Stuart Hooper

Awesome, looking forward to seeing results! Thing isn't as scary, without the mattebox!

Just found this which had eluded my googling and Vimeoing before with some careful digging on twitter. Wide shots are on the Anamorphx. Timothy Cirvan has hands one and someone I interacted with via Letus that claims to be testing the GH4 has and loves the AnamophX as well...seems out there and liked just not a lot of footage floating around...

Understood and, thank you. I was sensing that was the situation but good to confirm. Agreed on 5D3 ML. Leaning towards a buy...although with the GH '4k' supposedly coming out tomorrow (I'm a lumix guy) I wonder about the supposed 4k version of the Letus...*sigh* gear acquisition syndrome, haha...just want a damn cinema camera with a fast anamorphic zoom on it for cheap, haha, is that too much to ask?

Thank you for continuing to post tests, Procter. Seems to be it's not THAT easy to get in focus, but when it does, it's nice? Quite a bit of this footage has that slightly out of phase look of a focused taking lenses and slightly out adapter, to me. I liked this moment, a lot. Still on the fence, but getting closer.

Procter thank you a million times over. I think Burnet may have taken your comment a little harshly...while we know anamorphic lenses are going to decrease sharpness somewhat I think I understood what you meant and/or where you are coming from. I would not expect Macro close focus either, just hoping for regular close-ups. However your 2 second clip is impressive. (sharpness wise...just FYI I think you un-squeezed it too far) A little more of this and you'll have made Letus $2,700 bucks...please keep it up anything else you can share!

Thank you for this. If there is anything you need to facilitate more testing sooner than later please let me know. I've offered to pay for someone to rent this out in LA for a day to get more tests but have no takers. Really on the fence about the sharpness and functionality with close-up shots and having a hard time finding information online and Letus is very, very quiet.

I'd really like to know more as well. I need to upgrade from the LA7200 and I am ready to pull the trigger on something, but online results from the Letus have been lukewarm at best and there are weird rumours about the amount of squeeze shifting, etc. Images, samples and more thoughts would be lovely, and what you've posted is helpful for a start, makes me cautiously optimistic.

Does anyone know where a guide like this might be floating around for the MKII?  Having a good time finding one on the forums.  Thanks!

I wouldn't sell it, haha.

Exciting idea.  I contacted Duclos a few months back about a rehousing and they declined to take it though I indicated price wasn't a real problem.  (I've got a producer who likes to shoot on his GH3 + 12-35 and LA7200 and doesn't really care what needs to be done to make the setup even better, but doesn't want to go to cumbersome manual primes for the money)   I don't know if it's because they have 'better' things to do or if it's particularly challenging, but they turned me down.

Thanks for putting a thoughtful review into the wild, I feel like this camera has not been as explored in depth online as many others have.   I've got to disagree on handling and battery life...I used it on an extremely grueling shoot last Friday after a few days of half assed testing and thing was a joy.  Got heavy in the hand by midnight but other than that...I popped an adhesive z-finder frame on it and just shot...I guess I love the DSLR form factor, so it depends on what your tastes are.  Battery seemed really healthy, and with only two I was able to rotate, never going under half full all day long.   I was also amazed at the stills I could pull from the 4K stream, especially at 100 shutter which I cheated up to now and then without affecting my love for the video image.  Still too expensive, not something I can see justifying for either corporate business in Panama or spending the money for cinema applications that could be spent on talent, food, transportation, etc, but I do wish one of these cameras would just fall in my lap, it'd be the only thing I'd shoot on for the next year or so anyways.

I've been posting around the net to try and get someone with a La7200 to see where vignetting starts on the 12-35. We know the 14-140 is around 16m, but it works at 12mm on the Olympus, so I've got my fingers crossed, even though it's a zoom.