Lucian

What are you shooting it with? Would help to figure out the correct focal length and max aperture. For FF I would go with an old Nikkor S 55 F1.2

Whoops, sorrry. I'm moving to Digital Bolex so planning for that, sensor size is similar to bmmpc, slightly smaller. The nikorr would be too long I think unless they make a wider version.  

I did Rich's close focus mod to my 36 and can focus to about 3.5ft (maybe its 3.7?). I'm guessing it's the same technique as vandiemen, pretty much you remove the stopper so you can spin past the current min focus. It makes the isco into a total beast, with a couple of tokina's it can handle anything.

Mine never comes off my camera, but at the moment the cons outweigh the pros with the van demein mod for me. If

Rich ever makes the more lightweight self installed version without the vignette issues I'd be on it in a heart beat though.

Van Diemen iscorama upgrade: close focus is 3' 7"
This is about 110 cm, am i right?

How does it work? Does he reorder the lens elements?

Hi all,

I'm looking for a very fast lens with vintage character that plays nice with the iscorama and wont break the bank entirely. Has anyone paired any of the following with a 36?  any advice appreciated. 

Voightlander 25 0.95 (I've seen the payphone isco+ voight  test posted here, very nice)

switar 26mm 1.1

Thanks!

The weight ends up similar to an isco 54 according to Tony, and probably increases the risk of damage from falling due to the extra weight.

I was interested in having it done for protection and easier follow focus, but $1400 USD is pretty steep (not doubting the value of their work, I just mean for me). The other cons for me are sending it half way round the world and the problems with earlier vignette and long throw.

Rich mentioned he was thinking of making a lighter version, that would not have the same problems, and could be shipped out to the user as a kit for self install!

If there were enough of us to make it worth his while, maybe we could twist his arm!   :PI

I emailed him with no response yet. Hopefully he can make a custom gear for the iscorama with its moevement and tapered body.

Cool, keep us posted. I'll buy one for sure if he can!

I agree, for my last shoot I ended up only using the gh3 for very specific shaded foliage/wide dynamic range shots and 60fps shots. 

That said the gh3 has a much sturdier body and balances on a glidecam much better, but I always end up

reaching for the GH2 as I trust it to give a better image.

Thanks for the reply. I think I follow you, but it might be a little technical for me. Going to have to read it about 10 times :P

I'm curious because Digital Bolex  have been asking what resoloutions/aspect ratios people want included for anamorphic shooting. They are doing a 4:3 mode for 2x anamorphic shooters, and have been very responsive to community requests. It would be amazing to shoot with the iscorama (1.5x) and not have to dick around with crop in post, potentially fudging up your framing.

Hey guys,

can anyone tell me what the ideal shooting aspect ratio and resolutions would be for getting proper scope (2.39:1  and 2.35:1) from a 1.5x adapter?

Thanks in advance.

Rob, I've asked this before and not had much luck. One person mentioned they did get the Edelkrone ff working on it.

Both that and the lanpart are probably more than I'd want to spend though as the need to rack is pretty rare for me.

Keep us posted though if you get a working solution going!

I wish them the best, but they are awfully late to the party. I'd love to try one though.

what are the other options for global shutter and raw in this price range?

bmpcc is lovely but the rolling shutter is pretty bad. Bmpc4k will come out who knows when and will be a pain in the arse to use like all their cameras.

For my uses, I would take 2k raw, global shutter, xlr, ssd etc over the compressed 4k we are going to see being released next from the usual suspects.

I'm hopeful about the d16!

The crank can be programmed to do diff functions. 

I believe follow focus, cheap fixed ap cine lenses, anamorphic adapter and other accessories are coming later.

Probably won't get mine until end of JAN, the first 100 are for the kickstarter backers. Bloom was a backer so we might see a review from him sometime after Christmas.

Yep the new speed booster for the bmpcc looks like a match made in heaven.

Any geniuses out there who can tell me what 25mm on the GH2 would be equivalent to on the Digital Bolex based on the above chart?

