a lens to every BMPCC owner out there)
Aaron Stewart-Ahn
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