GH1 with PL mount (and anamorphics)

Though, not the PLmount setup :-(....... Here are my lens testings with the Panasonic anamorphic attachment I started many months ago hoping to to use on a 5D or whatever gets selected, I've gotten crap from some people saying " anamorphic is soft, distorts blah blah. Well so do promist filters or even film flashing technically. I've always loved anamorphic, however not for sharpness which we know, it's for the ascetics that anamorphic is. There are a few other reasons, one being your FOV on the horizontal is different at the same distance to spherical cropped. It has a more dimensional look to it. I have been testing out various adapters attachments including the Panasonic 1.33x cause buying Hawks 1.33x on a 5D or whatever DSLR is cost prohibitive. Renting Hawks can be an option too...

Some samples:

NEILANA.jpg

ANANODATA.jpg

IMG_0646-GP.jpg

ANAMORPHIC1copy.jpg




Panny 1.33x anamorphic on a 19mm to 35mm zoom. Below is a shot at 19mm, which stretches the boundary. At 20mm to 22mm the sides are clear, however I wanted to test worst case.

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The camera I use for testing this setup:
IMG_4227.jpg



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That looks fantastic. How are you attaching the adapter to each lens and what are you doing in post to unstreach?
 
I've been using these adaptors on pd150.

How does it look with long lenses?
Can you zoom through without loosing focus?
 
Matty- I only have so so footage from the squarefronts right now, but Im getting a set of round fronts pretty soon. I just dont want to post anything thats not a good a example of what you can do with the camera, Im going to Seattle next week and hopefully I will comeback with a film.
 
The GH1 needs a bit of softening so anamorphic should look good. Now that I have my isco-54 I don't think I want to shoot anything without it.

pix, bugger zooming
 
squig,

i read somewhere that the anamorphic ISCO nikon mount lens makes the image shake when you change focus during a shot.. is this true?
 
I don't know much about the iscorama nikon mount lenses, I don't have anywhere near enough money to get anamorphic lenses in different focal lengths. mine is just an old projector lens that I screw onto the filter threads of my lenses.
 
ah. i assumed isco-54 meant the isco nikon lens.

i was gonna pick one up a few years ago but then read that thing about the shaking... i think that was over at the red forum... i might pick up one of these panasonic anamorphic attachments....

does anyone know what focal lengths it works with on a full frame 35mm camera?
 
Yep, I use the Panasonic adapter. It seems to be a real gem on these VDSLRs. The 1080P on the 5D Mark II really helps sell it though based on these pics and the full frame sensor might be helping as well. Through various tests, I've found that the adapter can work all the way through 300mm, I would test further but I don't have anything beyond 300mm. The only drawback is that you would have to stop down to get rid of the image blur, which is normal.

I've done extensive testing on my Nikon 50mm 1.2 and found that f/1.2 is useable but it all depends on what you want in the shot. The focus is insane at that stop and you have to imagine holding up your camera's LCD and pointing at a spot on it with your pinky. That will be about the size the focus spot will be and it shifts depending on your focus. It's weird yet, in the right instance, it can work, much like any cinematography technique, no matter how strange, would. But this is on the D90, things could be different on the 5D Mark II or even the GH1, all of them will require testing because, as I've said about the 5D Mark II examples, each one will handle the anamorphic adapter a little differently than the others.
 
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Yeah the Panasonic gets a lot of attacks,; yet I have had it on very high res cameras, and it hold it's own well. Just need to follow a few rules, that are mainly those connected to anamorphic filming. People say it's soft on their dvx; well which one was the chicken or the egg. Maybe it's the DVX that was the soft element. You mention at f1.2, That's pushing it in anamorphic. Anything really between 1.0 2.0 T or F stop is pushing other than the latest Panavision or Hawk anamorphics. For the most part all my test's have been wide open for worst case scenario performance. However things don't start to optically get good tell 2.8 then at .f4 way much better. Wide open simply increases astigmatism and softeness that is inherent with anamorphics. At f.4 it's minimal, at 5.6 it's gone. This goes for almost any anamorphic system.

Here is a 35mm f1.9 test I shot the other day.
Btw, I would feel sorry for the AC's pulling focus in anamorphic at F1.9. Talk about a torture
test.

35MMF19.jpg



This is a 28mm @ f2.5 at 1600asa to test lowlight.

28mmf25new.jpg


Here is a 19 to 35mm f3.5 lens set at 19mm at f.4. 19mm wides are pushing it since with the anamorphic wide-angel conversion
the 19mm is now a 12.73mm lens on the horizontal. At 20 to 22mm, the sides clean up. So a 22mm becomes a 14.47mm on the horizontal
when anamorphic adapter applied.

19TO35MMNEW.jpg




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Though, not the PLmount setup :-(....... Here are my lens testings with the Panasonic anamorphic attachment I started many months ago hoping to to use on a 5D or whatever gets selected, I've gotten crap from some people saying " anamorphic is soft, distorts blah blah. Well so do promist filters or even film flashing technically. I've always loved anamorphic, however not for sharpness which we know, it's for the ascetics that anamorphic is. There are a few other reasons, one being your FOV on the horizontal is different at the same distance to spherical cropped. It has a more dimensional look to it. I have been testing out various adapters attachments including the Panasonic 1.33x cause buying Hawks 1.33x on a 5D or whatever DSLR is cost prohibitive. Renting Hawks can be an option too...

Some samples:

NEILANA.jpg

ANANODATA.jpg

IMG_0646-GP.jpg

ANAMORPHIC1copy.jpg




Panny 1.33x anamorphic on a 19mm to 35mm zoom. Below is a shot at 19mm, which stretches the boundary. At 20mm to 22mm the sides are clear, however I wanted to test worst case.

Click thumbnail






The camera I use for testing this setup:
IMG_4227.jpg




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Do you have any longer lens examples? Those look way better than I thought they would!
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I just posted a few more large frames above Hunter.

Longest lens I have tested; I will look through my test archives. I have been testing this stuff for months now; just didn't talk about it on here until yesterday, so I have amassed quite the amount of testing data. Long lenses are a tough one, cause you need to stop down to avoid astigmatism from the paired optical elements..


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Anything really between 1.0 2.0 T or F stop is pushing other than the latest Panavision or Hawk anamorphics.
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Add the elites to that list too. Have some music video stuff with them wide open at t2 that is stunning.

Also, I have a set of squarefront lomos that are t 2.5 and pretty damn good wide open.
 
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