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Originally Posted by bm bradley
this kills what you have in mind as far as focus and movemet:
'utilize an array of low-cost, widely-available still camera lenses as well as film-style lenses with fixed focal lengths, prime lenses, and zoom lenses.'
the issue is dslr lenses don't have the servos needed to track focus for video... and I know this because..... spent a few hours down at the vendor that sells these as well as other cameras to cinnimatographers...
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I don't know if what you call track focus is the same as auto focus, but the AF100 does have auto-focus in combination with Limux lenses that have a built in focus motor for example the 14-140mm zoom and the 12mm and 20mm pancakes. I only use it as push focus though so don't know how it performs in continiously auto-focus but you can set the focus area on your LCD screen and I slighty remember that the AF100 has face focus tracking but I never used this so I'm not sure.
Basically the AF100 is a great cam, apart from its image. The biggest problem is the electronic noise, you have to put sharpness back to -7 and crush your blacks to get rid of that. That's another reason for me to chose for the GH2, there is much less noise even if the blacks aren't hitting zero.