GL2+DIY Redrock+Wide angle?

[Tatsuya Graham]

Hello. I have a gl2. Attached to my gl2, I have a diy redrock looking adapter with a 50mm minolta lens attached to it. My gl2 is capable of 16:9 "stretched mode" and I was wondering if I could also put a 49mm wide angle lens onto the 35mm lens to make it approx. 2.35:1

so it would be GL2(with 16:9 function on) + 35mm adapter +wide angle lens


Is that possible, or would i not have a focusable image or something?





Thanks,
Tatsuya Graham

[Joseph Stunzi]

In terms of using a wide angle adapter with a depth-of-focus-adapter... you should have no problems granted that you have the proper lens mount for your minolta lens.

However if you are filming in 16:9 with a wide angle lens.... you are going to get 16:9 footage.

For 2.51:1 footage - you need a anamorphic lens not a wide angle lens! Panasonic sells one of these for the HVX I know.

[Jack_Felis]

Well, the theory is that the anamorphic lens would mess with the 35mm adapter. I don't know of anybody who has tried, probably because of the price of the anamorphic adapter itself on top of the 35mm adapter. However, I have tried using the Panasonic anamorphic adapter on my HV20 for 2.35:1 and it does work very well. Still, it's harder to be sure that you're in focus with it and that's what concerns 35mm adapter users as the whole point behind a 35mm adapter is that you're getting selective focus on a cheap Mini-DV or HD(v) camera. The result is an already hard adjustment to keeping things in focus so adding the anamorphic adapter would throw another difficult focus element into the whole mix. Plus, on top of all of that, the anamorphic adapter is limited in what lenses you can use it with, remember, you have to use a lens that can accept no more than 72mm filter threads. Unless you're using a zoom and give up on your wide end a little bit, that basically leaves you with only a few lenses to work with. Also, you can't zoom into the anamorphic adapter too much or else you will zoom into the anamorphic adapter's inner optics and get blurry footage with unusable ugly streaking all over the place. Whether a prime lense, like an 85mm, is affected by this, I don't know.

But, like I said, I haven't seen or heard about anyone actually trying it. Who knows? It might work well.