Bill__Turner
Well-known member
Re: 2.35 ???
The 1.78X or thereabouts Anamorphic lenses were almost undoubtedly made for a projection application. While the quality might be quite good the problem will almost certainly be severe vignetting at wide angle.
A few years ago a customer brought in a couple 1.75X Kowa brand units (he said he purchased them in Japan) and had us adapt them to two Sony PD150's AND add two Century .8x broadcast wide angle converters to the front to offset some of the vignetting -- even on the much smaller, not as wide Sony lens (58mm vs 72mm for the DVX100). I have no idea how the project turned out.
As an aside when I asked the technical people at Panavision about anamorphics for the Panavision/Sony F900 Cine Alta's, they said that their tests (for the first HD Star Wars) had shown better results creating the 2.35 in post -- of course you have powerful post production tools available- cost not being a consideration, and Panavision has their own agenda, but I thought it was interesting.
Bill Turner
Century Division
Schneider Optics
The 1.78X or thereabouts Anamorphic lenses were almost undoubtedly made for a projection application. While the quality might be quite good the problem will almost certainly be severe vignetting at wide angle.
A few years ago a customer brought in a couple 1.75X Kowa brand units (he said he purchased them in Japan) and had us adapt them to two Sony PD150's AND add two Century .8x broadcast wide angle converters to the front to offset some of the vignetting -- even on the much smaller, not as wide Sony lens (58mm vs 72mm for the DVX100). I have no idea how the project turned out.
As an aside when I asked the technical people at Panavision about anamorphics for the Panavision/Sony F900 Cine Alta's, they said that their tests (for the first HD Star Wars) had shown better results creating the 2.35 in post -- of course you have powerful post production tools available- cost not being a consideration, and Panavision has their own agenda, but I thought it was interesting.
Bill Turner
Century Division
Schneider Optics