Caleb Genheimer

Still so glad I don't have L glass. Don't get me wrong . . . it is great for stills on a Canon DSLR, but for video I've found that fly-by-wire focusing is near impossibly impractical for me personally. A nice Sony video full frame DSLR would be awesome. I love their products, just waiting for the right one, really. I've shot with FS100 which is an awesome step-up from DSLR, and the NEX cameras give a big bang-for-buck. All they really need is a full frame mirorless FScam. I'd jump on that train right away. This could be the next best thing, though.

Oh, there's plenty coming soon. I've got a short film that will be in the can by the end of this week that is shot on this lens excepting one scene where I was in a tent and used a 24mm to get wider. I'll certainly throw up a link on this thread once it is edited and on Vimeo.

I have the Konica as well, and I love it. It is a pancake lens on the konica system, so it is relatively small and VERY light weight on the GH2. Canon FD lenses are of good optical quality, as are Tamron Adaptall-II lenses of which I have several. There are innumerable older lenses from various systems (Canon FD, Nikon Ai, etc.) that are all really great glass. The awesomeness of the GH2 is its ability to use these lenses thanks to a short flange distance. If you're really set on shallow DOF, make sure to get lenses faster than f2. I didn't pay much attention to maximum aperture when I started buying lenses, and I now find myself desiring shallower DOF than my f2.5 Tamrons can provide. Ultimately, however, the only lenses that will give you that "full frame 5D super-shallow-wide" look are the Voigt 25mm and 17.5mm f0.95 lenses. I would have a Voigtlander already if they had a longer focal length f0.95 in micro four thirds mount. 25mm is a bit too wide to play nice with my Kowa anamorphic.

Hi, all! Just thought I'd share some photographs that I took today with my Kowa 16-H, Mir-1B, Tokina ATX diopter, L.C.W. Fader ND MkII, Redstan clamp set and GH2. Its just a sandcastle, I'm trying out some "professional" sandcastle building techniques, and it is actually quite fun. I was extremely and pleasantly surprised at the image that came beaming through this lens combination. At 37mm, the Mir-1B is a perfect mate in terms of focal length for the Kowa 16-H, and as a lens, it is a Flektagon copy, so it distorts very little. My Kowa has decently thick flares, classic blue from the light source and a lighter aqua blue secondary flare. The older Russian glass of the Mir-1B splashes the Kowa horizontal flares with some very warm, Lomo-esque ovals and big, faint blue rings sometimes seen from Panavision.

wha- where did the picture go?

Yeah, I know. I've found my Kowa to be incredibly crisp and clear even without a diopter, so I'm not too worried. I am, however, trying to figure out how to use ND filters without killing all the flares.

RX100 casing would be cool, especially if you came up with some sort of anamorphic solution.

the general consensus on the la7200 is that it needs diopters to be sharp. stopping down can improve things a bit, but diopters do the best if you get good ones.

That's why I've got a Tokina Achromatic 0.4 diopter on the way from Redstan ;) Its a multi-element diopter that works to cut a lot of that junk.

Sure . . . give me a bit, my MBP is on the fritz. I just hope it isn't on its last leg.

Enjoy! Feedback more than welcome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUKW-pxCQ3o&feature=youtu.be

Nice. Looks Just about useable. The upper right corner has that light grey vignette that shows up when a light source is in frame shining at the lens. I've been brainstorming ways to get rid of it, some sort of matte black felt coating might do the trick. Darn, now I've gotta ave up for the Nokton  ;) I for one think this is pretty big news. The Kowa Bell and Howel/8-Z/16-H is useable down to 25mm, which his approximately "normal" on GH2. This makes them bested in this department only by the LA-7200 and perhaps the Iscorama, neither of which are 2X anamorphic adapters.

Really? I just stuck it in front of my Tamron Adaptall-2 24mm, and it didn't circle up all the way. In fact, it is borderline useable. I guess I should rent a Nokton and find out once I get my proper lens clamp.

