Expand Full-Frame Filmmaking With This Sony A-Mount Adapter | No Film School

Sony has introduced the LA-EA5, a full-frame A-mount lens adapter that allows filmmakers to pair E-mount cameras with A-mount lenses.

According to Sony, the adapter is fully compatible with the autofocus and high-speed shooting of Sony's E-mount cameras, which includes the SSM (Super Sonic Wave Motor) and SAM (Smooth Autofocus Motor), or A-mount lenses that do not have internal focus motors.

Additionally, there's support for focal plane phase-detection and wide-area focal phase-detection AF, but this is only in stills mode. Video modes do not support it presently. However, expect the adapter to provide real-time eye AF for both humans and animals as well as real-time tracking and AF/AE for SSM/SAM lenses in both stills and video mode. Cameras including the a7 III, a7R III, a6100, a9 II, and the new a7S III, among others, will support focal plane phase-detection AF.

Sony designed the adapter to be as compact as possible, so don't expect too much length added to the configuration. The adapter can also be used with a vertical grip attached to the camera body.

The LA-EA5 will be available in October 2020 for around $250 USD and $330 CAD.

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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