Sebastien Farges

Hi my anamorphic friends !
Here are some new stuff taken with my favorite light and sharp anamorphic combo. Tell me what you think ! Thanks for watching !
 
https://vimeo.com/78594325
 

 
This movie has been shoot a week-end mid october in Bordeaux, and first week-end of november in the countryside. 
I'm glad to have now I think the perfect anamorphic set combination for my baby Hypergonar anamorphic lens. I bought few weeks ago a used Qioptiq C-mount lens, usually used in industry. This lens is very sharp, even at it's fastest aperture (f1.6) and this wide aperture is still usable with the anamorphic on it ! Some of the shot of the movie had been taken at f1.6.
 


The Filick'r album :
flickr.com/photos/43243778@N04/sets/72157636631334626/
 

It was not possible to screw directly the anamorphic lens on the Qioptiq prime lens because the front barrel is turning when you focusing. So I ordered a special machined flat step up ring to attach the two lens. I've unscrewed the ring on the Qioptiq that is maintening the glass, and replace with the special machined flat ring. Then I screwed on it the original small Berthiot clamp that can align the anamorphic lens. Then I put the baby Berthiot hypergonar in it. The combination suits perfectly !
The weight of this anamorphic combo is quite light. The Hypergonar weight is 57 grams, the clamp maybe 20 grams, the Qioptiq is 210 gram, then the two filters (diopter + variable ND) and step up rings maybe 150 grams. So the total is around only 400 grams !
And finally using the OM-D with it's 5 axis stabilization system with an anamorphic combo is very useful !
Olympus om-d e-m5 / 1080p 30
Art4 "light tone" mode
no color correction
qioptiq linosMevis-C c-mount 35mm f1.6
baby hypergonar 1.75x anamorphic lens
tokina close-up 0.5
variable ND filter Cokin Pure Harmony
Xume magnetic filter attachments
music / soundtrack
vangelis / blade runner
 
Here is the first part of this pocket anamorphic set :
vimeo.com/77265744

And here is a movie taken with this lens alone :
vimeo.com/75065010
 
 

http://lenses.zeiss.com/content/dam/Photography/new/pdf/en/cine/master_anamorphic/master_anamorphic_depth_of_field_tables_meter.pdf
 

this looks heavily cc'd while its not! a great find for fans of that vintage film look. and the daughter? looks like she had fun! 
:D

Cool Small Rig Seb :) The video has your typical touch, I like it!

Its not to stop everyone from trying just it would just be nice if people would just stop cutting corners and only going for the superficial reasons for shooting anamorphic. Its not something anyone should jump into, I think its amazing that this method has resurfaced after being a work around to get more detail on the film negative. In doing so we got amazing things like the horizontal flares and oval bokeh. Other things like getting a wide and tele feel in the same lens resulting in a more intimate image to your viewer. Wides often alienate the viewer and anamorphic kinda solves this along with tons of character. 
 
Anyways these are the reasons why slrmagic, letus and this dont really interest me. My thoughts on this set up are yes it looks like the Panasonic adapter, it also sufferes from the terrible edges and awful distortion even at longer focal lengths. The flares look ok but the lens was mounted lopsided so it wasnt very..horizontal. and lastly being a 1.33X I guess is that the bokeh is not very great. For 2k there are plenty of great deals to be had that have more character and better aesthetics.
 
I know they are all a lot more expensive but having an iscorama I may be a bit spoiled. Also having used a wonderful Lomo I just cant see using anything less. its not apples to apples or anything but compare what you are trying to do with the Girl and a gun lens tests of the hawk 74 series lenses. Not saying I want that for 2k but if you can even reproduce 10% of that you would have my attention.

here is the movie done with this set :
 
https://vimeo.com/77265744

merci Yiannis ! 
I had a small f clamp for your lens but it was not very perfect... Maybe you can find with REDSTAN
Don't forget to use diopter !

Merci Seb ! Ta fille est toujours la classe !
Et parce-que mon français sont encore trop mauvais (je déménagè récemment en France, à Aix-en-Pce),
I will continue in english :) ... 
Your baby hypergonar looks 2 times better than the Isco!...
I will really appreciate if you can give me a couple of advices on it, as I'm new to this world.
 
Thanks!
 
By the way, I love your jobs & I follow you everywhere!

Hope the patent will work at 24p...

Nice! The camera stabilisation works really well, I can't do much better than that on a steadicam.

