Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
So waltind and I live near Quyen, the guy who's designed, builds, and sellls the Letus35. He was kind enough to let us come by his location & test it out with my DVX100a to see what we thought of it.
Some things he's done to the Letus35 to make it even more attractive (add-on pricing though) is offer it with a 72mm thread (no step down rings needed), a higher quality achromat glass, a Canon FD / Nikon AI reversable mount (VERY cool, I was impressed with that one), and a black anodized version for those who may be concerned with potential light reflection from the chrome/explosed metal jobs.
We were pressed for time as we'd eaten up most of our day with supply shopping & location scouting for our short (met up through DVXuser & decided to team up for the Sci-Fi Fest), so we were in & out the door pretty quickly. With some REALLY poor lighting (just some overhead flour's), here's a few grabs we obtained (to draw attention to any abberations, etc., I first blew these up in Photozoom Pro to 1920x wide, then imported back into Vegas & pulled the grabs from there at 720x wide):
Both images below with cell in/out of focus have the ground glass vibrating.
Without the groundglass vibrating (Letus35 has vibrating GG vs. spinning)
With Ground Glass vibrating
I'm REALLY sorry the lighting was so horrible. We hadn't gone there prepared for making a report to DVXuser with grabs, etc., but I figured that since I had these on hand, I'd at least provide what I had. It was a Canon wide angle lens that was on, so there's some barrel distortion, unfortunately ... shouldn't be an issue with a non-wide angle. We had to get VERY close to be able to fill the screen with the focus chart.
I'm pretty impressed, and for myself, plan on making a purchase this week. I'll admit, one of the features that works for me is that he's located so close, so if there are any problems I can do a face-to-face. Even still, though, we loved what we saw so far. He seems to be a pretty easy guy to work with.
Some things he's done to the Letus35 to make it even more attractive (add-on pricing though) is offer it with a 72mm thread (no step down rings needed), a higher quality achromat glass, a Canon FD / Nikon AI reversable mount (VERY cool, I was impressed with that one), and a black anodized version for those who may be concerned with potential light reflection from the chrome/explosed metal jobs.
We were pressed for time as we'd eaten up most of our day with supply shopping & location scouting for our short (met up through DVXuser & decided to team up for the Sci-Fi Fest), so we were in & out the door pretty quickly. With some REALLY poor lighting (just some overhead flour's), here's a few grabs we obtained (to draw attention to any abberations, etc., I first blew these up in Photozoom Pro to 1920x wide, then imported back into Vegas & pulled the grabs from there at 720x wide):
Both images below with cell in/out of focus have the ground glass vibrating.
Without the groundglass vibrating (Letus35 has vibrating GG vs. spinning)
With Ground Glass vibrating
I'm REALLY sorry the lighting was so horrible. We hadn't gone there prepared for making a report to DVXuser with grabs, etc., but I figured that since I had these on hand, I'd at least provide what I had. It was a Canon wide angle lens that was on, so there's some barrel distortion, unfortunately ... shouldn't be an issue with a non-wide angle. We had to get VERY close to be able to fill the screen with the focus chart.
I'm pretty impressed, and for myself, plan on making a purchase this week. I'll admit, one of the features that works for me is that he's located so close, so if there are any problems I can do a face-to-face. Even still, though, we loved what we saw so far. He seems to be a pretty easy guy to work with.