I'm buying one. 2k, global shutter, raw, cine ergonomics. xlr, 512gb ssd, progressive leadership, ticks a lot of boxes for me. Only hassle is the sensor size means I'd need super wide lenses. People think the bmpc speedbooster may work on it, they are shipping the first batch this week so hopefully we will find out soon.

Can't wait :)

considering the difference in sensor size, I would have thought you could go substantially lower?

Hey guys,

trying to work out how wide I can go taking lens wise on the digital bolex with the iscorama.

Mine vignettes at around 26mm on the gh2, digital bolex sensor is much smaller (16, s16 and eventually full sensor 4:3 mode).

Anyone have any idea how wide I could go go?

Thanks!

Yup, saw that yesterday. They always start low and will end up high :). 

It won't go for 7k I can tell you that.

Yeah right, well sounds like I might give that one a miss :P or is the film actually good?

Oh yeah, he's awesome.  But check out that kappa movie sometime.  I don't see him anywhere in there.  It has the same non-aesthetic as so much of what's done in Japanese low budget filmmaking.  My only point is it would be terribly misleading if someone were to hear what a wonderful DP he is and by chance pick that film to get a sense of his work.

 Maybe the DP actually was sub-par but try and reconcile the fact that Underwater Love was shot by the same man who does Wong Kar Wai's sublimely beautiful films.  

Christopher Doyle :)

Happy Together is one of my favourites, his cinematography is beautiful.

When buying mine, I dealt with multiple attempted scammers before securing the real deal.

Pretty simple, only use a secure form of payment with buyer protection (paypal). For god sake do not 

wire transfer money to anyone.

Hey eoshd.

 

 

Long time lurker here. I just want to say/share something regarding the comment moderation that is happening in nofilmschool.com. To clarify, I don't mean any hate to nofilmschool; as a matter of fact, I've been tuning in to them for years now.

 

Recently, nofilmschool.com published a post regarding Shane Hurlbut's camera test putting the Alexa against the C500. There were a few users expressing their opinions in a civil manner. Here's the cache. There were also a user who talked about the cinematography of Shane Hurlbut in his recent movies (Need For Speed etc.) compared to his older movies (Terminator, Deadfall etc.). Again, all in a good note. Unfortunately, the comment section was closed soon after that comment was posted.

 

Another asked the reasonning for closing the comment section in a new post by nofilmschool. Their posts were also removed. Here's the cache. Its just weird. I know Andrew had the same issue a while back.

 

Again, no hate for nofilmschool. Its just that as a frequent reader, it amazes me how much they moderate the comments. Healthy conversations should be allowed in my opinion regarding of different opinions. I guess I felt the need to share this with you guys.

 

Thanks.

Considering the comments section at no film school is generally pretty awful and malicious, I was very surprised when they

removed the comments from the shane hurlbut article as soon as people started saying the footage looked cheap. Honestly

I agreed. It looked much worse than many films shot 40 years ago.

1.4x???

Tony is that true? I always stretch to 1.5x on mine and it looks right.

FYI the second one didn't reach asking price of 6.5k  It was best offer accepted.

I've never heard of one going for 7k or even close.

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

The BMPCC adaptor has a large protruding element which might foul a Lumix shutter, however the BMCC adaptor doesn't, and looks like it would physically fit fine.  However as Metabones is not recommending it for the 18x13 M43 sensor I would assume it vignettes pretty badly.  

The BMPCC adaptor might just work on the Digital Bolex too, they are similar sensor sizes and anyone using a Digital Bolex will love a bit of authentic vignette ;)

BMPCC sensor - 12.48 x 7.02

D Bolex sensor - 12.85 x 9.64

I hope it does work on the Digital Bolex. Bmpc without rolling shutter !

As far as consumer monitors capable of decent color correction i think there are only a couple of options, none that fit the <$300.

you will basically be guessing. Dell 2713H  and HP dreamcolor. And in order to make any of these worthwhile you will need a device

to collaborate them, I recommend the colormunki.

If you have a decent plasma TV that will actually be closer for critical color than a $300 monitor. I would use whatever monitor to you have now and save the $300 towards a decent one down the road.

My 2c.  Good luck!