Ian Edward Weir

10 hours ago, Jachang said:

Hi Guys, I have a question, hope you guys can help:

 Can we dual focusing on Zeiss contax with Bolex 16/32/1.5x?

Thank you!

I shot an entire video duel focusing with the Bolex 16/32. It's not that bad once you get the hang. I was blind by the end of the day. Vision totally blurred. I use a ProtoDNA variable diopter now with a 40mm on GH5. I would recommend getting a single focus solution because of where and tear on the Bolex. 

53 minutes ago, webrunner5 said:

Damn, you have become a modern David Attenborough! Really well done. Nice, no, Great stuff in it.

Thanks for watching and your kind review. I just do what I love. I love the travel and filming nature and then coming back and doing editing, sound design and music.  Norway next year.

I wanted to share a run and gun vacation travel film in Costa Rica. I took a Baby Hypergonar 1.75x with Voigtländer 40mm f2 and Bolex 8/19/1.5x with Jupiter 11a f4 135mm. I had a ProtoDNA variable diopter in front of both combos. GH5 scenery setting. Finished in 5k. 

21 hours ago, SebYT said:

Hi all

Has anyone tried the Fujinon MK cine zoom lenses with any form of anamorphic adapters? I know SLR magic makes one specifically for them so I guess in theory they should work, but I'd be more interested in using one with a vintage anamorphic like a Kowa.

Anyone have any experience with this?

Cheers,
Seb

I have always wanted to test with Fuijnon MK cine zooms. They look beautiful and are parfocal so you could do a zoom with anamorphic attachment. I have never seen a test yet. 

I have the Takumar V2 135mm f2.5 and found the Jupiter 11A to blow it away in sharpness. Plus you have a nice round aperture at every f-stop. Jupiter is f4 but looks so good

29 minutes ago, canonlyme said:

 

Thanks for your response. That is such a good insight!

When you are an artist, as a filmmaker, you find your own way of doing it and if it works and you have the time for it, I see no problem in this at all. In contrary, I think it is really nice if someone takes such passion and time for something, unless you would find out a much quicker way to do the same.

Yes, I chose minoltas not for their price, but I looked at comparisons of images and their special way to treat colors just pleased me the best. Now I am happy I could afford the whole lens set without spending too much. Something that vintage lenses do is they give a special treatment to colors, where if I would take the same effort in post to try to create something special and tweak around a lot, it would probably turn out garbage until I become much better at grading. 

Did you encounter any problems with bringing the clips from HLG to rec709/premiere color space? Because the way that HLG is filmed it introduces a greenish color tint from what I have learned. 
 

 

I used Leeming Lut Pro and did not have any issues at all. It covers Cine D and HLG  All my childhood photos are on Minolta glass. https://www.leeminglutpro.com/

On 3/2/2019 at 8:13 AM, canonlyme said:

 

Thanks Julius, that sounds cool about documentary. I'm addicted to finding and creating the moving paintings in nature with anamorphic lens. I'm very old school with my approach to color. I like to get things as close as possible to what I'm seeing. It's really the anamorphic lens, taking lens and filters that are giving me my look. I color with Film Convert to give me the greens, blues and yellows I like. Even then I dial the preset way down. I then use Lumetri to tweak contrast and highlights. With Davinci you have more tools and flexibility but for nature work, I feel the glass takes care of 90% of the final image. for my workflow, it's kinda tedious and not for everyone. I de- stretch each shot in it's native resolution. Some shot's are 8k and some 5k. I then do a first pass color treatment and then export out a Pro Res HQ 8k or 5k .mov file with max bit depth and render. Each clip I export is 20-30 sec's even know I end up using 6-8 secs. I then reimport and edit on a 5k timeline and do additional tweaks if needed. I'm sure working in Davinci with proxies might make more scents but I'm building a library of nature footage and want to go back to clips. 

 The B&H and Minolta glass will create a very nice color pallet. 

If you enjoyed my Yellowstone film, you might like this. I filmed this over 1 day in the Grand Tetons National Park. 

47 minutes ago, Tito Ferradans said:

Hey Ian! That's awesome, man! (no surprise, I must say hahahaha)

Could you estimate how much raw footage (in terms of time) you have, for cutting these 17 minutes?

Hey Tito! Thanks  This project was the most challenging and a tuff one to estimate. 2 factors that causes it to take so long was for the first time ever I had an SD card fail. I lost my entire first day of footage. I spent the next three months having data recovery attempt to get it back with no luck. The other factor was most of my long shots had dust and specs because it was super run and gun and I was car camping. I looked like Rambo. Soooo I had to buy and learn Mocha Pro to remove spots from footage. Another month gone. My workflow is bananas also. I keep each shot in its native resolution. This is a mix of 8k, 6k and 5k because I was switching between 1.5x and 1.75x 4:3 and 16:9. I finished on a 5k timeline but I can always go back to each clip which is 30 secs or lonnger. There is around 180 shots in this and another 175 shots I did not use or process. Some are reframed and some are completely different shots that I did not use. I learned many valuable lessons on this shot. Make sure you always have a back lens cap on and use an air bower would have saved me over a month of my time

1 hour ago, TurboRat said:

Amazing shots and love the grading! Just a question, what adapter did you use for the Pentax to GH5?

Thanks! It’s funny, I ordered both the Fotdiox and the K&F, which has a better build but the Fotdiox has a nice and streamline apature ring that you do not hit or gets in the way. 

8mm anamorphic run and gun with Baby Hypergonar 1.75x , Bolex 8/19 1.5x , Kowa 8 2x + ProtoDNA 

2 hours ago, mirekti said:

This is really nice.
One unrelated question, did you have the IBIS on?  I own GH5S and I like it a lot, but what I am really struggling with is the handheld footage.
 