Hi, all! I've recently obtained a wonderful Kowa 16-H, and I've discovered (to my delight) that it is in fact usable with as wide as a 28mm lens on GH2 as long as I'm cropping the sides off in post from 3.55:1 to 2.35:1 ratio. I've not yet tried my 24mm as my red stan adapter has yet to arrive, but I'm wondering if it might work that wide. Is there anyone with a Kowa Bell and Howell/16-H/8Z and a Voigtlander 25mm 0.95 that could test the two together? Andrew perhaps? I know that the anamorphic guide has max wide focal lengths for this anamorphic on FF, APSC and M4/3 sized sensors, but those focal length suggestions seem to be for full coverage of the sensor, which is not necessary when cropping the sides off the footage in post to 2.35:1. If by chance the Voigt works with Kowa, it could be a killer combo. Anyone know of any exceptionally impressive 28mm lenses?

Yeah, based on what I saw in my research about kowas, I wasn't expecting blue flares. But this is most definitely blue, and its not a blue light source, its a maglite.

This is with a Canon 28mm f2.8 nFD some VERY slight vignetting (crops out if you do 2.39:1). Enjoy. I did!

Andrew, seriously. It's killer awesome. try it out. The GH2 can totally pull it off with good intra footage, its such a sharp camera. Other cams with big piles of garbage in the shadows won't fare the same, the garbage will shine through. But the GH2 holds so much detail, this overtop of it is icing on the cake. It helps stretch softness of 1080p anamorphic stuff like a charm too. I'm not buying another camera for a long time now. This little trick made me so happy with the GH2.

This file was converted to ProRes422HQ via ClipWrap, then dropped into a 4000x1674 (2.39:1) sequence for the same codec settings as the clip. (my old copy of FCP only goes up to 4000, so no 4096, sorry.) I stretched the footage out from 2X, then scaled it up from 1080 to 1674 vertical (313X scale approx.) zoomed in to 100%, it is very obvious that the footage has been scaled both ways. Then the magic started. I dropped a 4679 × 3119 film grain PNG file in the track above the footage, scaled to 100% (pixel-to-pixel with my 4000x1674 frame). See for yourself, but I think this is pretty brilliant. The grain brings the footage right up into 4K. To my eyes, it appears as if it was shot at 4K, just with a softer lens or with a softening filter in the matte box.

THanks for the suggestions  ;D Unfortunately, I live in the backwoods of Northern Minnesota. Not much for any camera shops anywhere near. 

I'm sorry but this is getting very frustrating. None of the good anamorphics seem to be available for anything south of $1000. Am I just crazy, or is a Kowa 8Z not worth anywhere near that much? I really don't even want to bother with Sankor/Proskar etc. because I know I'll just wish they were wider. I mean, I know these are special lenses, but come on people . . . who's paying that much? You're crazy. *sigh* end rant.

In short . . . they just cropped. They shot spherical, so how else would they? Regardless, I thought it was well shot. I saw it in 3D last night and was pleasantly surprised to see a masterful use of deep DOF, which really made the 3D pop. There was shallow stuff too, mostly in character closeups, interior, during conversations and it wasn't distracting in 3D like shallow DOF often can be. I imagine it would hold up pretty good in the second dimension as well.

https://vimeo.com/42735440

I know everyone here is really into their anamorphic shooting, but what about projecting? At the end of the day, does anyone slap their Kowa onto a nice projector and just watch the footage that way, or does everyone just desqueeze in post?

It was Saturday before I realized what was going on, so a lot of houses were closed. Oh well, it all worked out, and I got to impress everyone with my understanding of mount distances  ;) Great product, it worked really well on my GH2.

[quote author=tttulio link=topic=738.msg5496#msg5496 date=1337434884] Great, They just finished it and it is now irrelevant as it is missing the BlackMagic Design Camera... [/quote] AHA! I see what you did there  ;D Gosh, they'll just have to make another one  ;)