As far as port selection they are identical and they are just about the same size physically, the EF mount area for the 6k is just a bit longer.īoth cameras are amazing value for the price and you get access to the paid version of Davinci Resolve, which I highly recommend.

You can crop as well as downscale the 6k image to 4k and reduce digital noise which is a nice option. If you already have EF access the 6k is great and you don't have to worry about losing image quality by using a speedbooster. Now that being said the 6k has less of a crop factor which is nice (about 1.85 on the 4k, about 1.58 on the 6k if I recall). I didn't think of these things when I bought my 6k. The 6k does not have 4k blackmagic RAW, you can only shoot 4k in prores currently on it. Adapting vintage lenses such as Canon FD to EF is a huge pain due to the flange distance of the EF mount by nature.

Consider this for example:Īn anamorphic lens for EF would cost about 10x more. IME if you can’t afford a set of Contax primes then look at Nikon.The 4k has a number of high end lenses at an affordable price. Fdn have quite poor mechanical integrity esp now they are very old as many of the plastic components have not aged or worn well so focus ring slop and backlash is common.lastly when adapting to M43 the low micro contrast and rather marginal resolution of some models really doesn’t play well with high pixel density small sensors although for the moiré prone P4k this may be an advantage…. Contax Zeiss along with Leica R have the best mechanical integrity and smoothest focus action of all the legacy SLR lenses which makes them especially suitable for filming. FD lenses generally have low micro contrast which makes them useful to compare with Contax Zeiss which have a modern high micro contrast look to them. IMO unless you have the special L version FD lenses the later is not worth doing. You either use an image degrading adapter with an optical element or pay for someone to modify the lens.

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