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  Horse shit.

Not the jar way - the focus ring part with the ribbing and printed focus scale is a solid part. you need to remove the the ring (with the "isco-gottingen iscorama anamorphot 1.5 - 36" printed on it) on the inside of the 72mm thread. as you twist it, it unthreads from the same thread as you would attach diopters. you cannot physically grasp the ring due to it being recessed into the thread so you need to press against it while trying to twist it at the same time - in the same direction you would untwist a diopter from the 72mm thread. QuickHitRecord had to use some rubber gloves in order to allow him to spin the ring - otherwise there isnt enough friction. mine came away slowly by hand, but it would have been quicker if I had used some rubber gloves. Make sure you mask off the front element with some masking tape to be sure you dont scratch the element.

Scroll to the bottom of the article for the Hobbit.   http://intentious.com/2012/12/11/the-soap-opera-effect-why-movies-look-bad-in-hd-smart-lcd-tvs/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-33620_3-57410231-278/the-soap-opera-effect-when-your-tv-tries-to-be-smarter-than-you/

During my second, and last, stint at Sony Pictures Imageworks my desk was at the end of a floor within earshot of an executive's assistant's desk and could hear into his office if the door was open.  I'd wear my headphones even without listening to music just so I wouldn't have to listen to some of the delusional conversations or 1/2 of a phone call that would leak out of there all day long.   First time around my suite-mates were both working on Polar Express and for my second term I got to watch them  (by them I mean Zemekis and Sony) force-feed the mocap method to the director of Monster House.  He wanted to do it as CG characters but animated in stop-motion style.  Would have been so much better.  He was just, of course, happy to be directing a feature having been given the opportunity based on his short film.  Sad.

  Where I disagree with your article is your letting Jackson off the hook.  The Hobbit, like King Kong, like the LOTR trilogy are not the product of corporate film making, whether they foot the bill or not.  There is no influence, no choice, no direction that isn't pure Jackson.  His supervisors, producers, etc. are figure heads even.   He's making the films he wanted to make the way he wanted to make them.  Like Lucas.  Like Cameron.    With this in mind the problems with the action sequences and animated hordes are not the result of any deficiency in the armies of people it took to create them.  Or have we all forgotten all the boring, repetitive chase sequences in King Kong.  110% of this is Peter Jackson.  Just like the self-mutilation of the Star Wars saga by Lucas, this is an "auteur" with total control, no limits and no one telling them "no."     The artists that worked night and day, more often than not seven days a week, for months (or years, in the case of Cameron and Avatar) on end, are execution.  They're doing their job, often at the expense of their own health, their families and any regard for anything other than the film.  In the case of filmmakers like Peter Jackson and James Cameron or George Lucas there's also the masochistic reality of these people pushing themselves even further, allowing themselves to be exploited even more than usual, due to their futile idol worship.     I used to be one of them.   These filmmakers learned from the mistake of Francis Ford Copolla who was only compelled to return from the Philipines and eventually complete Apocalypse Now with the threat of the destruction of the negative he'd already shot.  With these guys,  there is no outside influence, no tampering, no limits and like Kurtz going off into Cambodia, no method, only madness.     edit: re-reading several posts I've made on this subject I'm gonna try to make this one my last.  I just hate the negativity it brings out of me.  You'd think I was talking about the GOP or whalers, lol.  I'm gonna try to concentrate on positive stuff and enjoy the anamorphic discussions which was what brought me to this forum in the first place.

We live in a new world order driven by unthinking godless consumerism, where idiots consume massive amounts and vast industries produce shlock for them.   The idiot industries are incredibly powerful and our future cultural direction will mostly be defined by idiocy, mediocrity and stupidity on a grand scale.   If you look at social changes around the world, the big growth industries are related to serving idiots.