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Yes my sweet baby Hypergonar on its Qioptiq ;)

Bolex Anamorphot on Sony A7 in DA HOUSE ! Next SLR Magic ! ;) Bolex-Anamorphot system Moller 16/32/1.5X on Sony A7 (with Nikon 50mm Serie E f1.8 + Novoflex adapter) Bolex-Anamorphot system Moller 16/32/1.5X on Sony A7 (with Nikon 50mm Serie E f1.8 + Novoflex adapter) baby Berthiot Hypergonar on Olympus OM-D E-M5 (with Qioptiq LINOS MeVis-C C-mount 35mm f1.6 + Metabones adapter)

Psst… I'm having an end of year clear out Where would we be without the end of the year and the impending doom that is Christmas? Enjoying summer? Revelling in the most fruitful year for filmmakers and camera geeks on record? I'd much rather 2013 just carried on! Alas the year is starting to wind down now for the Holidays and this seems like a good moment to look back at the most amazing (and not so amazing) events of 2013... Read the full article here

For sale my Carl Zeiss Anamorphot 63, 2x in fine & fully working condition. Price: only €270 Paypal shipped for a very fast sale. Lens is really great & the price even more. Just send me a pm if you need more photos. Regards, Yiannis.

met a guy today in soho. worked in commercials just came back from dubai. a travelogue type job budget was 300 thousand pounds. hawk anamorphics. he said he would like to direct and shoot some of his stuff cut the crew down from 30 or 40 so he can take lower budget interesting jobs. 200-250 thousand range. the rental on his job for hawks was 1800 ish they had to go back exactly on time cos they where going on a movie. he gets paid 4000-8000 pounds per shooting day plus a weekly wage from the production company. if he comes in under budget he and the producer get a bonus. he is looking for an anamorphic a high resolution one. no dis but maybe a couple of the buyers think nothing of the difference between 2000- and 6000 if they put it on the production budget for a commercial. if your lens rental is near enough 2k for 1 or 2 jobs the sums we are talking about are small change and in some cases the client is paying with the sale buried deep within the budget as some additional fee. regardless of whatever is said the iscorama is head and shoulders above everything else from f1.2 on down. and for folks who can add it into work costs the sums are modest. i believe in most cases under valued for a good one. i am not good at mathmaticks cannot even spell it. iscorama 54 was 1200 sterling in the 1990 the camera it was used on the best nizo or canon super 8 was 200-350. how many of you are shooting with lens that cost 3 or 4 x the value of your camera. i believe slr magic called the iscorama spectacular for a reason they should know they would of stripped it down. people have been talking of bubbles and collapse of iscorama price for 3 years. fact a moller 1.5x looks 10x better than any new sub 10k anamorphic the last one i saw went for 400 major bargain. analogue lovely ness in a satanic digital world. most of the thousands being made today is from scammers selling fake lens that they do not have. vintage optics well serviced will always be more interesting than any new stuff optical clowns today are mainly copying 80-100 year old lens recipes and sticking horrid coatings on them.

for me the ONE great thing of 2013 was ............the Pansonic G6 - suprise suprise !! I do like this camera it packs a huge punch in a very small light weight body with alot of features the gh2 never had.... .........roll on Pansonic 4k camera next year

On the slr magic : 2x is not commercial enough, when i tried to explain to a friend the beauty of 2x his reaction was "what am i going to do with this strip?" my reply was its like taking you to listen Maria Kallas and telling me "what is she yelling about" i think they opted for something that would appeal to more people, and its the bussiness thing to do. I am waiting for my first anamorphic and its 2X.. :wub:

Before you do, here's the footage shot from this lens

For me Great things of 2013 -Finally sold the GH3 and left the mft for good (maybe ill change back in 2015 when GH4K is out) -bought Canon 5D mk3 yay!! -Explore with fantastic ML -Learn a lot from EoSHD (Andrew + other members) -Komputerbay CF 1000x cards -Starting to post with RAW video -Got a vintage L Series 17-35 f2.8 + 28-70 f2.8mm Lenses -New beast computer -ordered 2x LP-E6 canon battery pack from ebay for 24 eur http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-x-LP-E6-Batteries-fr-Canon-EOS-5D-Mark-II-III-7D-6D-60D-60Da-BG-E6-Camera-Grip-/121213659140?ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:US:3160 Waiting for - L Canon 85mm F1.2L Mark I (if i get one ) :D - to get warmer that i can start some projects - samyang VDSLR KIT - MOVI (chinese version for bargain) :D Cheers

Best of luck on ebay...hope you have better luck with buyers than I have recently!

Not sure you question, but in general bit-depth is a computer (bits) + photo (depbth) lingo way of saying how wide the range in shading of any given color/brightness sampled be the electronic equipment. You can store 256 shades (or depth values) in an 8-bit memory slot (or byte). When working with Canon RAW, the camera saves each sensel/pixel as a 14-bit value. That would give you a range from 1 to 16,384. Once you save those values in smaller bit values you have to reduce the precision. I tried to explain the "precision" problem on the ML forum like so: One can think of it this way. You have a palette of 14 scales of gray. You need to convert them into 8 scales for something else. So 1-2 because 1, 3-4, become 2, 5-6 becomes 3, 7-8, becomes 4; 9-10, 5, 11-12, 6, 13-14, 7 (and we throw out the 8, for example) Let's say you have two gray colors in what you shot, and they are 2 and 6. You want to reduce the exposure by 1 (increase contrast). They were convered to 1 and 3, so now they become 0 and 2. You went from a 300% difference (in 14bit) to 200% (in 8bit). More importantly, you went from some gray 1, in 14bit, to no gray 0, in 8bit. What people don't understand, especially about H.264, is you can't just take 8 bit values and put them in a 14-bit space, for example, and get that 14bit precision again. Does this make sense? You seem to know your stuff, so maybe you're asking something else?

Some B-roll footage taken primarily with the Sigma 18-35 1.8, and some shots with the Canon 100mm 2.8 L macro as well.

the rumour is not a rumour it is fact 50 units sold in the 1980s made up from old optics. the lens where sold with rather nasty plastic 8mm film cameras 25 english pounds for the camera and the lens i think mine cost new from the cine shop.