Thanks Mirekti. Yes, I do have the IBIS on. It would be imposable to hold a 200mm steady handheld without it. Usually you can get away with wide angle lens and holding hand held but the longer the more shack will be introduced. It will be interesting to see what Panasonic does with next iteration of GH5 and GH5's. The IBIS is nice but wish I had a small shoulder rig or mono pod to get even smoother shots. I could have done warp stabilizer in post to help it out but wanted to see what it looked like without. 

Here is my second run and gun with the ProtoDNA.

GH5 4k handheld with Bolex 8/19 1.5x with Zeiss Tevidon 100mm f2 with Rectilux ProtoDNA.

On 11/18/2018 at 7:17 AM, matthere said:

@Ian Edward Weir Nice footage, thanks for sharing this, I have been looking for something to work with the baby hypergonar 1.75x, also interested if the ProtoDNA works with the Kowa 2x, it is a little unclear from your write up? Thank you ?

Thanks, I have the Kowa 2x and I'm gonna shoot a little test with it and the ProtoDNA soon. It does work but I find the Kowa 2x to be slightly more difficult to work with then the Bolex 8/19 or Baby Hypergonar. It's more difficult to pull focus and getting infinity is tricky. It still looks great. I have not tried the widest but a 50mm works with no 1.4x tele needed in 4k and works in 6k. Will post here when it's done. Cheers. 

3 hours ago, Lenscamera said:

This actually look really good! I like the music too. Did you do work in post to minimize breathing compared to the previous core DNA or is breathing improved in the ProtoDNA? Is this going to replace the coreDNA? 

The link of your write up doesn't work. 

Here is the link again on write up. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wur5R39J-MUMF30jurvd8__sqxTx0rgr0uR2k6hXKcY/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks! I did not do anything in post to minimize breathing. The Hard core DNA is for 16mm and 35mm projection scopes and the ProtoDNA is for us weirdo's who love shooting with 8mm anamorphic scopes.

This link works on write up.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wur5R39J-MUMF30jurvd8__sqxTx0rgr0uR2k6hXKcY/edit?usp=sharing

2 hours ago, webrunner5 said:

You should have bought that Pink Flamingo instead LoL. Everyone in Florida is suppose to have one in their front yard. That looked liked a Voodoo Doll that put a hex on you. Well done.

Thanks! The funny thing is my wife who is in the video is the one who made the doll too. See does not need Voodoo because she could poison me any day of the week.

One thing I realize is when I put 50% grain on filmconvert it ends up looking like noise. Image was super clean before. 

Shot on GH5 with store sequence in 4k anamorphic mode with Baby Hypergonar 1.75x anamorphic attachment. Taking lens was MeVis 50mm f1.8 shot wide open. Outside shots in 4k with Bolex 8/19 1.5x anamorphot with MeVis 35mm f1.6. Shot at f2.8 with ND filter. Rectilux ProtoDNA variable diopter was used as well as Fujinon Close Up attachment. Colored with Film Convert.

I wanted this to be a light and fun run and gun test vs a highly technical test.

Here is my write up on the ProtoDNA. I will add more info later.
https://docs.google.com/…/1wur5R39J-MUMF30jurvd8__sqx…/edit…

Here are some pics of my 8mm anamorphic lens with the ProtoDNA.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KiL5jZp4MRojR9tZ6

I hope you enjoy. Cheers!

5 hours ago, Grimor said:

Hi Ian! Great images for sure!!!

Can you explain a little bit of your workflow:

Is the GH5 on 4:3 anamorphic 6k mode?

How bad is the vignette with the rectilux?

I really interested because i have those  pieces of equipment, but with Kowa B&H  instead (so for me is 2x).

I will be doing a Christmass ad for my corporation next week and anamorphic is always a plus!

Hi Grimor, I shot in 4:3 4k for a de-stretched image size of 5824 x 2496. I then finished in 5k with a 5120 × 2880 frame size for YouTube. I was pushing the limit with a 25mm taking lens which is why I did not have the HCDNA in front to avoid more vignetting. I even did a slight Mesh Warp in After Effects on vignettes that were there. In your case with a 2x, I think you might want to use 4:3 4k with 1.4x tele. You could use the HCDNA with that. I knew I would not be moving much and double focus was not an issue. 

Here is a video poem piece I did pairing the Kowa Inflight 1.75x with the  Voigtlander Nokton 25mm f/0.95. Shot at f1.4 on GH5 and delivered in 5k. Really love this combo.

Slight coloring tweaks with Film Convert. Hope you guys like image. I took off HCDNA to avoid vignetting. 

video > Make America Again

2 minutes ago, Teemu said:

Really cool! Can you also make really fast zoom changes with that setup? This is something I would like to try out.

Yes

If you like zooms with anamorphic's you might like this

Sorry, posted in wrong place. 

Just now, sanveer said:

The Live Stream has suddenly LOST audio. Wow

WTF!!!

Here is my first test and time shooting with Canon ENG B4 parfocal zoom with Kowa Inflight 1.75x. I even got creative with it's limitations. Most of the focal range does not vignette. The good news is you don't need a variable diopter, the bad news is that you need a large scope and it's duel focus. The Inflight has a 54mm rear. Having a larger scope you could use the whole focal range. GH4 - Cine V. More to come.

1 minute ago, Rudolf said:

so beautiful and heartwarming on a cold, rainy and grey day here in Hamburg (northern hemisphere ;-) ) Thank you very much for posting!

I'm glad you enjoyed the journey and please feel free to come back anytime  Cheers Rudolf!