Great lenses for the Fs7

Hi Guys,
I have been having this dilemma bout what lenses to use with my Fs7. I like the Metabones Speedbooster but I HATE the lag on the Iris when using Canon EF L lenses. I have a full set of Canon Cine Prime lenses for when I'm shooting work that has a budget to use them but this always leaves me having to use zoom lenses with an internal Iris on other shoots.
So I have been looking around for a set of lenses that won't break the bank with an external Iris, manual zoom and manual focus. The Sony 28-135 SELPH lens is an F4 lens and on the Fs7 is more like a 42-200mm so good for some work but not for other work, certainly not for handheld shooting. But I don't like the way the zoom works in manual mode and F4 isn't that fast really.
So I found this chap based in Scotland called the Lens Doctor. His website is www.thelensdoctor.co.uk and what he does is he takes Canon FD lenses and declicks the iris and then removes the FD mount and adds an EF mount! Fantastic! so now with my Metabones Speedbooster I can have a 35-105mm F3.5 lens that has an iris of F2! Or a 70-210 F4 which has an iris of F2.8! I also have a 20-35mm F3.5 that is like an F2 and great for handheld.
Now at this point I must point out to you that these lenses are NOT cine lenses they are adapted stills lenses so they don't have 300 degree barrel turns or .8 pinch teeth but I was just at Canon UK's headquarters in Surrey and I was able to use their lens projector and the lens engineer there said that they are more than capable of resolving a 4k image and that they where very sharp across the whole frame. I really like these lenses as you can tell. They are perfect for all that corporate, news and broadcast work that just won't pay for a Canon CN7 or Arri Alura. These aren't 'vintage' lenses and the glass in them is the same glass as you'd find in Canon EF L (MK1) lenses. If you have some Canon FD glass you can even send it to him and he'll declick it add what he calls a FVA to make the Iris smooth and then fit the EF mount!
I'm just waiting on a Canon FD 28-200 from him at the moment, which could turn out to be the perfect lens!
Cheers
Mark

Sounds like an interesting possibilty this FD-EF conversion job, I may well look into it. Would definitely be keen to see some real-world footage shot with your Vivitar zoom once you get it back from Scotland. As you mentioned your annoyance with the slow rate of adjustment of an electronic iris through the speedbooster, I thought I'd share a useful configuration tweak that I discovered the other day when trying to address similar frustration. Long story short, I've customised one of the assignable handgrip buttons (I chose 6, for middle finger activation) to be "Push Auto Iris". This way, if I need to do a rapid (and therefore probably significant/large) iris shift that would take a lot of wheel-scrolling, I just briefly press the assigned button, engaging auto-iris. The iris adjusts to the 'correct' exposure, and I then release the button and fine tune a stop or so either way if needed. It's been working pretty well for me - give it a go if/when you're stuck using an electro-iris EF lens. Cheers, jason

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