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Andrew, I really want to see your Cooke lenses on the a7s!!

Andrew, I really want to see your Cooke lenses on the a7s!!

Undoubtably the helios 44-2 is the best lens on the iscorama 36 when used on aps-c.
for full frame, i have found the zeiss sonnar 85mmf2.8 is very well matched and is incredibly sharp.  the olympus 85mmf2 is a stop faster, but even at 2.8 cannot match the sonnar for sharpness, and at f2.8 has a horrible ninja star aperture shape which looks nasty on the bokeh when mated with the oval deformation, however I very much love the wide open f2 aperture for shots requiring selective focus where sharpness over the entire frame is not required.  
 
i really want to see the rama on full frame with the sonnar 135mmf2.8.  I predict great things.
 
funny thing is, the whole reason DSO was started was to make a lo-fi lens to get the Iscorama looking more like a smaller more humble 8mm anamorphic look.  The exact opposite of the lenses I list above, which exhibit very little of their own character to the image.  - even a standard helios 44 (from the early 80's, with more modern coatings) is very clean if the aperture is tweeked closed by half a stop.
 
based on the success of a marriage between the iscorama and a helios 44, it prompts my thinking into finding longer focal lengths based on the same optical arrangement as the helios 44.  (a simple double gauss design).  an early 80mm planar for medium format could be an ideal choice, though the pentagonal aperture might not be to everyone's taste - particularly in oval form.  

36mpx full frame still from the Sony A7R with a sonnar 85mm and Iscorama 36:-
 
http://www.dropbox.com/s/fz1paa2uj1w5avo/A7R_Sonnar85mm_Iscorama36_f11.tif
 
The Iscorama is optically clear.  Clearer than air.  It's like nothing was put in front of the taking lens.  Unreal.
 
 
it would be really cool if we built up a database of high quality tif's of anamorphic setups for reference.  

It's quite amusing looking at the different planets of filmmaking. Philip Bloom is saying raw is nice but "not for the 99.9% of us". How about the 1D C is that for the 99% of us running around with $15,000 to spare?

@enny: This video compares the BMCC with 5D3 H.264 - not the Pocket with 5D3 RAW.

Still have mine in the back of the closet...

No just buy the GH4 K instead!

some samples from the 20-120mm
http://tferradans.com/blog/?p=5354

I like it, it's a "feel good" song.

It's all good Denko. Hopefully you will have one of these beauties in your hands soon enough.

Before you do, here's the footage shot from this lens 

Seems like it's sold, sorry guys.

are you trolling denko? What's your problem? If it's too rich for your blood, go buy a sankor but your sarcasm is unwanted here.
 
EDIT: I said "I see these going for $4500- $7000 on ebay". Why should I sell it for any less? I don't even want to let this go but if I got an offer that's tempting enough, than I will sell it to fund my gear otherwise I will NEVER let it go.
 
ebay example 1: sold
 
ebay example 2: sold