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21 hours ago, Cinegain said:

A little late to the party, amigo. A lot of speculaas has been eaten already:

 

Ooo sorry, didn't thought it was the same "info". This topic should be deleted then, sorry about that :s

Just saw this event on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/events/1800044130310599

As I just needed to update my trusty AF100. This might just be it !

Let the speculations begin

I just want them to reduce the price of this damn BMPCC. Still the same price as when it came out, plus used market is still quite expensive in comparison to the retail price :s

On 04/05/2017 at 0:13 AM, tweak said:

Vid Atlantic is a pile of crap. Check Rapido, Raf, or rectilux if not Redstan. All 4 offer great solutions.

I wouldn't say Vid-Atlantic clamps are crap. I have both a RafCamera, Vid-Atlantic and Rapido.

Vid-atlantic is a great cheap solution which can be quickly adapted to everything.
RafCamera clamp is great if you plan on letting it on the same lens and adapter but adjusting it every time is a pain (with the tiny screws at least)
Rapido is just awesome and very reasonably priced IMO

1 hour ago, AaronChicago said:

I'm shooting with the GH5 + 50mm 2x anamorphic this weekend. If I want to use IBIS what should I set the focal length input? keep it at 50, or go to 25?

There is a topic here when someone asked this question and got a detailed answer, but I couldn't find it again :s Maybe someone else remembers it ?

15 hours ago, buggz said:

On 4/14/2017 at 2:45 PM, Ian Edward Weir said:
"John from Rectilux has something special up his sleeve."

Something newer than Core DNA?

I too want a wide/ultra wide anamorphic option.

I currently have two B&H Kowa anamorphics.

I want to see cheap wide angle anamorphics !!!

I usually love to shoot very wide, and that is something I miss now that I mostly shoot anamorphic. Hope I'll find a good solution soon

Hello @ReinisK and welcome to the anamorphic club !

First of all : WE WANT PICS ! I'd like to see your setup and images it produces. Very curious ! :D 

@Dr. Verbel' already has worked (with great success) on adapting these NAP2 lenses. I still have to do the conversion on mine though (Just 6 months late ... usual stuff)

As for the squeeze ration changing, it is quite normal with projection lenses. (Varies between 2.0X (at infinity) and 1.8X (at 1.5m) on my Isco ultrastar).
I just stick with 2.0X in post and usually you don't notice it unless you rack focus. A single focus solution would get rid of that.
If the ratio seems just off you can just change it in post

1 hour ago, Grimor said:

Filled the survey.

Now i want my 50% discount of this new lens!

Same here ! 25% would be great too if 50% isn't doable :D

On 4/13/2017 at 9:50 AM, Julien416 said:

It seems really reasonnable indeed. It shouldn't be so soft. You're right, shooting at f5.6 is really defeating the point of shooting anamorphic to get the look. However, i recently shot something with some pana serie C anamorphic gear and my DOP was really reluctant to go under 2.8. He really was fond on shooting at f4 where they supposedly shine. What i mean, is that f4 isn't something very unusual for anamorphic shooting. 

Anyway, a friend just received a rangefinder, i'll compare it to my hardcoreDNA to check if it's THAT soft. 

Great, thank you for your comparison

BTW, I changed my workflow from :
MLVFS -> After Effects -> Log cineform Intermediate -> Premiere
to :
MLVFS -> Resolve

I miss the noise reduction and RWA processing of ACR, but the time needed to create the intermediate files is just not worth it :s

4 hours ago, Ian Edward Weir said:

The Bolex 8/19 is the only lens i have tested and it worked. Results were subpar so I just decided to wait because John from Rectilux has something special up his sleeve. I was able to get a 24mm FOV with my Bolex. Top angle on my drum solo. 

This is great ! The only thing I miss using anamorphics, is the wide angle as I love using wide angle shots as much as possible. I guess I'll have to buy a short anamorphic like you bolex

With the 50D at the widest I could go with and without the "wider" setup.

Pic 1 : Canon 50D, Helios-44M 58/2, Ultrastar, +1 diopter, Rangefinder, Wide Angle Adapter :

Pic 2 : 50D, Pentax 40-80mm (@40mm), Ultrastar

YEP, the "wide angle" setup is actually tighter than the basic setup. It also a bit less sharp but shows less distortion (Which is something I like about wide angle anamorphics).

Back to square 1 :p

Some time ago, I bought one of these huge wide angle adapters (Mine is a Century Optics C5365 Wide Angle Adapter).

I tried to use it for wider anamorphic shots, but failed. As @Ian Edward Weir explained to me on my initial post on Facebook's anamorphic shooters group, you have to focus everything down to 0.5m in order for this to work, but no anamorphic adapters can focus this close of course :p

So here is my second attempt. And I find it quite successfull if I might say

Here is the setup :
- Pana AF100
- Minolta 50/1.4 (@ f/4)
- Isco Ultrastar
- +1 Close-up diopter
- SLR Magic Rangefinder
- Century Optics Wide Angle adapter

With the Rangefinder focused at the minimum (3'6 ft) I have infinity focus ! (YAY)

Pic 1 : With +1 diopter, Rangefinder, Wide Angle adapter (Both taking lens and anamorphic adapter focused to 1.5m)

Pic 2 : nothing in front of the ultrastar (focused at infinity) graded to match the previous image

Pic 3 : Same image uncorrected

It seems there is a lot of light loss with all the optical elements added :P

A bit of sharpness loss too, but that's to be expected knowing how NOT sharp the rangefinder is :s

I'll make a next attempt with my 50D to see if I can really get wide shots !

