Mid Format Adapter from Adorama "ProOptic" Hot Set up???

I have some HD footage of the Pro optic adapter, people have been asking for HD footage. I shot with a 30mm fisheye as well as an 80mm F/1.8. I am having problems posting it on Vimeo. I've had problems with the compression from Final cut. Does anyone have the proper settings for posting on Vimeo also tried to post it on Utube but the quality was so bad that I removed it.

Winston
 
Theres a few options...

1.) buy a website and host a zipped compressed or even better, uncompressed file, which lots of people would be interested in downloading.

2.) use one of those file transfer sites.

3.) I don't think anyone is interested in Vimeo for critical analysis BUT, Vimeo WILL let you download source files if you give the public permission. Simply upload an uncompressed animation file 500 MB or smaller to Vimeo. We can see the compressed one, but the original file will be available for download......

Looking forward to seeing this test.
 
Winston Vargas said:
I have some HD footage of the Pro optic adapter, people have been asking for HD footage. I shot with a 30mm fisheye as well as an 80mm F/1.8. I am having problems posting it on Vimeo. I've had problems with the compression from Final cut. Does anyone have the proper settings for posting on Vimeo also tried to post it on Utube but the quality was so bad that I removed it.

Winston
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You can see footage with the Canon HV20 and the Pro Optic adapter on www.vimeo.com/1614485
 
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Upload m2t files so there in the full 1929x1080 original file. This would be the best way for everyone including myself to see the full scope of your adapters performance.


Wish I could help you with Vimeo, however I don't know how it works..



Winston Vargas said:
I have some HD footage of the Pro optic adapter, people have been asking for HD footage. I shot with a 30mm fisheye as well as an 80mm F/1.8. I am having problems posting it on Vimeo. I've had problems with the compression from Final cut. Does anyone have the proper settings for posting on Vimeo also tried to post it on Utube but the quality was so bad that I removed it.

Winston
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Charlie Anderson said:
In regards to video it is extremely slow! I hesitate to use my 2.8 lenses unless I'm either shooting outside or if I have the lights to pump out the power. A 2.8 lens requires a heck of a lot more light than a 1.4 AND you're wide open as opposed to a 1.4 at 2.8 where you're 2 stops closed. I never try to shoot with any lens wide open, you lose a heck of a lot of sharpness when you do so.

If you can do it man by all means go for it, another adapter with a new format is all in the works. I've never worked with medium format lenses before so I have no clue as to how they perform.
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As far as working with medium format lenses ask any professional photographer about the Hasselblad cameras with Zeiss lenses, Mamiya, Contax, Bronica, Pentax, Fuji, Rolleiflex, all medium format cameras. There was a time when photographers look down at 35mm because it wa too small. I also remenmber the time when filmmakers hated 16mm because it was not a prefessional format, much too small to do any serious work. Nikon lenses were very popular in the 60's and 70's and we were using them religiously on 16mm Bolex and Eclair motion picture cameras because you use the center of the lens which is the sharpest part of the lens. The same applies to using medium format lenses. For the last 15 years since digital video started we have been trying to get video to be a bit softer. I've had TV personalities asking for filtration to soften their image because the image is too sharp.. and now with Hi def everyone wants to see every single detail except the people in front of the camera.

The idea of the adapters is not only for depth of field control it's also for film like softness (which is not out of focus). To see the difference, look at a live TV shot on a 50 inch screen and compare it to a film and see which is more pleasant to the eye. Nothing worst than a news reader that looks like she has been drawn on photoshop with all her makeup showing.. That's what we are trying to get away from.
 
I was blown away, when I was bolting the 2.8 Zeiss middel format lens on the Letus. I was used to Nikon and Petri 1.4 and 1.7 lenses and expected to need much more light with that 2.8.

No Sir! I turned the internal light meter in the HVX on, amed it at the same spot and compared the fast 35mm lenses to the Zeiss.

35mm = 35%-38%

and.....

tadaaa....

Zeiss 32%!

Woahhh! Somehow the bigger diameter of the glass seems to let more light in than the sheer numbers say.

Frank
 
Kohli, my whole Timefest entry was shot on Zeiss middel format lenses from the 60s and 70s - when they made the best glass ever in Jena - on a LEX if that is any halp.

(isn`t that a nice try to make you watch my film?)

Frank
 
Oh really? Did you use the 645 -> EOS route?

It's surprising, to me, what you say about the light being passed through the 645. Makes me want to try two or three out just to see if they're worth owning for separate projects.
 
Jon Neely said:
I agree, Maybe this adapter would be great for mostly outdoor shoots, or someone with a lot of lights, you would think they would come out with the Nikon,pentex, eos, ect... mounts soon for the sake of sales of there product.


Jon
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Check out www.youtube.com/vargas095 an check out the 645 adapter video, you'll the medium format adapter, which is now the multi format adapter.. Nikon or Canon and Mamiya 645 if you want.
 
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