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Alright so, Rob, the Blackmagic cinema camera, very popular. You pointed out a shortcoming, that I think is important to note. If I'm using the EF mount, is that active, do I have control over the lens? >> You do. And that's a, if you look at a modern piece of canning glass, there's no, aperture ring on it. >> Yeah. >> All of that aperture control happens directly from the camera body, for example, your 5 D mark 2 or 3. You're using that little you know, the aperture control right on the camera body, clicks through the different apertures. >> Now, the, the micro 4 3rds version of this camera, not an active mount? >> It is not. It is completely passive, or as what people call a dumb mount. Now, for reason that we talked about earlier as an advantage for this camera, the MFT version, you can pretty much adapt anything. Nikon, PL, FD whatever it may be, and you can put it on there. But the thing is when I'm using an MFT, a native MFT lens on here, I can't…

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