Hello everybody, here is my new anamorphic set ! :)
 
baby Berthiot Hypergonar anamorphic 1.75X lens
Qioptiq Linos MeVis-C 35mm f1.6 C-mount lens
 
I've order a special machined step up flat ring, then unscrew from the C-mount lens the ring that maintains the glass, then replace by the flat ring. I've screwed the original Berthiot small clamp, then screw and aligned the anamorphic. 
This combination of these two lenses seem to be very promising. Sharpness and no vignetting :)
 
Here is the set and two pictures taken with it on my OMD (video is coming soon). Thanks for your attention.
 
 
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43243778@N04/sets/72157636631334626/
 

Hello everybody, here is my new anamorphic set ! :)
 
baby Berthiot Hypergonar anamorphic 1.75X lens
Qioptiq Linos MeVis-C 35mm f1.6 C-mount lens
 
I've order a special machined step up flat ring, then unscrew from the C-mount lens the ring that maintains the glass, then replace by the flat ring. I've screwed the original Berthiot small clamp, then screw and aligned the anamorphic. 
This combination of these two lenses seem to be very promising. Sharpness and no vignetting :)
 
Here is the set and two pictures taken with it on my OMD (video is coming soon). Thanks for your attention.
 
 
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43243778@N04/sets/72157636631334626/
 

Haha well I was hoping to find out if it will work before I buy a set. 50's and 60's Kern Pailard switas are lovely lenses but they aint cheap! Your success is encouraging though. Happy shooting.

Hello everybody, here is my new anamorphic set ! :)
 
baby Berthiot Hypergonar anamorphic 1.75X lens
Qioptiq Linos MeVis-C 35mm f1.6 C-mount lens
 
I've order a special machined step up flat ring, then unscrew from the C-mount lens the ring that maintains the glass, then replace by the flat ring. I've screwed the original Berthiot small clamp, then screw and aligned the anamorphic. 
This combination of these two lenses seem to be very promising. Sharpness and no vignetting :)
 
Here is the set and two pictures taken with it on my OMD (video is coming soon). Thanks for your attention.
 
 
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43243778@N04/sets/72157636631334626/
 

Hello everybody, here is my new anamorphic set ! :)
 
baby Berthiot Hypergonar anamorphic 1.75X lens
Qioptiq Linos MeVis-C 35mm f1.6 C-mount lens
 
I've order a special machined step up flat ring, then unscrew from the C-mount lens the ring that maintains the glass, then replace by the flat ring. I've screwed the original Berthiot small clamp, then screw and aligned the anamorphic. 
This combination of these two lenses seem to be very promising. Sharpness and no vignetting :)
 
Here is the set and two pictures taken with it on my OMD (video is coming soon). Thanks for your attention.
 
 
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43243778@N04/sets/72157636631334626/
 

Today I had a nice chat with a kind lady at ISK-Optik former ISCO-Göttingen.
I was asking for the original adapter ring (39/0.75-49 for my Leitz cinegon). 
She told me she was sorry: they dumped everything of the "old" stuff.
"Yes, sir we dumped the old stock, as we needed the space for new developments"
Well, I was... speechless. I told her in brief about the "Iscorama-hype" and prices.
I even told her about SLR-Magic and the price tag of $1500,-
I could "hear her smiling".
It is unbelievable the ISK-Management has obviously no idea what is happening. 
 
Or could it be that the production of a new Iscorama with similar quality is just 
too expensive?
 
An aquintance who has a friend (a scientist who has even received an Oscar together
with some others) at ISK-Optik told me they are more into developments for the
industry.
 
In my opinion it is more of a missed chance
Reminds my very vague of the magnetic monorail - now in China  :P
 
