Hdfilmmaker Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Has anyone encountered this setup/lens before? I bought this at a antique store for cheap. Thought I'd give it a try. It's very "distorted" in the highlights or "cloudy". I tried to shoot with UV filter and then with ND's still there. Anyone come across this and what did they do to get rid? Is there a reliable post function? If it can work it'd be a good "eng" type lens for some of the documentary shooting we do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majoraxis Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I have a Fujinon-TV Z 16-160 f1.8 - I tried it my BMCC with my thinest M4/3 mount and it was almost able to get to infinity, but not quite. Mine was not cloudy. There is the question of whether it was designed to go through a prism so will it have coma and haze wide open and that did not seem to be the case with my example, unlike with my B-4 lens which are cloudy wide open (without the 2x extender and stopped down a bit). Does it clear up when stopped down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hdfilmmaker Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 It's only cloudy wide open. I reset the lens to the b4 adapter and to be honest it seems to be working fine now. This lens doesn't have a doubler. I don't know where to get one if it needed it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majoraxis Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 The TV-Z lens I have is c-mount so I believe it is from a different series than what you have - even though they share the same markings. I located some TV-Z lens on eBay and they are typically B4 lenses which are cloudy wide open at the wide end unless you are shooting through a prism to a 3 chip sensor block. There are optical adapters to fix the coma issue, but they are expensive or require you to purchase a black magic pl mount camera and black magic b4 (optical) adapter. It would be worth adapting an HD broadcast lens to a black magic camera if you want the type of control a broadcast zoom lens offers and are OK with 1080p unless the lens you have has the 2x extender on it that will allow for a larger imager circle as the expense of some image quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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