AF100 Anamorphic Adapters Panasonic Vs Isco

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Vincent Pascoe

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I saw a few threads on this and wanted to get this conversation restarted. I just finished a week of shooting on the Icosramas on the AF100 it was a lot of fun heres some thoughts.*This is all very unscientific.

If your wondering why shoot with anamorphic's on the AF100: 2.38- wile useing the entire AF100 Sensor. Great organic Anamorphic flares. Beautiful oval Bokeh on out of focus High lights.

Heres a flare test I shot on the Isco

I found my Panasonic AG-LA7200 and shot some tests in comparison to the 50mm F/2.8 Isco. The biggest fault I found with the Panasonic adapter was I had to stop down to a F/5.6 to get anything in focus. I was hoping to be able to use it on my 135mm Nikon but I couldn't get focus. But with the Canon 50mm I was able to get a much more useable Minimum Focus. I had shot a couple of Indy features on the DVX with the Adapter and I remember from some of Barry's comments about not being able to zoom through the entire range of the DVX. If anyone still has a dvx and the adapter would love to know in mm what worked.


If anyone out there has had any luck with the AF100 and the Adapter I would love to know which lenses and stops they have had luck with.

Here's a quick cut of just some of the shots we got with the Iscos this last week:

Cation as a "look" for these music video I didn't use the "clean" setting as such the footage is pretty dirty.


A big plus of shooting the Iscos on the AF100 is that the 35mm F3.5 didn't vignet on the Canon 5d it was unusable even in a music video.

Panasonic Pros: Flares had more of a Startreeky feel slightly Bluer and almost boxed shaped. closer minimum fouucs.

Cons: had to stop down to at least a 5.6 to get aceptable foucus. didn't work on longer lenses. could not get edge to edge foucus. Front element large hard to use diopters in front of.

Iscoramas: I had the 35mm 3.5 50mm F/2.8 and the helios 58mm F2.0
Pros: great edge to edge sharpness, very organic Flares

Cons: Minimum focus on some lenses was 7ft. so Diopters was necessary. To make some of the lenses work required up to 6 adapters or points where the lenses could unscrew.

I had hoped to be able to use both adapters on the videos but due to no AC and run and gun nature I was never able to use the Panasonic. I will try to do more testing wile I still have both adapters.
 
I've done some anamorphic testing with the Voigtländer 25 at F5.6 and above. With the adapter I have I don't want to go under F5.6 and even then it's much softer on the edges than in the middle. Stopping down towards F8 helps but I feel anamorphic adapters does limit how you can shoot.
 
Mike the password is down now enjoy!


David thanks that would be great, also If you have any lenses that either adapter would work on love to try them out. I've watched your reel before love siluete shot by the window. But Today I saw you have shot a lot of EPK /Interview stuff great that you have the footage for that... I just finished a phone interview and I wish that I had all of that type of footage to show them.

Editman: which adapter are you using? a generic one?

I've been trying to use an Anamorphic 16mm projection lens but the one I have isn't focusing unless its almost touching the sensor!
 
2011-05-16_00-58-35_680.jpg Ok so by mounting the Panasonic adapter on two Redrock Lens supports using 3 hair ties from talent I was able to use almost any lens with the Panasonic adapter EVEN the Iscoramas it self! I was able to use my nikon 85mm F/1.8 and even the cheapo 28mm. and able to get focus even at F/2.
 
Will be trying to mount a Cinemascope Hypergonar anamorphic lens on the AF100, soon. Not the HIFI2 version everyone seems to be using lately but the big old one from the 50's... (as seen on hypergonar.com home page) Will keep you updated ;-)
 
Among anamorphic adapters, I've gotten best results using an ISCO Widescreen 2000 with Canon FD and Konica Hexanon prime lenses from 28-85mm at apertures as wide as f1.4. The ISCO 2000 is a fixed-focus anamorphic, but is otherwise similar to the Iscoramas. On its own it will deliver good focus as close as six feet and can be used with a 72mm +0.5 diopter for close-ups.

Judging from my experience with less expensive anamorphic adapters, edge clarity is highly dependent on the diameter and corner quality of the back lens in the adapter. The Century Optics 1.33x anamorphic adapter with a 55mm back element has noticeably better edge clarity than the 37mm version, both of which use the same front element.
 
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