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Flying Solo Q&A: CANON Lenses On SONY? How Do You Get Candid Portraits?

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Jared Polin

Visual Arts, Arts

4.4831 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Flying Solo where I take your questions and give them answers. Each week (Thursdays as of now) I post a NEW Flying Solo Video. Be sure to tune in each week.

You can get the Audio Only Podcast of this episode right here on itunes http://bit.ly/rawtalkpodcast or wherever podcasts are available.

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain.

0:04.0

Welcome to Flying Solo.

0:06.0

Jared Polin Froono's Photo.com and welcome back to another Flying Solo.

0:13.0

Look, there's three dots.

0:14.0

Three dots or stars mean I answer three of your questions.

0:18.0

So let's see who it's sponsored by this week. This week it's sponsored

0:21.6

by My Gear Vault Input, Organize and Protect, the best way to know what you have and what it's worth.

0:27.9

Head on over to mygearvault.com right now to download it for free for iOS or Android. First question,

0:35.1

we've got Keenan Woodmancy. Yep, Kenan Woodie here in South Korea.

0:41.4

Been thinking about the A7R3 and using my cannon glass. It's got the 16 to 35, 28, 24 to 70, 28, 70 to 202.8, 70 to 20.8, 50, 1.8.

0:53.4

Holy God, you're loaded. 40 millimeter 2.8 and the 5D Mark 3. Would I lose any functionality on the Sony using my Canon Glass? Thanks. See ya. So this is one of those things that people keep asking about going to Sony. They love being able to adapt their

1:11.7

cannon glass to use on the Sony cameras. Now, you will lose some functionality when it comes to

1:17.2

the autofocus. Now, things like the MetaBones adapter have gotten better and better when each

1:22.4

generation has come out, which is starting to allow you to get better autofocus capabilities using some

1:29.3

the IAF as well. I personally wouldn't want to adapt my lenses from one system to the other

1:36.4

because natively they're going to be much better. I want my Nikon glass on my Nikon cameras.

1:42.1

I want my Sony glass on the Sony cameras and the

1:45.5

Canon glass on the Canon cameras.

1:47.6

Now, if you're going to be doing video and doing that manually focused, then all day long

1:53.0

use the adapter, put that Canon glass on the Sony and it should work perfectly fine there,

1:58.0

and you may even still get some functionality that works well for your

2:01.8

needs when you are doing autofocus for video. But I suspect that at some point, Canon is going

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