Anamorphic time lapse footage

[RupertPupkin]

Hey all,

 

So I've finally gotten my hands on an Anamorphic lens (Sankor 16C), and made my first quick video with it, testing it out.  I absolutely love using it, I'm surprised how sharp it is when shooting wide open.  Focusing hasn't been an issue yet, it's pretty simple and straight forward.  I'm also impressed with how the image shoots at 50mm, 85mm is the recommended focal length for no vignetting on APS-C, but a few of the time lapses in my video are with the 50mm, and while the vignetting is visible, it is so slight.     

 

I shot a lot of time lapse, and anamorphic time lapse isn't something I've seen on here before so I thought I'd share it.  

 

Critiques are welcome, but I already know the handheld footage is shaky, hard to shoot handheld with a 85mm lens.  

 

[Chris Elkerton]

Hey Rupert,

Good work! Thanks for sharing. Glad to see you got yourself a lens.
Shooting handheld in a car, especially at long focal lengths is a real nightmare! You did pretty well with it. What taking lenses were you using?

Love the idea of anamorphic time lapses. The car footage and the day time lapses are nice. Like you say the car stuff is shaky no getting away from it. You might look at stabilising it maybe.

When you get the camera on the sticks there are some really nice shots, I wanted to see more of that. :)

The sunset lapses are beautiful. The night stuff is amazing! I love the shots of the planes taking off.

[RupertPupkin]

Thanks for the feedback, Chris, I appreciate it.

 

For taking lenses I used all Pre-AI Nikkor lenses.  I think the very last shot, the weird driving timelapse was with the Helios 44-2, but everything else was Nikkor.  The stuff in the car I'm almost 100% positive was all the Nikkor-H 85mm F1.8, mostly stopped down but there are a fair amount of shots that are wide open when the sun goes down a little. 

 

I did try to stabablize it a bit, unfortunately the movements were too much and I would have had to blow the picture up a little too big, and ones where I didn't have to blow it up too much, there were weird artifacts and morphing from the shutter I think, blurred movement where there shouldn't have been.

 

The sunset and clips looking down at the beach were either with the 105mm F2.5 or the 135mm F3.5.  The timelapses of the rocks actually on the beach level were with the 50mm, very pleased with almost no vignetting.  I think the pier shots were with the 85mm, having a hard time recalling now haha.