cooking anamorphic

[enny]

Hi guys i have bausch and lomb anamorphic i will be buying some close up fuilkters soon but what is your openion on hiacking the lens like in this video https://vimeo.com/35614161 to get close up shoots is this advisable

 

Thanks

 

[Gábor Ember]

Very hard to align this way I think and you would still need to shade it. I think this is very tricky. You'll be better off with bellows than cloth.

Otherwise the method is good. Close focus works like that.

[silvertonesx24]

I did this once with an LA7200. I was able to get close focus, but as Gabor said keeping it aligned is tricky.

[Gábor Ember]

Also I think you will be better off with diopters because if you do close focus by moving the front glass closer to the rear glass you will change the squeeze factor. Probably it will be reduced from 2x to 1.5x or so. If you use diopter the front and rear part can be farther away from each other thus the squeeze remains around the original value.

[QuickHitRecord]

At the same time, this presents an interesting optical setup that is still somewhat uncharted. If it is a signature anamorphic "look" that you are after, not too many people are going through the trouble of doing this.