Rudolf

Here is another Promo we recently shot with a set of Kowas (40, 50, 75, 100mm) that I though some people might like to see. Any thoughts or feedback welcome. 
 
 
 
 

Hey Cosimo, you should definitely get into gear and make music again! Great stuff!!!
Just listening to "For Marcel"... beautiful -  reminds me when I've been on a Kraftwerk concert woohoo

I had the Optex a couple of years ago and I recall it has to be stopped down to get sharp like all focus through adapters. Unfortunately it will still not become that sharp even at f5.6. But as GH4 is so sharp this is not so bad maybe? The Tamron diopter is quite good. Nearly as good as the 0.5 Tokina.

Hi Tito, I just watched Zona S. SP. and I am very impressed! Great job. Really, realy well done. I have to say you definitely are the right man to own those fine lenses as it is much better to make good films than boring flaretests and so on 
Unfortunately I cannot provide you with any good resources regarding the Iscorama stuff. I know some filmmakers who have decades of experience with Iscos. One in particular knows some engineers from Isco and had a quite close relationship I think. He owns all the good stuff...
Keep up the great work! Hope you have a nice time in Vancouver (heard it is a great city)
 

Hi Tito, I just watched Zona S. SP. and I am very impressed! Great job. Really, realy well done. I have to say you definitely are the right man to own those fine lenses as it is much better to make good films than boring flaretests and so on 
Unfortunately I cannot provide you with any good resources regarding the Iscorama stuff. I know some filmmakers who have decades of experience with Iscos. One in particular knows some engineers from Isco and had a quite close relationship I think. He owns all the good stuff...
Keep up the great work! Hope you have a nice time in Vancouver (heard it is a great city)
 

I had the Optex a couple of years ago and I recall it has to be stopped down to get sharp like all focus through adapters. Unfortunately it will still not become that sharp even at f5.6. But as GH4 is so sharp this is not so bad maybe? The Tamron diopter is quite good. Nearly as good as the 0.5 Tokina.

Those are mine when I used to be a musician, I did it long time ago, never went anywhere though

this 6 years ago:

and another

 

 
 

Hello Izhar, that is a wonderful video. I really like it very much. Great with your music - kudos!!! The image of the GH4 is great. I often read it is not 'cinematic' (whatever this means?) but a lot of your shot look like film (depends on the stock though - maybe old Revue/Agfa). GREAT! I will definately upgrade from my GH3. You are a strong man... carrying around the Rectimascope-monster. I did not know it would work that good. I use one for projection which works great though. Thanks for making my decision against NX1 for GH4 easy

Hello Izhar, that is a wonderful video. I really like it very much. Great with your music - kudos!!! The image of the GH4 is great. I often read it is not 'cinematic' (whatever this means?) but a lot of your shot look like film (depends on the stock though - maybe old Revue/Agfa). GREAT! I will definately upgrade from my GH3. You are a strong man... carrying around the Rectimascope-monster. I did not know it would work that good. I use one for projection which works great though. Thanks for making my decision against NX1 for GH4 easy

The storm hit Tel Aviv on the weekend. The tension was high.
Shot with Panasonic GH4, 4K photo mode (3:2), Rectimascop 48/2X anamorphic lens, Helios 44-2 taking lens.
Music by me.
Edited with FCPX, graded with FilmConvert.
 

Thank you very much for your effort. Very intresting read and enjoyed it a lot.
I tried to write a comment and some additions but that did not work for some reason. Second try: Maybe Ernst Abbe deserves a mention as founder of the patented anamorphic lenssystem. (He also invented the triplet later called "Cooke triplet") Therefor it is maybe a little bit harsh to say Isco have stolen a russian formular. Isco Göttingen were already in the anamorphic business since the late 1950's. Isco Göttingens concept with the Iscorrama being able to split depends on the fact that the anamorphot has to be used for projetction (was not a discovery by users). Therefore the Iscostat was used (available for all sizes). The Iscorama 36, 42, 54 were targeted at the Super-8 enthusiast. They had also cooperations with Bauer and Beaulieu resulting in the Cingegon (taking lens was a Schneider Kreuznach Macro Cinegon 10mm 1.8). Isco Göttingen put a big effort to make their lenses popular: In 1979 they offered a journey to Israel accompanied by anamorphic experts and lending out Iscoramas to the interested film enthusiast. Unfortunately all this did not prevent Isco from breakup.
Maybe the Isco's achromatic diopters especially built for the Iscoramas are worth mentioning too ?
Again thank you very much for your work!!! Very inspiring. I wish I could afford more stuff like Lomos and 5D III (I am still on GH3 and mostly Super 8)
Tonight I am looking forward to wathch Zona S. SP.

