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I hoped to bid the same listing but totally forgot about that until it had 14 seconds left!

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what a voice i was at this concert in athens.... very nice 

Like to share this one shot acoustic Music Video I created for Arctic Chanteur, North Star Blues singer, ex Madrugada frontman Sivert Hoyem. Shot with a Kowa Anamorphic. Tokina Diopter. Redstan Clamp. Canon 50mm FD 1.2

 

Hey, I made this video with my 5D3/magic lantern/Raw for Franklin, a nice french electro-pop musician.
 

Here's what I got. It's mine, so you can have it if you want. I've already done this video, but it's just random extra footage that I had sitting around, I'd love to see it paired with some more intentional footage.
 

This is my music that I make all on my own:
 

 
Let me know if you like it and want to use any of it. :-)

Hi everyone,
thought I'd share my own music with the eoshd community.
 
I work with vintage analog gear and modular synthesizers to create soundscapes ranging from experimental ambient to modern electro. 
As a filmaker myself I tend to compose very visual and cinematic music, and I'd love to have it featured in any of your projects. 
 
http://oceancamp.bandcamp.com/album/enter-sunlight
 
Thanks eoshd for the opportunity to share my music and for the constant flow of information about new gear.
Now back to where i left...GH4, BMPCC, 5D...so many cameras so little time  :)

Hi Andrew and folks,
 
Be great if you could check out my music, did this a few years back but the genre to label it with still eludes me. My apologies in advance if self-recommendation is not allowed. Thanks for listening  :)
 
http://poplin.bandcamp.com/

check this band: Electric Château
 

Having it sitting for a long time, I said to finally give it a try, as until now it was impossible to get any info about it, or even so to find a video made with this rare beast. 
Quick test of the Moller Anamorphot 30/2x, on an Oly E-M1.
I have to admit that wasn't that easy to work with it, it's big like an Iscorama, not easy to use just an anamorphic clamp and I always prefer smaller anamorphics to play with, so I don't have the proper rig solution for this Moller. But the image quality that comes out of it, puts it (at least) beside Iscorama.
Any comment is welcome, this lens is a miracle:
 

Here is a movie done with the SLR Magic Anamorphot 50, a 1.33X anamorphic lens.
All the details are subtitled in the movie, here are the material :
SLR Magic Anamorphot 50, 1.33X anamorphic lens
1-On Sony A7 with Konica Hexanon 40mm f1.8 pancake lens
2-On Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Nikon E Serie 50mm f1.8 pancake lens and Lumix 20mm pancake lens
Some of the shots done with the focal reducer TurboLens, a cheaper version of the SpeedBooster
Some of the shot done with SLR Magic achromatic diopters (0.33X and 1.3X) and Tokina 0.5X diopter
ND variable filter
No color correction
 

Just finished this music video using the GH4 and BMPCC. 
 

Shame about the mis alignment.  That flare colour is lovely.
 
 I've always wanted this lens just as a display piece - that front optic is stunning.  I'd probably under light it in a glass dome and have it as a centre piece in my bachelor pad.  

Yes I see, clamping the rear cell is not such a robust solution and is not ideal for many reasons.
A good design would protect the cell from damage.
 
A better mounting solution is required which would enhance its value.
If you are interested in having something custom designed for this scope, PM me for details.

At last a chance to see this unit perform. Perhaps you can show some daytime footage?
 
These units show up about 4/5 times a year, always without the back lens which would have been a Cooke Speed Panchro F2/50 or similar with focus mechanism. Before the resurgence of interest in anamorphic with the advent of large sensor cameras over the last 5/6 years, it seems that these units were scavanged for the Cooke SPs which is a great pity since the complete unit would be quite a treasure.
 
How are you mounting it, do you have a picture to show?

other than we all have that bookcase from ikea, i can say it looks great, and you should ship it directly to me....!

Having it sitting for a long time, I said to finally give it a try, as until now it was impossible to get any info about it, or even so to find a video made with this rare beast. 
Quick test of the Moller Anamorphot 30/2x, on an Oly E-M1.
I have to admit that wasn't that easy to work with it, it's big like an Iscorama, not easy to use just an anamorphic clamp and I always prefer smaller anamorphics to play with, so I don't have the proper rig solution for this Moller. But the image quality that comes out of it, puts it (at least) beside Iscorama.
Any comment is welcome, this lens is a miracle:
 

Thank you very much 
Yeah that´s my favorite on the lockers.
We recorded it in just 2 hours, they worked hard for their first time on camera ;)

PREFACE: I have been doing some testing with this lens for a while now, but lately I have been swamped with work. Also, there has been some sadness surrounding the girl who appears in the demo video (and several other anamorphic tests of mine), so anamorphic shooting has been on the back burner for a while now. But I'm seeing now that someone else has had the same idea, and is trying to make an unrealistic profit from it. And so I feel that I must post this write up, because this isn't a $1400 lens.
 
The search for the perfect anamorphic lens is over (at least for me).
 

