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I've seen a steady interest in the 'soap bubble effect' growing on the vintage lens forums and on Flickr. The regular suggestions I see to get this effect is a triplet design, and meyer seems to be mentioned before any other. Leading to crazy prices being paid for rather poor lenses. it should be considered that the effect is usually a result of the shooting techinque rather than the lens itself. most of the subjects seem to be macro shots of bugs or toadstools with a dynamic background just after it has rained. for example, the picture above wouldn't exhibit the bubble effect if the bug wasn;t infront of water. I think even if someone were to buy the gold standard meyer bubble lens, they'd still only see this effect when shooting with lots of extension tubes at very high magnification. just about any medium tele lens from the 1960's will give this effect. you want old lenses with coatings with little to no apparent colour to them. my personal favourite for this effect is a late 1950's zeiss jena biotar 58mm - coatings are almost non existent so light source bokeh has a glow.

Good point, but what cinched the deal was the ability to use c-mount lenses with it. I got the camera today, only had a few minutes to mess with it, but the conversion was twice as quick as the nx500, which is precisely what I was looking for and the image quality is beautiful. Also, I really want a camera with a mic input for this web series. For some reason though, the cinelike profiles are greyed out, I probably have to enable something to have access to them. I used the kit lens and it actually isn't that bad, but I will probably sell it to bring the cost down even further. Sorry, that response was all over the place. I'm exhausted from Thanksgiving festivities.

Cooke lens? it's on sale?

Hello! I've got a project where the aesthetic of "soap bubble bokeh" is the way to go. I'm very, very aware of the Trioplan 100mm and it's sharp rise in value. At this moment in time, I can't justify buying one of these on eBay for a single project (even though i want one for keeps). Does anybody recommend a more "budget" alternative?

Panasonic G7, Canon T6i, Nikon D3300, or Sony A5100. All are great entry level cameras that take great stills and competent video for the price.

How fast is the AF and how much hunting is there? And does the x0.71 booster have the same speed? Does the AF speed vary among different m43 cameras?

Hi Andrew It appears you decided to keep the Sony a7s 11 over the A7R 11 is that correct, and if so briefly why?

This was inevitable... We are at/past the point of clear, definable quality increases... Now it is going to be more and more down to lighting, composition, grading etc to create that wow factor in image quality.

All the Meyer-Optik lenses produce great round/soap bokeh - the Troplan is the king. Its a bit like the Helios 40-2 is the king of swirly bokeh for the Russain lenses, but the Helios 44-2 also produces swirly bokeh. I got some really good soapy Bokeh from the Lydith 30mm f3.5 recently & the Orestor 100mm f2.8 is an amazing lens - the 135mm Orestor is known as the Bokeh Monster!

Nice! I saw the next samples on http://www.rugift.com/helios-40-2-85mm-f15-lens-nikon-new-design.htm . Looks pretty epic. But it's quite a specialty lens which you can't just go and use on everything and it's not exactly priced like some of the other vintage roughly similar character ones that perhaps are in the sub-100 bucks range. So I haven't pulled the trigger yet myself. You can also try to find an Orestor f/2.8 100 or 135mm.

Get an ND filter that is smaller than the filter thread of the lens (the size will be an artistic decision, but it must be smaller), take the glass out and glue it somehow to an UV filter that threads into the lens. This should give something soap bubble like, you have to find a way of glueing the filter with no residues (look for tutorials about recementing lenses). That's my idea

FWIW, that film looked like absolute crap on IMAX. I always considered a hipster to be someone ignorant that professes an unearned expertise. Basically all looks, no substance. Superficial. I'd say that Quentin is a legit cinephile that is also somewhat accomplished at this point, yes?

Personally I tend to overexpose to protect the highlights - which aren't great on the NX1. But the shadows tend to retain more info than on other cameras (i.e GH4).

Totally, Having a white sky/bright sky, totally bring down the quality of the NX1, it really "shines" when its darker, and then fix it in post if you need it. Coming from a canon, im still getting used to it, but the more I use it, the more I love it, every single frame of a video can be a photograph.