Orcadia
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i just recieved iscorama so....
For sale SLR Magic anamorphot with diopter set 975€ delivery included for europe
in box very lightly tested never left studio.
no disrespect intended to SLR magic its very cool system. will put on ebay tommorrow if no interest
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No disrespect to Slr Magic and their innovative projects but..
For sale My SLR magic anamorphot with diopters, 950 euros plus transport, location paris, europe.
(Just bought an iscorama)
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ha. Play Nicely Mr Wilson
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i am very interested to buy this iscorama but impossible from outside US (or contact through ebay), does anybody on the forum know who thes eller is and his/her contact?
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Wow thnaks for this. really great
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Its already sold but thank you for your suggestions Stuart.
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Letus is really okay, dont undersatnd why people are criticising it so much just because someone hasnt shot bladerunner 2 on it, but to big for what i want to do, SLR magic really interesting but a different fish, generally im not sure now the 1.33x stretch with these two modern solutions is enough to justify all the extra work. Currently testing some classic 1.5x anamorphots. Selling the letus as we speak, probbaly the slr magic at a later point. no disrespect to either product. no one perfect camera no one perfect lens.
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Works really great on the BMPCC but having problems on full frame 5D3
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Its a huge but simple anamorphic block.
You can rack focus through it to some extent.
It s not fussy seems to work with most lenses including very fast canon 85mm and 50mm 1.2
Not a lot of character (but some) and works and works very close (5cm) without adding other secondary optical elements.
Flares very little.
Importantly it goes as wide as 35mm on full frame and of course superwide on smaller frames.
Pretty expensive especially for non USA buyers.
Variable ND filter could be problematic.
My opnion is that its a very useful tool for Canon 5D shooters in particular, adding about 25 percent more information when trying to achieve anaomorphic aspect ratios and working with their exisiting high end canon glass.
As of now a unique product.
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Frankenstein!. wide angle
For what its worth.
BMPCC
letus anamorphic without mattebox.
Metabones speedbooster
nikon 24mm with 4 step up rings.
1.6kg (needs a handle though)
should theoretically go to around 21mm wide (real world)
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yes focus is off, but thats probably me not adapter, bit unfair to the product was walking around in the rain, with a rain cover, at dusk without rig on a 50mm at 1.2 or 1.8 kind a asking for trouble, but i do have my own agenda.
nice choice of frame by the way. The magic lantern 5D3 i think is incredible
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quick walk around test. handheld
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89252080/bastille%20edit2.zip
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Another very (very) rough test.
Pulling focus (by hand) on the Letus anamorphic adapter. on a monopod.
focusing Prime lens only, anamorphic fixed.
5D3 ML RAW with 50mm 1.2 at F4
Obviously not a very fair test 2 feet to 25 is extreme but gives the general idea what to expect.
Also just received the 77mm filter to connect lens direct to adapter, absolutely essential.
The adapter will now connect to lens and camera without Rails (reducing size) but its a lot weight, hand held is good but would probably damage lens over time on a tripod.
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No worries.Burnet.
Letus Anamorphic adapter operation.
focus prime, focus adapter , precision focus prime.
In practice its faster and simpler than it sounds. The adapter has a massive long throw focusing wheel which is moving part of the adapter nearly an inch back and forth.
Also its not really like the other anamorphic adapters I've tested in the sense that once you are in generally area of focus (adapter) you can then rack focus with the prime only. important
and to be clear the adapter does focus very close, closer than most of your primes, we were just testing macro capability which isn't really a fair test. From my (limited ) knowledge of current anamorphic systems the sharpness of our close image (without any extra diopters etc) sample is pretty impressive.
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Well, the Letus is a "true" anamorphic lens. As such it's just a given that sharpness with the adapter is going to be lower than without. You are making a conscious decision that the addition of horizontal FOV and the character inherent in its distortion are worthy trade offs to clinical sharpness when you choose to go with anamorphic. The same shot will always be sharper without the anamorphic, no matter the anamorphic(*).
How close you're able to get with still workable sharpness (which is going to be fairly subjective) before being aided by diopters or perhaps a different taking lens is still a very helpful experiment though.
edit: (*) this might seem to create a slight paradox when comparing anamorphic 35mm to Super-35mm, where anamorphic has much more detail and delivers a sharper, more detailed release on film or digital. This is because for a given final aspect ratio the anamorphic photography uses the entire height of the film negative where Super-35mm crops to a smaller window of the negative to achieve the same aspect ratio.
While that may simply be trivia it has the same implications for anamorphic DSLR photography when you're shooting for an intended aspect ratio and not simply comparing still for still. 2.35:1 with an anamorphic adapter, despite the hit to sharpness, can ultimately be better, sharper and with more detail than 2.35:1 cropped out of the sharpest taking lens you'll find (once you alter your taking position to achieve similar framing and then either blown up the spherical or reduce, therefore oversample, the anamorphic).
Thanks. My main interest is indeed increase image information that the anamorphic on dslr provides.
ML on 5Dmrk3 also throws another element into question wether the 3x crop factor is better than using anamorphic, in respect to quantity of information .
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No idea about any of that.
Never used any other anamorphic system.
just trying to give a bit of information back to forum.
Reporting as I see it.
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just processed RAW to video.
results very good indeed. far better than initially thought.
all working perfectly to just about 35 cm distance.
2 second full rez quicktime RAW ML 5D mrk3 100mm macro canon
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89252080/letus_100mm_crop_stretch.mov.zip
also adding to previous post ;this is what frame looks like without adapter , Canon glass YEAH!!.
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Very CLOSE UP SAMPLE
funny we were just asking ourseleve s same questions.
Attached 100mm macro/close up shot through letus adapter.
Its very good but would be sharper without the letus adpater.
Letus does permit very close up with some loss in sharpness but macro not possible at least with configurtion we were trying)
still no conclusive tests, but so far its great system, it seems to lack the character and soul of the true anamorphic lenses but this is a trade off against a system that works very straightforwardly; no dipoters etc. .
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letsu adpter medium flare single coated.
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Very rough test Anamorphic letus adpter
Canon 5DMRK3, ML RAW, 3200 iso, film convert used
tripod on dolly
Sigma 35mm 1.8 , lenses 50mm at 1.2, , 100mm macro at 2.8 all wide open.
Letus anamorphic adapter.
very rough first tests. very low light full frame 35mm
(Thanks JB)https://vimeo.com/85719835
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I have the came TV nebula , brilliant, you have to put time in too both balance and learn basic technique (i think a lot of people posting forget that), and functioning weight is low (5D with big lens limit ) but really impressed, it really works. trick is to pick your camera configuration and stick with that, comes with a seperate remote control WTF!!!