Can you turn a prime lens into a zoom lens?

[ReelWorksMedia]

....except ReelWorksMedia.

(removing this comment)

 

[David W. Jones]

OK, I vote for a second banning.

 

[ReelWorksMedia]

OK, I vote for a second banning.

I removed my last comment as it was poking fun of myself. It looks like David W Jones may have some how taken offense of my good natured humor....so I removed it out of respect for this thread.

David, if you were in fact targeting me with your last comment, as extreme as that may be, I will respect it.

 

[Paul F]

You're mis-reading David...... or I am

 

[ReelWorksMedia]

Not sure...I made a goofy comment about myself. He seemed to take offense. I could be totally misinterpreting it though. Either way...its all good.

 

[David W. Jones]

It had had nothing to do with your comment which I was fine with.


This

. It's good to be back... I almost thought I wouldn't after one of the moderators had me banned from DVX a few months ago...

 

[ReelWorksMedia]

Great. I just saw it right after I called myself a turdface. So I officially reinstate my previous comment. I'm a turdface. Wow. Not my best moment.

Sorry David.

 

[David W. Jones]

No problem, the turdface gets to buy the A-hole a beer:beer::beer:

 

[ReelWorksMedia]

Cheers to that.

 

[sonofaresiii]

This thread went from dumb, to funny, back to dumb, to amusing to delightful.

Well done everyone!

 

[Liam Hall]

Great. I just saw it right after I called myself a turdface. So I officially reinstate my previous comment. I'm a turdface. Wow. Not my best moment.

Sorry David.

Here's the bit you missed s**t-for-brains.

Wow. 800 views and nobody's figured it out yet? I'm surprised. Maybe I should reveal my secret method in a proper YouTube demo video ( I hear you can make good money on YouTube these days :grin: ). But first I think I ought to post a few more examples here and see if one of you clever people can figure it out. It's good to be back... I almost thought I wouldn't after one of the moderators had me banned from DVX a few months ago...

 

[Finn Yarbrough]

Here's the bit you missed s**t-for-brains.

Liam, brother, that's a bit much, don't you think?
Crazy thread, by the way: I think we've got a real Loki on our hands, here. David might be right!

 

[EDV]

This thread went from dumb, to funny, back to dumb, to amusing to delightful.

If it's so dumb, how come you can't figure out my method? More examples coming soon... :thumbsup:

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

It doesn't matter how you are doing it. Primes are made for one purpose and zooms are made for another. If you have something useful to share with the community, then do so. No one wants to guess.

+1

I personally feel guesses have been made and it's really time to get on with it.

My moderator finger is getting restless...

 

[David W. Jones]

EDV, You are Trolling!

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

To try and end this, my best guess is that you have a lens adapter on a camera (I.E. a RedRock on an HPX-170) and you are simply zooming the camera's fixed zoom lens further in on the spinning ground glass upon which your prime lens is being projected on. I remember back in the day when I used a HVX200 and RedRock... there was always a little wiggle room for how much I could set the HVX200's lens on the ground glass.

 

[EDV]

I am not trolling. However, my plan was to post a few more examples and let you people see whether my idea has merit. The answer is in the examples themselves actually, look closer. And it's legit. All lenses tested are prime SLRs, but Cinema lenses can work just as well.

 

[David W. Jones]

OK, you just lost me!

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

To try and end this, my best guess is that you have a lens adapter on a camera (I.E. a RedRock on an HPX-170) and you are simply zooming the camera's fixed zoom lens further in on the spinning ground glass upon which your prime lens is being projected on. I remember back in the day when I used a HVX200 and RedRock... there was always a little wiggle room for how much I could set the HVX200's lens on the ground glass.

^ I'm still sticking with this. Using a zoom to magnify a prime. It's still a zoom.

 

[ReelWorksMedia]

OK, you just lost me!

Yep, I'm out too. Don't really care that much. Odds are, this is most likely a waste of time.