Brevis 35mm Adapter example.

[Deano]

Hi All,

I shot the opening scene of my indi feature with the brevis 35mm adapter. I chose the brevis for it's low light ability, bokeh and the fact that it doesn't have to be strapped to rails which makes it extremely versitile when mounting to the Kessler Crane and Indislider.

Great product, really recomend it.

http://www.vimeo.com/3778041

In this scene I shot mostly with a super wide 18mm NonAI Nikon lens which vignetted quite a bit but that's because the hvx was fully open and I liked the dreamy quality. Even though it's a superwide lens having the brevis really added to the look and really separated the 'wood from the trees' : )

Thanks

Dean

[ryvac]

wow...that was like a feature film. (opening)
how was the effects done?
super cool!

[astigmatic]

very nice! um ryvac, I want my Brevis back now, haha..

[Deano]

Sweet thank you!

I'm an inferno artist so I added the crows, sticks, dust, smoke, leaves, sunrise, collapsing rocks and the mine all in post. I really loved the indislider, it's incredibly hard to get a sense of scale with the redwoods, they're massive so having a slight perspective shift really helped. The brevis really helped since it's so dark in the forest, any other adapter would've been impossible with my setup.

Thanks again, tell al your friends I'm trying to build the audience - if you want to be added to the newsletter please send your email to me at dean@yurke.com

Thanks again!

Dean.

[Cools]

Very nice! In addition to the added VFX, I really liked the music. Pulled you right into the story.

[Deano]

Excellent! I grew up on John Carpenter and Dario Argento films so I really love that eighties feel. I mixed it all in soundtrack pro using M-audio and Acid loops. Sounds much better with the subwoofer cranked up especially when that first crow swoops in : )
It's amazing the tools available to the indi-filmakers today, hallelujah!

[ryvac]

so which software did you use to creat the CG? it looks realistic!



very nice! um ryvac, I want my Brevis back now, haha..
haha I know...
not only the Brevis, but the lenses too. they are just amazing.:)
Man, I need to shoot something now...

[PaPa]

Fantastic cinematography. Great exposure and i was really really impressed with the special effects. Am very curious to learn that kind of tool. Thank you very much for sharing your video!

One thing that really bothered me was the softness of the edges. Especially on the top right, it is very noticeable throughout the entire thing. Is this the adapter or some effect you added?

[Dennis Wood]

Dean, great clip and thanks for the kind words regarding the Brevis. Just curious which 18mm (and speed) you were using. I'm a huge wide angle lens fan meaning we've tested quite a few. If you get a chance to try out the Nikon 17-35 f2.8 zoom on your adapter...do it. It provides a usable frame width from your adapter of nearly 40mm which means you're getting the FOV of a 15mm lens :-) It's also very sharp wide edge to edge even used wide open. My single biggest complaint with regard to most wide angle lenses is the edge softness when used at wide open apertures...however that Nikon zoom is awesome at f2.8.

I keyed off your crane comments right away as we're about to release a video showing the 1080p HG21 (tiny cam) on our Brevis non-flipped with no achromat. In other words, under 2lbs with the camera and 35mm lens. It's mounted to our crane as I type this and equipped with our remote focus controller. We'll be showing you crane shots that go from 17mm infinity focus (15mm effective FOV) to close focus at 3 inches from the lens.

I still get stoked up about this stuff :-)

[Deano]

ryvac - I used discreet logics inferno - but you could do most of it in shake or after effects

PaPa and Dennis - yeah the distortion and chromatic aberration is caused more by the lens being wide open and me zooming out as far as possible on the adapter than the brevis. It's so dark in the forest that everything is wide open and the hvx is sharpest above f5.6. And those redwoods are so incredibly tall it takes the widest lens possible to begin to capture their majesty.

I'm so wide that I'm using coverage outside of the 35mm area so the lens isn't designed to be that wide hence the batwing effect. I actually did a version where I corrected the aberration, vignetting and distortion in inferno but you know what, it lost it's sense of scale and looked less dreamy. We're kind of programed to expect vignetting for massive objects, it's that big we can't take it all in.

Also I'm using a very early Brevis #291 it's not mp1 or 2 and doesn't use the flip which I'm sure corrects a lot of this also the lens is a Nikon 18mm non-ai f3.5 from probably the eighties.

I posted this in the camera support page too for my reaction to the Kessler Crane and indislider (both of which i love too) follow up there Dennis so users can get an idea of what your crane will be like.

Thanks guys, please pass my video on to anyone you think might like it.

Dean