Let me know if you guys had any other attempts at this kind of frankensteineering  

13 hours ago, DamienMTL said:

- fixed/non rotating front filter/ring for standard cinema clip on mattebox

- non travelling focus ring

- neutral color flares

- metric and imperial marks

I'm pretty sure the Rectilux Hardcore DNA has all these features

The big question will be the price and availability of course. (Rectilux Hardcore DNA is £750 and come in small batches)

On 4/11/2017 at 9:24 PM, Julien416 said:

Well the thing is supposed to be very soft up to F2.8½ - F4. Even with their anamorphic primes, they recommend shooting at F4 / F5.6...

What was your average aperture when you used it ?

The live images were shot around f3.5 - f/4. But still, I don't really see the point of going f/4 then. If you shoot anamorphic, it is mainly for the flares and anamorphic bokeh. If I shoot at f/4, I don't get any of these :s

So, here is my problem with the Rangefinder : It is everything but sharp !

Here are a few test pictures (captured with the AF100, a Jupiter-8 and the Ultrastar)

First one with the rangefinder : 

And then with a "hama" +1 diopter (I had to move the camera a bit to get good enough focus)

The thing I noticed on these "not so contrasty" pictures is that everything is a bit less sharp, high contrast zones tend to show some haze.

I guess this is okay for the price, but then comes my real complain.

On bright tiny light sources, I get a weird coma like effect as seen on this picture (50D, Helios 44-2 @~f/3.5, Ultrastar, SLR Magic Rangefinder)

Plus there is a lot of haze on high contrast areas :s  (50D, Helios 44-2 @~f/3.5, Ultrastar, SLR Magic Rangefinder)

Do I have a bad copy of the SLR magic Rangefinder or are you experiencing similar results ?

I like to shoot wide open, when I bought my Rangefinder I knew it was not that sharp, but the results I saw online are not as bad as what I have seen so far on mine :s
I thought i could stop down my lenses for a bit, but it is just not the way I shoot mainly because I don't have a good high ISO camera. (AF100 and 50D are only acceptable up to 800ISO)
Maybe I just need to sell it and get a Rectilux :O (My bank account already disapproves !)

2 hours ago, Kisaha said:

I couldn't find the ebay listing, but there is this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/JVC-LS300-CHE-/132148473346?hash=item1ec4a9ae02:g:zoEAAOSwjDZYliPT

Spain is just a few hours away from France, and it has a lens and a stabilizing system, just do a quite small offer (something like 1999euros!) and wait to see if you can grab a bargain. In most cases ebay is very protective with buyers, but you always have to be careful on line.

nice ! thx !

Can you share some images ? I'm not sure I totally get it

As for the distance between the adapter and the lens, it is usually preffered to get them as close as possible. In my tests however (with the ulttrastar) I did not see much of a difference except for vignetting.

On 09/04/2017 at 2:09 PM, Mattias Burling said:

It was €2800 when I got it last year. It was a EU wide sale. Might come again.

Great news  

It seems that the cheaper way to get it now it to buy it from Adorama's ebay seller page. Which worries me a bit about the waranty.

Anyway, I asked JVC about trying it out first

2 hours ago, rook said:

Here's one I've never seen before. An Isco x2 Anamorphic with built-in Aperture (15 Blades Iris) Anyone see anything like this before?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Isco-x2-Anamorphic-Anamorphot-with-15-Blades-Iris-Sharp-F1-0-/132137717261?&_trksid=p2056016.m2516.l5255

This is just pornography to me :

Too bad the price is too high (and I already have 3+ anamorphic projection lenses :D )

You have the visiontech (log-like profile) and visioncolor (a bit flat but no log-like) profile on one package.
Visiontech will give you the most options in post production, whilst not being "too flat" (as cinestyle) and noisy as a consequence.

Marvel cine is a good option too (and it's free) but it doesn't look as good as visioncolor IMO.

You can read more about the different profiles
here : https://davidtregde.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/canon-picture-style-tests/ 
or here : http://philipbloom.net/blog/pictureprofiles/

9 hours ago, Blah Blah said:

Thanks a lot, I'm interested in those others too. How do you manage the different squeeze?

Well, I don't. I just unsqueeze everything to 2.0x.
If it looks a bit strange, then i may change the squeeze ratio in premiere/resolve but i didn't have to do that much

If you use a diopter, the stretch factor doesn't change

the isco ultrastar changes from 1.8X (1.5m) to 2.0m (infinity).
I'll have to check with my elmo I and Singer/Sankor 16D if you wanna know for these

16 hours ago, terraform said:

 

 Today, 11:36 AM

Hey there, 
I have a gig tomorrow where I will be using my Ursa Mini 4.6k as the main camera and the 2nd camera will be the Canon 5D Mark III.

It is a 2 person interview (shot / counter shot conversation type thing)

1080 is find for this but I am wondering what settings would be best on both the Ursa Mini and the 5D to relieve headaches in post as the edit needs to be turned around quickly.
Any suggestions are very much welcome.

I would reccomend using a vision color profile on your canon 5D and film on your ursa. And using a color chart for matching shots

Try to have two different framing values as it will be easier to match

In post, you match the ursa to the 5d mk3 and then apply your grade :p

Here is the last video I shot with the Canon 50D, Helios 44-2 and Pentax 135/2.5, Isco Ultrastar and SLR Magic rangefinder.

Not impressed by the reduced sharpness caused by the rangefinder but very usefull in these conditions. The throw is waaay to long though for a single operator :O

On 4/2/2017 at 9:46 PM, Greenhappy said:

Yes, I am starting to lean heavily on the Ultra-star, as overall it seems more practical as an adapter can get in terms of results for a sharp and usable image for projects other than experimentation and playing around.

Also what clamp size would i need, 72 mm ?

I have 58 on the Back (actually 60 but comes with a 60-58mm step-up if I remember correctly) and 72mm on the front