Chris Elkerton

Hey August,
Good to know, I have an 80mm Squarefront with Olex at the minute. What brand adapter are you using?

Pretty good. I have 3 PL adapters from 3 different sellers. The one ciecio7 is the best you can buy and funkykoval2001 is the the second best IMO.

Anamorphic isn't just about the aspect ratio, do some more research and look at more samples, the whole image, composition, rendering of the lens, flare, depth compression and look of out of focus areas is different.

Thanks, that's the first time I've used a flare in a video.  But not the last. :lol: :D

Nice mate. I like the opening shot with the flare, looks really cool.

The taking lens was the SLR Magic 35mm T1.4 Cine Mark II for both of these, used at F2.8, the camera was a GH3.
 
A live acoustic video, on this one I've intentionally gone for a look with flares:
 

 
Some night street footage, at F2.8 it's a bit tricky when there's not much street lighting, I may well re-edit this video, maybe to include more footage.
 

Very cool mood to your shots, nice job!

Hey,
 
Just though I'd share a few shots from my trip to the Lake District last week. Such a cool place.
Taken w/ Canon 5D Mark ii, Sankor 16C, Jupiter 9
 
http://www.eoshd.com/comments/gallery/album/117-anamorphic-lakes/
 
:)
 

Nice work Seb!

Thanks Yiannis

Nice job!

Hey,
 
Just though I'd share a few shots from my trip to the Lake District last week. Such a cool place.
Taken w/ Canon 5D Mark ii, Sankor 16C, Jupiter 9
 
http://www.eoshd.com/comments/gallery/album/117-anamorphic-lakes/
 
:)
 

Very nice...'IMG 4983 2' looks rather lovely.

Hey Borja,
Yes unfortunately Lomo zooms do command a high price, if it seems too good to be true it probably is. This forum is a good place to buy for the most part. Tito is a good guy he's been doing business on here for a while.
I would say anything this old and Russian would need to be serviced to get the best out of it anyway. If your budget won't stretch, go with a Sankor or a Kowa, you wont go too far wrong.

Hey Borja,
Yes unfortunately Lomo zooms do command a high price, if it seems too good to be true it probably is. This forum is a good place to buy for the most part. Tito is a good guy he's been doing business on here for a while.
I would say anything this old and Russian would need to be serviced to get the best out of it anyway. If your budget won't stretch, go with a Sankor or a Kowa, you wont go too far wrong.

2 x Red Epic Dragons
1 x Kowa anamorphic set
Massively impractical, completely pointless and it will probably bankrupt you. Might be fun though. :)

Or just keep the money, move to Cuba and change your name to Miguel.

2 x Red Epic Dragons
1 x Kowa anamorphic set
Massively impractical, completely pointless and it will probably bankrupt you. Might be fun though. :)

Or just keep the money, move to Cuba and change your name to Miguel.

2 x Red Epic Dragons
1 x Kowa anamorphic set
Massively impractical, completely pointless and it will probably bankrupt you. Might be fun though. :)

Or just keep the money, move to Cuba and change your name to Miguel.

2 x Red Epic Dragons
1 x Kowa anamorphic set
Massively impractical, completely pointless and it will probably bankrupt you. Might be fun though. :)

Or just keep the money, move to Cuba and change your name to Miguel.

$5000 for shipping from Germany to the US seems legit :)
Maybe he plans on hiring Elton John to swim it across the Atlantic wearing a pair of gold Speedos.

$5000 for shipping from Germany to the US seems legit :)
Maybe he plans on hiring Elton John to swim it across the Atlantic wearing a pair of gold Speedos.

i have the mod and yes its expensive but im glad i got it.

besides the metal housing protecting the lens, it makes it much stronger, so im not so worried about the plastic shrinking, deforming when focusing. i think it can take much more abuse.

you will need lens support. it does get heavy enough that i think itd rip out a m4/3 mount, and stress out an ef mount.

close focus at 3'7" rocks. you still need a diopter to achieve the nice bokeh i feel, but now ive got so much more flexibility.

i do think the weight and increased throw makes it become less of a one man crew lens when using it. and if youre using a follow focus, you need to use use a thick gear and a speed crank to take care of the long throw. metal focus gear on metal focus gear will make noise. (im looking for a rubber focus gear on my follow focus.) the front element extends long enough you can probably forget using a mattebox. but this is all how i feel about the 54 anyway. both a rehoused 36 and 54 are amazing lenses but in my opinion they still produce different results.

i also agree w tferradans in that i wouldnt have rented out the plastic version just because i dont think its robust enough. (i havent rented mine out yet and dont expect to until i figure out how to protect my investment in case someone says "it's lost").

and yes i think the resale value goes up. unless van diemen can crank out the mod in a week, youre not only reselling the lens, youre reselling the amount of time it took to get the mod in the first place which is a few months and seems like some people need/want the iscorama urgently enough to pay for it.

i say if you seriously get use out of your 36, shoot a lot, and you have friends/crew that can AC for you, then get it. i absolutely love mine, its on my camera 95% of the time.

if youre iscorama is nice and greased up, youre only shooting tests and youre a one man crew and really not using it that much, i dont think think the mod is worth that money.

I agree. Plus I think it's worth it purely for aesthetics, Van Diemen rehousings look awesome! Pure lens porn. ;)

31 inch? Nahh...
 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/18/lg-105-inch-curved-uhd-tv-105UB9/