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G6? Very similar image to GH3 but with focus peaking and good EVF. Works beautifully with Speedbooster and manual glass. The more I use the G6 the more I love it ...

Don't listen to the low-squeeze heretics, 2X squeeze is where it's at :-) I'm really excited, but I need to see how well it holds up at wider apertures, with shallower DOF, when pulling focus. Could this be adapted to other projection anamorphics? If so, the Kowa 8Z/16-H is IMO the best 2X out there. It goes the widest, and is very clean and sharp. Also, if you can, a more professional-looking clamp/rod riser setup would be awesome. I'm not saying yours is bad, but I'd definitely drop a couple hundred dollars extra for a premium setup. I've always thought that it'd be cool to have the anamorphic mounted to the rods on its own riser, with a nifty little elastic drawstring cloth at the back that goes around the front of the "taking" lens to block out light. Also, PM me if you want advice on electronic follow focus devices. I've sunk around $1K into building a wireless follow focus from scratch, so I've got some experience.

Actually if you put a smaller aperture in front of the lens and not too far away, it will act like stopping down. So it doesn't only take away light transmission, it also widens the dof. You can try this out. Let's see what John comes up with, he got the guts to do it.

Nice project John. Though i am a bit hesitant to believe your focus system is miles away from the patented Isco system... :ph34r: Your stills look pretty good, but the video sample doesnt seem to show very much of that anamorphic quality we all want due to the fact that the shots dont seem to show any shallow dof or any proper focus pulls. What aperture was your zoom set to? I was surprised that even at 70-200 there was little infocus/defocus separation. If I went out with my nex5n, a 135mm f4 and an iscorama the depth of field would be razor thin compared to what i am seeing here. When you put these rather costly and heavy £3000 units up against a smaller, more compact £2000 iscorama36, (or £3000 vandiemen rehoused version!), be sure to show the capabilities between the two on full frame, with an 85mm f1.4 wide open. This is the only way you'll be able to properly show the capabilities against the benchmark 'rama, which will deliver sterling results even wide open!. I love the look from 2x anamorphics but I think the main issue your anamorphics will struggle with when being put up against an iscorama 1.5x is the loss of resolution from having to crop away so much from the sides. I believe selecting a higher spec Kowa 35 (1.5 or 1.75) would have been a better choice for usability in our current climate where resolution is very important. Very few people have access to budgets to rent an Alexa Studio with its 4 perf sensor.

Just like the previous post from Ben said. Do you have any idea how much time was spent developing your product? If you feel it's unethical to differentiate products solely based on software, then that means you feel that software has no value. Software is intellectual property that breathes life into the silicon your camera is made up of. Also look at it this way, do you have any idea how expensive it would be to bring a product to market without the substantial leveraging of previous hardware? The price of the F55 was set at is based off of the quantity of F5 units they hope to sell so they can leverage quantity buying power (+20 points of cream for their troubles). In other words, if they couldn't make the low end camera off of the high end one, they would have never made the high end one, because there's just not enough buyers to get an ROI. Companies do this all the time, they just aren't stupid enough to leave the workaround accessible in cleartext!