Canon 18-80mm T4.4 Lens - Hands on

Canon have been good enough to give us some hands on time with the new 18-80mm T4.4 cinema lens. A perfect balance of price and performance, offering owner operators a general all purpose lens designed for 4K video production.

This video was filmed using:
Main Camera - Canon C300mk2
Lens - Sigma 18-35mm f1.8
Audio - Sennheiser AVX-ME2 Set
Teleprompter - Datavideo TP-300
Key Light - Lishaui Edge 2400
Back Light - Lishaui Edge 518

[markpercivalconsulting]

Interesting initial view. Still working in HD but looking at the strategy for the next few years 4K is squarely there. This review clearly puts this lens into the upgrade frame although I am used to working with rather faster still lenses so would need to try T4.4 out over a number of projects before I am convinced. Keep them coming. Mark

[wwsvs]

You said FS7! Will the servo zoom work with the FS7??? This would be a huge market for Canon to support as they used to do for Sony's industrial and broadcast cameras.

[simongentry]

i really thought you were going to say at 1:11 'this is a lens designed to be used without... a camera' :) great review. ty for sharing.

[twanfrancois]

Hey Carl, I'm looking to purchase the new Canon c200 and I'm in need of good cine zooms, however, I'm not looking at the more pricey options. Which do you think will be a better set of lenses, the new Sigma 18-35 and 50-100 t2 cine zooms or Canon's 18-80 and 70-200 t4.4.

[kadragepictures]

Could you see a big difference in term of optical performance between a stills lens and the CN-E 18-80? I use the 24-105 from Canon on my C200 and this video makes me rethink if I should upgrade it to the 18-80!

[THEAETHERMARTIAN]

You left out the BLACKMAGIC URSA MINI 4.6K PRO.  Is it fully compatible with the BMURSA MINI?  I just purchased the CANON COMPACT SERVO 70-200mm lens, and I'm prayin' that a firmware update will be all that is needed to utilize all the features of this incredible CANON Compact Servo.  Thank you for your video

[mustafaawwad]

Appreciate your effort. Does work on eos DSLR cameras?

[kmfzsyy]

can I use this lens with c100 mkII in auto iris mode?

[RasulGitinaev]

Can use this lens with Mark III or 6D?

[gossipopithecus]

Can you recommend cine lenses for Panasonic GH5 please. I'm new to cinematography. Thanks!

[JamesWoodNarrator]

will this lens play nice with the C100 Mark II

[AlexDerrick_DP]

Thanks for sharing Carl! Cool lens but maybe Canon is still out of step with what Indi shooters really need.
The focal length covers everything an indi-film maker needs in one lens, but if only it would have been a little faster (t2.8-t3.2 range) and image stabilization this would have been a great investment!
Looking forward to seeing optical how she renders skin tones, high contrast scenes, etc..
Cheers!

[Crackingproductions]

Needs a Metabones to hook up to an FS7? Guess that will make it even slower :-( It wont work with a Speedbooster will it as its not full frame? Is it enough of an improvement to justify a spend over utterly annoying non parfocal, non fixed aparture (loses 3 stops!) F2.8 24-70 L on the speedbooster??? Hmmm!