View Full Version : Advice for a good DOF lens with live Auto Focus?


Danny Winn
September 8th, 2013, 11:57 AM
Because I shoot myself a lot in my commercials I need a good lens capable of great DOF that also has live auto focus to focus on me. My Canon 24/70 is great but will only allow Manual focus with this camera and adapeter. Anybody have a good lens suggestion that would do the trick while allowing Live Auto focus?

Thanks much!

Bill Pryor
September 8th, 2013, 12:12 PM
By great depth of field do you mean more or less DOF? If more, just stop down. If you want really shallow, you need a lens that opens to at least a 2.8, but if your background is really close, like a small office, you'd probably want an f1.4. That means prime lenses, mostly, but Sigma recently announced a superfast f1.8 zoom. I don't know of any other zoom out there that's wider than a 2.8.
I've never used any auto focus with the FS100. I don't know if it will do that with any lens. If it does, it's probably going to be with one of the Sony lenses, but again I don't know for sure.