Andrew Reid

The D7200 isn't worth waiting for or the extra money, looks like a very tiny incremental change. And 1080/60p only in 1.3x / lack of articulated screen makes it worse than D5300!

I didn't have the time to read the 16 page thread on something I didn't yet even own. Although I did mention I'd be using it with my Kowa 8Z in just about every email to you, with not a single correction from you until after it arrived. And as late as the 30th Jan was ready to "dust it off" on your advice... Not very nice to blame me for being unprofessional and for not having the right anamorphic to fit it. You were supposed to send the FM with the Cinelux, which is what I was expecting to review... pretty impossible otherwise. That's what you said would happen! The blog certainly isn't a market, although sometimes it feels like one. ​Mindaugas at the Anamorphic Shop is first to admit the project has benefited from this forum and my members... Yet you still cannot find within yourselves the gratitude to properly inform me, to not mislead me, or even to send me the proper kit so that the review is not impossible.

​My firm advice is to wait for better solutions. We're all hungry and curious for better lenses, especially 2x. I've always thought from the moment I got my Kowa 4 years ago, "if only". If only it would be a single focus anamorphic. The image is just so wonderful. I know for a fact better anamorphic solutions are on the way.... wait and see. Cosmio, the reason the thread stays is that I am not here to act as a marketing platform. You can't just suddenly delete everyone's contribution to the thread, because some people don't praise the product. Yes I personally found it "not good enough" quite simply and nor the service or communication. That's up to you to improve, not us. We are not paying for your R&D or market research. We are filmmakers who just want to get the look of anamorphic. I was interested like many in the FM, willing to take the time to explore it. That you on your part and at the Anamorphic Shop in Latvia didn't bother to provide the full kit, speaks poorly of the service aspect. If you can't even service EOSHD, what hope does a 'normal' customer have?

Does it actually work?

Also a sense of humour is very important in today's world.

The irony is that you have more potential to make money as an amateur freed of 'industry dogma' today than as a work-a-day pro like Tim Naylor. All it takes is talent, imagination and the internet. I agree with Oliver when it comes to clients, they are there for the vision and their understanding is based on ideas rather than on some obscure camera technicality. That's our job - to put the two together to = reality. The FS7 has hit the rental shops in a big way in Berlin. Many professional filmmakers using them straight away. The day rate is approaching 300 euros because demand is outstripping demand until they can stock up. That's nearly 3x more than a C300, yet it retails for half the price of one. My advice to any budding filmmakers is to avoid the established commercial industry altogether and go online. Base your services online as that is the future. You can go and invest £5k in a FS7, rent it out and establish a production studio purely from your living room without ever leaving the house, because the internet really is that powerful, a new 'universe' which we live in whether we like it or not, or even understand it or not (the dinosaurs don't!)

The thread stays.

Despite the lens being a loan, if I were a paying customer I'd be asking for my money back because Cosimo at no point before the lens shipped did you tell me the Kowa wouldn't work. I have all the emails and PMs. You kept this quiet until after the demo unit arrived on the 7th. Again it's a good job I didn't pay for it, because I would have had a bad surprise there. I was willing to help, like I am with all new anamorphic solutions, I want to try them and if they are any good help get the word out. Already this thread has had 20,000 views. Problem is the FM is not very good and I feel deceived. Also you said it would ship with the Schneider originally. If nobody at Anamorphic Shop in Latvia can be bothered to send a fully functional demo unit, then I can't review it. Simple logic really. What do you expect me to do, risk the £500 Kowa or buy a £500 Schneider myself which would be even more useless to me after I send the loan FM back!?!? Logic doesn't stack up does it!? Like I say I was willing to do the review but you shipped an incomplete kit with just the FM and no anamorphic, didn't ship any instructions and wasn't clear about which lenses I needed to use until after it plonked down on my desk in Berlin. Based on this mess I think you'd be the first to admit Cosimo that a bit more effort and a bit less hyperbole was needed to make this task of a review a bit less impossible.

It's just been a big heap of frustration from the get go I'm afraid. How can you ship it with no instructions? I have the Proskar so tried that. I had to stop down to F8 just to get a usable image. I'll return the lens. It's not worth the trouble.

​Currently it's due April / May.

Just did some research and the Iscorama's single focus mechanism patent is expired. Hopefully this will lead to some creativity on the part of new anamorphic designs.

An update from me on the FM! A demo unit arrived a week or so ago, and I was lead to believe by Cosimo all along it would work with my Kowa 16H / 8Z. Actually the Kowa needs to be dismantled to fit as Hans Punk showed. I hadn't realised this and didn't want to risk my Kowa, so I asked Anamorphic Shop for a loan of the right anamorphic to use with the FM so we could do the review. Unfortunately I got a sharp reply back with nothing but a return postal address to send back the FM. So unfortunately there will be no review and no footage from me.

​They were all strays, and there were some stray hipsters there too, all wondering around without their flexibikes holding their paws up. Poverty striken place is Berlin. Sometimes the local hound comes to take the hipsters AND the dogs away all at once. The poor pup with it's paw up is probably dead by now, turned into cereal for Angela Merkel or something

​Nope.

Again depends on the filmmaker and their intentions. It's a valid form of filmmaking in my book and if we went by what your post implies Rudolf we wouldn't have masterpieces like this... Koyaanisqatsi (trailer): http://youtu.be/PirH8PADDgQ

  Read the full article - http://www.eoshd.com/2015/02/dog-schidt-optiks-ff58-flare-factory-58-pl-mount-review/

​They *HAVE* been making the processing, pipeline, encoding, CFA you idiot!! Can anyone in the class room of dummies put their hand up and tell me what AJA do aside from cameras!? Clue, it's the same type of thing as Blackmagic before they ended up in the camera business!!

As long as it's from a respectful distance with respectful intentions there's nothing moral about it, no issues. The French are pretty relaxed about this kind of thing and in a city like Paris they are used to tourists with small cameras. Berlin where I shoot couldn't be any more different, it's hell. Full of self righteous idiots who think they have the right to privacy in the streets like it is their fucking bedroom. I have had countless nasty incidents and harsh stares from people who weren't even in the shot! It's like trying to capture atmosphere in a lion cage. I enjoyed the good old days of EOSHD taking my camera around Taipei as in Asia they are perfectly friendly towards you.

​Precisely.

It's a well known fact This is the sensor - http://www.cmosis.com/products/standard_products/cmv12000 Now... in the words of Charlie Brooker - go away.

What I meant was that innovation was dying. It's clear they're bringing nothing interesting that's innovative or eye catching enough for a reader poll on the largest stills photographic sites on the entire internet.

http://www.eoshd.com/2015/02/maestro-4k-cinema-camera-powered-by-nvidia-with-h-265-codec/

​All legacy 3+ year old products. I'm talking about new sales.

​What features?

Jimmy you have 94 posts worth of self expression to your record on this site, and I have 5 years of experience and thousands of blog posts. So if you're going to criticise me for lacking research, at least do so from a position of strength, otherwise you just look like another Canon fan boy. Very few Canon users I know are satisfied with how little they have brought to the plate in DSLR video or for stills in the last 2 years.