Real Cine Lenses
No matter how you capture your images, the image you get depends on the lenses and filters you use. Specific lenses have specific depths of field and allow specific creative effects.
With experience, cinematographers come to play their equipment like instruments. They can use focus like orchestra conductors, leading the eye from point to point within a scene for dramatic (or comic) effect.
This creative control is generally lost in HD systems, whose 2/3" format lenses tend to put everything in a frame in focus. While some lenses do exist that allow more control of focus in HD systems, they're not the lenses most cinematographers have used for their entire careers.
That's why DALSA designed their 4K cameras with a PL mount—to allow cinematographers to "focus" on cinematography while leveraging their experience (and in some cases, substantial financial investment) in existing lenses. Our large, film-sized sensor makes this possible. You can use the lenses you already trust to get the effects you expect.
