THE PERFECT SHARP LIGHT POCKET ANAMORPHIC SET ON OMD ! :)

[Sebastien Farges]

https://vimeo.com/77265744

 

 

This movie has been shoot during thursday 18th of october 2013, from the morning to the end of the afternoon, bringing my daughter at school, then filming with my students at university, then taking my daughter from her school. 
I'm glad to have now I think the perfect anamorphic set combination for my baby Hypergonar anamorphic lens. I bought few weeks ago a used Qioptiq C-mount lens, usually used in industry. This lens is very sharp, even at it's fastest aperture (f1.6) and this wide aperture is still usable with the anamorphic on it ! Some of the shot of the movie had been taken at f1.6. Here is a movie taken with this lens alone :
vimeo.com/75065010
It is not possible to screw directly the anamorphic lens on the Qioptiq prime lens because the front barrel is turning when you focusing. So I ordered a special machined flat step up ring to attach the two lens. I've unscrewed the ring on the Qioptiq that is maintening the glass, and replace with the special machined flat ring. Then I screwed on it the original small Berthiot clamp that can align the anamorphic lens. Then I put the baby Berthiot hypergonar in it. The combination suit perfectly !
The weight of this anamorphic combo is quite light. The Hypergonar weight is 57 grams, the clamp maybe 20 grams, the Qioptiq is 210 gram, then the two filters (diopter + variable ND) and step up rings maybe 150 grams. So the total is around only 400 grams !
And finally using the OM-D with it's 5 axis stabilization system with an anamorphic combo is very useful !

Olympus OM-D E-M5 5 1080P 30
Art 3 filter
no color correction
1/50 shutter speed 200 asa
Qioptiq MeVis C C-mount 35mm f1.6 lens (in this movie the lens was set between f1.6 to f5.6)
baby Berthiot Hypergonar 1.75X anamorphic lens 
Tokina diopter O.5
variable ND filter Cokin Pure Harmony
Xume magnetic filter attachments

Music : Siouxie and the Banshees "Night shift"

Flickr's album of the set :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43243778@N04/sets/72157636631334626/

[Chris Elkerton]

Nice! The camera stabilisation works really well, I can't do much better than that on a steadicam.

[Sebastien Farges]

Nice! The camera stabilisation works really well, I can't do much better than that on a steadicam.

Thanks Chris ! And now we pray that Panasonic will get this patent for the upcoming GH4 :p

[Francisco Rios]

Hope the patent will work at 24p...