One chapter at a time, I'm translating to english my graduation work which is 90% focused on anamorphics. I hope it brings some light onto common questions as well as works as a good follow-up read after the original EOSHD Anamorphic's Shooter Guide.
I'll keep updating the links to each chapter on this post, please feel free to comment and correct me along the way. There are 22 chapters/topics and roughly a hundred pages.
WHO AM I AND WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7166
 INTRODUCTIONhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7174 LENS RESEARCHhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7195 a ) FOCUS THROUGH (1.33x)http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7204b ) ISCORAMAS (1.5x)http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7225c ) DOUBLE FOCUS (2x)http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7235d ) CINE LENSES (2x)http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7260e ) DAMAGE AND SERVICINGhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7278f ) DIOPTERS AND CLOSE UPShttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7282g ) LENS-YCLOPEDIAhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7280h ) FAKING THE LOOKhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7283 MAGICLANTERN RAWhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7304 a ) CUSTOM CROPMARKShttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7305 ZONA SSPhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7310 a ) LOMO: EPISODE 01http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7311b ) ISCORAMAS: EPISODE 02http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7317 THE PROCESShttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7318 a ) CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7319b ) ON SET PREVIEW
http://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7320c ) WORKFLOW CONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHY

Got the final chapters done, but can't edit the main post! Are we gonna be able to edit stuff again, or is this a permanent change?
c ) WORKFLOWhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7370 CONCLUSIONhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7371BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp://www.tferradans.com/blog/?p=7372 *weirdly enough, I was able to edit THIS post...

Great fotos and stills! Although I am the worst photographer on the forum (internet?) I dare to post some images
Canon FDn 50mm (plus cheapbooster) and mighty-little-8mm Moeller

Canon FDn 28mm and 1968 Exakta Iscorama

Schneider Kreuznach Optivaron and  late 70's Iscorama 54 (obvisously not MC)

Great fotos and stills! Although I am the worst photographer on the forum (internet?) I dare to post some images
Canon FDn 50mm (plus cheapbooster) and mighty-little-8mm Moeller

Canon FDn 28mm and 1968 Exakta Iscorama

Schneider Kreuznach Optivaron and  late 70's Iscorama 54 (obvisously not MC)

Great fotos and stills! Although I am the worst photographer on the forum (internet?) I dare to post some images
Canon FDn 50mm (plus cheapbooster) and mighty-little-8mm Moeller

Canon FDn 28mm and 1968 Exakta Iscorama

Schneider Kreuznach Optivaron and  late 70's Iscorama 54 (obvisously not MC)

Great fotos and stills! Although I am the worst photographer on the forum (internet?) I dare to post some images
Canon FDn 50mm (plus cheapbooster) and mighty-little-8mm Moeller

Canon FDn 28mm and 1968 Exakta Iscorama

Schneider Kreuznach Optivaron and  late 70's Iscorama 54 (obvisously not MC)

​That's totally overkill doing it to ProRes 4444.
Use a 1 pass encoding to ProRes LT!

Focus Module with Isco Animex s8/2x, olympus OM 100mm @ f4

Here are stills from my upcoming short film "Dueling Alphas".  Shot with GH4 4K (firmware 1.0) with Iscorama 36.

We can get a little bit bogged down with the tech side of stuff, sometimes its nice to get back to what we are all about.... images!
So for a bit of fun I propose a thread of just images using models. (Anamorphic of course) Feel free to post your own stuff here, it would be nice to see different styles and techniques. Have a dig through your drives, or grab your camera and see what you can come up with.
Here's one to get us started.
 

Canon 5d markii Lomo Squarefront 85mm.

Canon 5d Mark ii Lomo Squarefront with Lomo 1m diopter.
I like this one, some real anamorphic charater.

Definitely underrated. Not a person, nor living, but a model nonetheless.