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Caption: I was expecting raw meat but I got crappy a ProRes sausage instead!

ever wondered what leica or cooke taylor hobson could do if they made something like the tokina achromatic diopter.   well in about 3 weeks i should have the finest close up ever. 82mm doublet +0.25 classic single coated optics using ohara and schott germany glass. way superior than the tokina +0.4 optimised for 5d size sensor using iscorama,cooke speed panchro and leica r as the set up. this close up will be a fine match for the finest most expensive high end new or old optics.     anyone who thinks these new generation anamorphics from letus and slr magic will not need a double element close optics is clearly not very sharp : ) a simple test on those 2 new china lens shot at f1.8 or even f2.8  with an achromatic doublet and without should make things clear. these new anamorphics are single element  optics just like the century and the panasonic optics. maybe revised and improved  but still single element.. sometin got a give somewhere in the system.   as we all understand stopping optics down to f4-5.6 clears up the image and makes even poor optics look sweet. achromatic correction is kind of cool and if you like the new anamorphic lens concepts coming sticking a decent bit of double element glass in front of bad single element can only help A 3 cheers for Chester Moore Hall the man that came up with the concept of bending light ray achromatic correction.

Camera supplied by CVP who came through and fulfilled my pre-order from NAB in early April. Personal note: I was saddened to learn of the death of CEO Phil Baxter earlier this month and in Phil's memory a fund has been set up which will donate a pot of cash to the Make A Wish Foundation UK charity. This charity helps fund memorable experiences for young people fighting life threatening illnesses. Donate here even just a small amount helps those kids. The Blackmagic Pocket Camera is finally at EOSHD HQ, and comes from one of the first new batches to ship since the white orb sensor calibration issue was resolved. Have they fixed it? Let's not get too caught up in things like that for the moment. For me this camera is all about the lenses. I've been a Micro Four Thirds shooter since day one with the G1 back in 2008. This was the first camera to tempt me away from Canon and over the last 5 years I've been building a rather ridiculously obsessive collection of Micro Four Thirds glass for my GH1, GH2 and lately the GH3, as well as c-mount glass. The best c-mount glass is mainly vintage Super 16mm from the 60's and 70's. Classics like the Kern Switar 26mm F1.1 for instance, which an ex-BBC cinematographer once described to me as being "made by spacemen" such was the performance before the technological era of computer assisted optics design.   [url=http://www.eoshd.com/content/11233/blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-first-impressions]Read the full article here[/url]

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Obvious choice in new lenses is the Rokinon 85mm IMO, in either photo or cine versions. Both versions are running under 300. You might be able to get something decent used for less though.