christrad

Samsung nx1
Anamorphic Lens : Kowa for Bell & Howell
Talking lenses : Konica-Hexanon 40mm f/1.8 & Helios 44-M 58mm f/2

Thx Justin! Yes Chateau du Loir is a nice place, enjoy...

Ultimate test of the Konica-Hexanon 40mm f/1.8 with Kowa B/H on the Samsung nx1. I'm pretty happy with it and think it's gonna be my main lens with this combo...

Anamorphic nx1 and Konica 40mm

Samsung nx1, anamorphic lens : Kowa for Bell & Howell, Konica-Hexanon 40mm f/1.8

Anamorphic Samsung NX1 goes wide with Konica 40mm f/1.8 & Kowa for Bell & Howell

On 07/06/2012 at 5:04 PM, tony wilson said:

the baby hypergonar as i describe on flikr shows what a great man chretien the designer was.
it is superior to the  isco 1.5x

it has to do with the focal length of each optic i am sure they are different in hypergonar and in small isco.
also glass materials will be different.
isco probably used 2 of the same glass types only in this model.

baby hypergonar uses different materials that give a more usable result.
you could call it an air spaced achromat.
as stated they will both suffer because of tiny back element.

the isco has nothing to do with moller.
remember these are all companies all using patent systems.
different glass materials are being used in every lens to avoid patent conflict

when you get to the 1970s it becomes much more of a free for all companies are copying and patent cases do not show up much.
apart from whem kowa tried to make a focus lens like the iscorama


my close up doublet does a great job on all of these wacky lens the low magnification power is the key.
if i was selling an anamorphic with the doublet i would keep the doublet because it is so good and flexible.
using a single element close up you are adding more chromatic aberration in.
sometimes in footage i see what appears out of focus is terrible ca and coma.
dp's  in hollywood in the 20s,30s and 40s understood the difference between depth of field,point of focus and bokeh.

when early bausch and lomb cinemascope arrived they where horrified at the mess and poor quality.
chretien sold the concept and the americans believed they could do a better job they did not.
chretiens original lens for the mitchell camera was similar in size to the iscorama 36.
but a square box design.
hollywood made them much bigger.
chretien could control the quality with small optics so less error.

hollywood wanted big

chromatic aberation is optical error and nasty looking.
bokeh is romance and natural.
i have a couple of old hollywood optics one from the 50s and one from the 60s proper camera lens not projection.
and to my horror when i got them one needs f8 the other f8.5 that is why hollywood loved big lights in the 50s

So good to have you back Tony with all your knowldge!

BTW, for those who are new here, Tony is "Redstan" who do the best clamp and also sell awsome diopters for anamorphic.

But mainly he is THE anamorphic encyclodia man! (and a great poet too lol)

Samsung nx1

Talking Lens : SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4

Anamorphic Lens : Kowa for Bell & Howell

Le long du canal (Paris)

sadly imho only one answer : practicing!

Sorry but apparently you didn't write the Vimeo comments of the owner who said how much he love his NX1 and is not in anyway disapointed by it but just "felt like it was time to try something new".

I bought the GH4...and learned how much color and skin tones (straight out of camera cause I'm not so good at grading) are important : so I sold the GH4 and his ghostly skin tones for the NX1 and I'm very happy with it (coming from Canon 5D).

Samsung NX1
Anamorphic Lens : Kowa for Bell & Howell
Talking lenses : Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4

                         Super Takumar 105mm f/2.8

Cropped to 2.35 except slow-mo shots

Magic hour

what's the brand of the 20mm 1.4?

Looks like x1.5

Well...Now I'm really confused!!! Exact same thing : meaning there ain't no crop on the recording image, right?

I'm pretty sure there is no horizontal crop in the GH4, cause the flares were verticaly long enough (to my eyes at least). When I crop on the NX1 for example, I can clearly see the horizontal crop on the flares.

Really? I thought it was a real 4:3 Mode like in the GH4.

My concern is about flares, cause when you crop, you loose the long flare which is really annoying!

Correct and sad for the ones who can't afford shooting RAW...

One question : In ML the 4:3 mode is only RAW? Not H264?

Sorry for the late answer. I think it is possible to purchase the 800 euros NX1 from Europe because I purchased it from France. Although it's not possible to buy it directly from the site, You have to pay them first then they ship it to you, that's what I did and they were slow but serious. I think it's a real bargain !

I don't know where u live but in Europe you can buy the NX1 (I did lol) for less than 800 euros !

NX1 price

+++++++1 and some Euros.

Don't forget the anamorphic shooters and add a 4:3 mode!

4:3 mode for anamorphic shooters please...

anybody tried a M42 to NX adapter, I got a bunch of excellent M42 optics but I tried it with a GH4 and was very disapointed? It felt like the glass was to far from the sensor and I'm afraid it could be the same with the NX1...

Great test bzpop, strange that the annoying blue blobs doesn't appear in your video. Do you have a clue why ?

By the way, wich camera did you use (I was thinking of Sony As7 or A7rII) ?

I was watching "Fear the walking dead" 1st Episode and I saw flares, I was thinking they used streak filters but never saw flares like that with this kind of filters.

It get my attention, and then I saw oval bokeh, did they use Dog Shit oval aperture ?!

Then I went to IMDB Technical specs : Arri Alexa XT Plus, Panavision G-, T-Series, PVintage and Hawk V-Lite Vintage '74 Lenses.

From what I know of this is the first tv serie shot in anamorphic!

And I loved it! Dispointed by 16:9 format though....