Juan Le

I don't have a ton of money to spend on new gear yet, but would love to see these products get distributed out soon with reviews and inputs from other users! The specs look amazing on paper, but how will it fare performance wise? Very excited to see what's in store for Anamorphic users in the near future.

Sorry I was just confused because you said this in the post above

When mounting an anamorphic adapter over your prime lens, you'll need to focus with both the adapter and the prime. This is called dual focus, where you have to deal with two focus rings. Iscoramas are expensive because they use a mechanical design that allow you to single focus (just as you regularly do on a manual prime lens). You adjust your prime to infinity, and focus with the adapter's focus ring. It's design is patented so no other vintage anamorphic adapters will have this luxury... hence the price of the product compared to others.

What does the letters stand for, do you know? Is it just to mark how wide the lens would go? And is it similar or exactly the same for all the other anamorphic? (Sankor 16c vs 16f for an example, compare to Kowa 16-H and the others)

I'm pretty new into anamorphic shooting, and don't have my own lens yet, but I've done a lot of research in the last two weeks and it seem the larger projector lens usually have really far focus distance, something like 5-6m+.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at Sankors, they seem to be more widely available and in mint than other anamorphic adapters. Do you have any negative experience with using these lenses without a support system aside from the clamp mount adapter? I'm just a bit worried since I already have my prime connected to a speed booster adapter, and don't know how steady and solid it will be with another lens stacked on top. EDIT: one last question, to avoid vignetting what minimum size focal length would I need for something like a Sankor? Since I'm using a 50mm on a speed booster will that affect it as well? Can someone with experience shed some light on this?

Does it not seem ironic that this website is made to promote professional works done by users, and to discriminate against amateur contents and mass media advertisements, all the while trying to profit from an existing video hosting platform via ads and subscriptions? It all seem very gimmicky to me, at least the part where you guys are claiming "upload", yet are just embeddings of Vimeo players that are linked from Vimeo itself. This is a played out idea done by sites like Reddit and Imgur in my opinion, the question is do we need more of these, and how badly?

Hey sorry 'bout that, I'm new so didn't quite see the search bar up top (I was looking around the forum window for it instead, DOH!) So, reading up on some of the threads it look like these are projector lenses, so I'm guessing a rig is 100% necessary with forward lens support. I see that you're also experienced with these lenses Andy? Do you know how much they weighed in as? What about the suggested market price for these? (I believe the ones in the ebay link need to be cleaned professionally, that's why it's so cheap) Lastly, do ya have any suggestion or recommendation for these type of lenses that are within the "budget" range, 3x cheaper than say, a decent Kowa Prominar on ebay ($500-700)? I'm a bit conflicted with the price point some of these lenses, the cheaper ones seem to be way bulkier/heavier. At least the Rathenower are the smaller anamorphic projector type lenses I've seen so far, anything else are just ridiculously large.

Hello all, I'm really new to anamorphic shooting, have no experience even, and I recently saved up over the summer for a GH4. I'm currently forcing myself to experiment shooting manual (I came from a background of point-n-shoots). My lens setup currently is a Metabones Speed Booster (Nikon - MFT) with a minty vintage Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 Ai lens. I have a little of money left; either for more vintage lenses, or a rig with a cheap anamorphic lens. I recently saw on ebay a batch of Rathenower lenses from Europe for relatively cheap. Does anyone have any personal experience using this and other pricier anamorphic lenses? How is the image in comparison? Ease of use and mounting? Good bang for the buck, and value in these lenses? Descriptive input appreciated. Thanks for your time!