 
Some months ago, I saw a post here from a member named frerichs. He claimed to have purchased a Bell & Howell 2x 16mm Anamorphic Projection lens (not the excellent Kowa model) for cheap and discovered that it was single focus, like the coveted Iscorama. I was skeptical, but since they can often be had for between $75 and $150 on eBay, I bought one to try out for myself.
 
At first glance this lens does not look like a winner. It has neither the steam punk appeal of the Lomo square fronts, nor the timeless curves of the Iscorama. The impossibly long and narrow build of the lens suggests that this would never be viable match for anything but the longest taking lenses.
 

 
And yet it works. The front element is a -7 diopter that focuses the other two elements in the housing as the head is turned, similar to the Iscorama. Unlike the Iscorama, the lens takes about five full rotations to go from infinity to close focus, which is limiting for practical use. But I have been working with a CNC machinist to resolve this, and I now have a prototype that allows me to do a full range rack focus in a one and a half turns:
 

 
(Want to do this yourself? Ask a machinist to design a new front housing with a "multi-start thread" that will house the front diopter and screw directly onto the existing thread on the tube; this could also conceivably be done for Iscoramas to the same effect). 
 
We have also added a standard 58mm threading for easier filter mounting, and I've since installed a custom seamless ultra-wide delrin focus gear to add just a little torque for even easier focusing (not pictured).
 
The Bell & Howell projection lenses that originally shipped with this lens were f/1.2 and f/1.4, so it is designed to be sharp at faster apertures -- and I find that it is. Perhaps not razor sharp, but as sharp as I'd ever want an anamorphic lens to be. And once you've removed the two limiting screws from the "head" of the lens, you can focus as close as two feet without diopters. Too much closer than that and the head will screw right off, but it's just as easy to screw right back on.
 
Flaring is nice:
 

 
The lens is not without its drawbacks. For one, it focuses to about 40 feet, not true infinity. That's not an issue for me, but it might be for some shooters. It's all-metal construction makes it a bit heavy which combined with its length will benefit from a lens support (which eliminates the shake that appears in my rack focus test). It vignettes when paired with wider lenses, so it is a better fit for smaller sensor cameras or Canon DSLRs with Magic Lantern raw crop mode enabled. For instance, I can shoot 1600x1200 with a Pentax Takumar 105mm f2.8 lens on my 5D Mark III and I don't see any vignetting before f/8. I also tested it with a Nikkor 50mm f1.8 AI-S on my GH2, and it was vignette-free so long as I cropped my 2x image down to 1.5x.
 

 
So how does the footage look? Here's something that I shot with it: 
 

 
I am excited to add a sharp, easily rack-focusable, short minimum-focusing anamorphic to my arsenal. It won't be the right lens for every anamorphic user, especially those who want to be able to shoot as wide as possible, but for the price, it could make single-focus anamorphics more accessible to those who have not had a chance to work with them yet. 
 
Happy shooting!

Not sure if this was posted anywhere, but great test footage of the GH4 4K + Sankor 2x Anamorphic from Martin Wallgren:
 

Anamorphot is now SOLD. Thank you.

I am an american and I stand for capitalism. If you sell for xxx price and someone buys it, that means both parties are happy. It's not like Zack is forcing anyone to buy anything. 

Here's a production blog with some BTS stills and footage (might want to skip the two most recent posts), and here's the main website, which we'll probably update further in the coming months. The blog's written by one of our producers and doesn't delve into technical aspects much, however.
 
I liked working with the bolex adapter lens, we used it in conjunction with a redstan adapter ring and Nikkor AI prime lenses. We had experimented with Zeiss lenses, but found that the look of the footage we got, with the bolex adapter over the top, was almost identical to the Nikkor-prime footage, so we chose the Nikkors because they had a consistent 52mm filter ring.
 
The big trick, of course, is that you can't really rack because the lenses have to be focused separately. We found that the Bolex's horizontal focus was a little more forgiving than the prime, but it was generally the case that the Bolex had to be focused first, and then the prime lens. Occasionally the circumstances were such that we couldn't see well enough on our little 5" monitor to get things perfectly focused, especially in the rush of shooting a feature over a tight time schedule. For the film's handful of rack focus shots, we used a cinemorph filter, which did an adequate job of matching the look. The 35mm vignetted slightly but after cropping 11% off the sides to get to a 2.4:1 aspect ratio it was cropped out. The 24mm vignetted quite a bit, but looked alright blown up slightly and still resulted in a slightly wider shot than the 35mm after cropping/resizing.
 
I really liked the flares the lens produces. Blue and very 1980s sci-fi-ish, there are a few of them in the trailer. They have a soft quality to them that was nice. It flared perhaps just slightly easier than would be ideal, but not bad.

A trailer for an upcoming feature film I wrote and co-directed.
 
We shot the movie on a C300 using the 16/32/1.5x Bolex Moller anamorphic adapter lens. Many thanks to the people on this forum for helping me figure out the logistics of this during pre-production!

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