Lucian

 

The $300,000 for limited theatrical (less than 50 screens at its highest) with no real P+A budget or conventional marketing is rather outstanding (takes $30M to market a film conventionally, according to Soderberg's revelation).  You aren't even looking at the available information to form an educated guess about what's going on here so your statements are exactly the opposite of "educated".   

Actually it can cost a lot more than $30M to market a film. With animated films the budget for marketing is usually similar to budget to make the film, 100-150M.

Hats off to this guy for doing it his own way, esp with a GH2

I have only used LA7200 and a Kowa B&H, but the Kowa certainly is sharp, the dual focus does slow you down a lot though and increase the rate of error (for me at least). I'd love to switch from the Kowa to isco 36 if it weren't for the $$$ as I'm not really a fan of flares in general and the 2x is a bit too wide for my tastes. Obviously you can crop but then you are losing quality. There is actually a cool article somewhere on eoshd comparing the Kowa to Isco for close focus.

is that a pre 36?

Amazing. I really hope this gets gets refined and made available. How would the Kowa measure

against an iscorama once the dual focus issue is negated?

True I forgot about century optics,  but the LA7200 is pretty natty around the edges and good luck finding a lomo diopter to even make it usable.

Too bad it can only hold tiny cameras

If you must have rack focus your only option is an  iscorama (or higher). Better up your price range! Not sure what the single focus models are going for now but definitely in excess of 3k.

If you can live with out rack focus the Kowa is on par with iscorama in most other aspects, sometimes even better.

They are the last bargain of the anamorphic world at about 1k. Not sure what you are planning to use it for, i use

mine for narrative film and haven't really missed rack focus.

Good luck!

Video wont play for me but the G6 images look better to my eye. less noise in the mids in the top pic.

You should try against the intravenous II hack, that is the highest quality of the hack settings I've tried so far.

Casper  looks like you need another clamp with a thread on the front. Redstan and vidatlantic both make them.

Thanks rich, on your advice I went and bought a 0.9 hex key and tightened the teeny screws and voila.

Cheers

Hi, my helios 44-2 lens suddenly started spinning inside the foto diox m42 to m4/3 adapter I

use to mount it to my gh2, it currently wont tighten snug, or spin off. Driving me nuts.

anyone know what causes this or what I can do to get it off?

Thanks.

Good job then, my footage looks like ass if go hand held :)

very cool. Did you stabilize in post? looks not too shaky for handheld!

That is super lucky, well done!

I got my Tokina just a few days ago for $120. http://www.ebay.de/itm/171032206398?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_500wt_1413

Guess I was lucky!

Yes after some more research it seems that it is indeed beneficial to make sure you are working in 32bit color space even

if the footage was originally 8bit. In addition it seems some folks are uprezing to 4k to apply sharpening and grain.

Cheers

Wow I need one of these but $475 for a diopter seems too steep. Is that the going rate for a tokina?

I'm currently using an old tamron 0.5 with a generic set of +1 +2 +4. In practice the focus range is

so shallow, a 0.4 or 0.3 would give a bit more breathing room.

Tokina diopter in aus http://bit.ly/151P0Hl

eBay shared link

I see, well that answers my question, thanks :)

Hey Andrew, I believe the uncompressing is not aimed at reclaiming lost data, rather opening up

a higher color bit depth to give the highest possible color space for grading. This may be a redundant

step with hacked gh2s, I don't know.. thats why I was curious if people were using this as part of their

grading workflow.

Cheers

Does anyone do this as part of their grading workflow?  Someone mentioned to me they do it

with their dslr footage so as to work in the best possible color space for manipulation. I'm totally

unfamiliar with this concept, if anyone can elaborate I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Tony, I'm after decent achromat for use with my kowa, thought you were sold out, i'll PM you.

Awesome setup. Is that support customized?

Hi,

I have a kowa B&H in use with my helios and gh2. It's pretty heavy, do you 

think i need to buy a support setup or put it on rails? will it damage the lenses

or body without?

Thanks!

Thanks Tony, but I believe chuck would approve of blood red. Tis the colour of justice.

back clamp is 62mm filter thread

 

front filter is 72mm 

looks very nice set up i would send it back the color is a little gay.

 

when buying film gear always ask yourself 

what would chuck norris buy 

what color would he feel comfortable and manly with :)

I hope you left the seller good feedback? It is a superb lens, especially with the inclusion of the Redstan components. 

Lol, I will once I test the lens is working okay. I assume you are the seller ? I bought from someone in Aus.

I am actually from Australia myself, I just live in LA for work!

Great, thanks tferradans, I did indeed buy the russian lenses. Brucker, The lens cap on the back end has no labeling unfortunately :)

Thanks again guys!