Tito Ferradans

That is how it works unfortunately lol

Get a mattebox that can take them, cutting them down would be a shame, diopters especially. Some folks really struggle to get diopters big enough to get the job done without vignetting. 

Mine came in this morning. Serial number #05. I have been couped up in the office all day working on an edit, but even in some quick shots of my coworkers, I am blown away by what I am seeing. This lens is quite unlike anything else I have ever used. I am not going to say too much right now, but there is so much possibility here...
 
I hope to post some footage this weekend.

It's a height-adjustable baseplate (readily available on eBay) with the baseplate removed. I bought a drill bit that is a hair wider than the girth of the dovetail screws and then drilled two holes in it and the screws go right through. It works pretty well.

Im going to have a go at making one of these !
thanks for the tips tferradans

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

Thanks a lot, guys!
 
I couldn't find any JB Weld here in Brazil, so decided to go with the 52-67mm step up ring. My bayonet had a little lock inside, so I had to carve up a level for it to fit in and then screw it all the way. On the first attempt, it didn't fit at all, then, i destroyed just a bit of the ring, and it almost worked, but the aligning mechanism became too hard. I got back to the ring, took off a nice aluminum chunk and voilá! Perfect.

I want one of these things!