Re: Premiere Pro EX-1

[Steve Connor] "Well if you put a long lens on an EX3 then you will be able to achieve that look without a Letus adapter that's why I'm going to be buying one!"

Hi Steve,

You can actually get really nice short DOF shots with the EX1 at the long end of the stock lens when close up and this will be enhanced for $1,000 with the Schneider 1.6X and hopefully later a 2X. But, as others have noted, this requires a very specific set of shot rquirements and is no sub for the adaptors. The beauty of the Letus type adaptors is reducing that set of requirements so as that very short DOF can be acheived in most situations. In my mind the coolest feature they allow is the use of Tilt / Shift lenses on a large (creatively imposed) "film size".

These adaptors are still the key for those shots, the size of the gadget pretty well mandates tripod use (thus eliminating the benefit of the "semi shoulder" mount for that type of shooting), there is no image quality improvement. For that style of shooting I would think EX1, Letus, great monitor. Unless you need Genlock or Timecode you will add nothing that I can see by going EX3. Caveat: that really cool frame rate dial.