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https://vimeo.com/73514319
 
I've just had for few days the prototype of the upcoming SLR Magic 17mm T1.6 lens in micro 4/3 mount. This lens reminds me the one from Voigtlander the 17mm f0.95 I test once (vimeo.com/43570385)  
Despite it's a T1.6, the SLR is a very fast lens, and I had to use strong ND filter on it to be able to use it at it's fastest speed at 1/50 shutter speed. This lens is a prototype so I can't show it, but this model looks quite like the 25mm T0.95 from SLR. It has also a no click aperture ring. Most of the shot of the movie are taken at T1.6, and you can see the very good sharpness of the lens, even at its fastest aperture.   SLR Magic told me that : "this is a SLR Magic CINE designation lens and not a HyperPrime lens so it is made for the budget indie filmmaker. It is in the same series as our 35mm T1.4 CINE II lens. Price of the production 17mm T1.6 lens is TBA (to be announced). The SLR Magic CINE 17mm T1.6 will have the same mechanical build as our 35mm T1.4 CINE II lens that repeatable focus. The 35mm T1.4 CINE II lens will be compatible with our upcoming 1.33x Anamorphic adapter but the 17mm T1.6 will not be on the compatible list. Field curvature effects causing softness at extreme when focusing at close focus distance were put into consideration during lens design and edge sharpness should be quite sharp even when wide open. Light falloff during wide open aperture is well controlled."   I have use the OMD E-M5 from Olympus. I've bought recently this camera because I was really impressed by the movie of Andrew Reid, where we can see the proficient internal 5 axis stabilization system.  It was quite hard for me to use this new camera. Two main problems have appeared : 1- I found that the contrast in classic image mode are very strong, the black are too black to my opinion (I've used the Natural mode). Then I decided to change the mode and I've used the Art filter 3 (ton neutre et lumineux, I suppose in english it's "neutral and bright tone") to have less strong blacks. But this mode gives green rendering (and the ND add it too), so I try to color corrected it. That's why you have two mode in this movie, the Art filter 3 is in the countryside and seaside shots. I did light color correction in quite all the clips. 2- The second problem is the using of ND filter on OMD with the stabilization. At the begining of my shooting I was using a variable ND filter from Cokin. The problem is that there is slight vigneting when you are closing it. And this vigneting is moving because of the stabilization. You can see this issue in some of the shot, the traveling with the girl with the yellow bag, for example.Then I decided to use another ND filter, not a variable, the Hoya NDX400. With a constant ND filter, the problem of the "moving vigneting" disappear. But it's less easy to use. Especially with the OMD that has less efficient dynamic range than the GH3. Anyway despite this problems I have discover with my first use of the OMD camera, I'm really impressed by its internal stabilization sytem, for example it allowed me to do these shot from the car in the small roads of north Ireland, with a third part lens such as this SLR Magic 17mm T1.6.  I'm really happy using this lens, it is a good experience and it's useful to have a fast 17mm, especially when you think that 25mm is not enough wide, and 12mm too wide.   Olympus OMD E-M5 SLR Magic 17mm T1.6 (prototype) 1080P 30 "Natural" and "Art 3 bright and neutral" modes Variable Cokin ND filter NDX400 ND filter from Hoya edited on Adobe Premiere CS6 CC on Premiere   Music (mash up) : Midlake "The Courage Of The Other" King Crimson "In The Court Of The Crimson King"  

You already know from my Vimeo comment : really nice image, I wonder when I will have the chance to have one ! :)

COME ON, I have to test one of these ! ;)

I'll come there soon, we stay in touch !
 
Over 40 hours of material were taken in NYC, Some in anamorphic, the others with the two SLR Magic 25mm f0.95 and 12mm.

Nice footage as always, Seb. There is so much nice architecture in France!

It's nice to see your results with the lovely iscorama.  to me a wonderful tool.  the low light anamorphic king.  sharp enough at very fast apertures and no light loss.  When you finally pull the trigger on an iscorama I think you will love the flare factory modifeid helios44 I sent Andrew Reid (optimised to make iscorama a lot more rustic and lower contrast).    

The doublet wins, for my money.  Glad I got one ;)

that is cheating f4...
try it at f1.4 or even 0.95 : )

regardless of what john barlow says a simple locked off tripod test with camera taking lens wide open shows the improvements. of doublet close up over single element.
reduced spot size on a doublet correcting light ray path giving more clarity to the image.
in fact i just tested a +1 kinoptik doublet it destroys the single element angenieux.
chester moore hall invented the doublet in 1740 the design has been copied ever since if it was not needed or if single element was so good then doublet designs would of died out long ago.
doublets are the high end route.
tiffen and schneider use single element window glass called white water not optical bk7 in the close up they make.
they rely on people stopping down to improve performance.
achromatics require higher end optical glass and quality spec and build.really
stopping a bad optic down will cure most problems opening wide or one stop down from wide open shows the power of a good achromatic doublet design.

optical law transcends vimeo pictures

I visit my brother, niece and sister in law, and I met in Toulouse Olivier, a anamorphic lenses collector. He lent me for this week end one of his Iscorama. It was the first and hope not the last time that I have this lens in my hand. It's working very well, sharp, and usable for closed shots without a diopter.
 
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GH3 AVCHD 1080 50P
natural mode
1080 50P
Iscorama
non MC
1.5X version, apparently more 1.4X, that what I've done on post
Yashica
55mm f2
Contax mount
light craft ND variable filter
Tokina 0.5 diopter
here is a face to face Iscorama / baby Hypergonar :
vimeo.com/61788864