GH1 with PL mount (and anamorphics)

squig said:
how wide can you go before you get vignetting?
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Just letting you know, I've put the Panasonic anamorphic adapter on my Tokina 11-16 zoom. There is vignetting all the way to 16mm and then it disappears. My friends, 16mm anamorphic is truly epic. Granted, I wouldn't use it for closeups as it distorts pretty bad in the middle but if you want "Lawrence of Arabia" landscape shots, then 16mm is where it's at.
 
Jack, what camera did you try this with, was it Four Thirds or a Full Frame? Just trying to get an idea of how this would work on say the m4/3 7-14mm.
 
I've got a Nikon D90. I can't guarantee that there wouldn't be vignetting on Full Frame sensors but it should be no problem on the Micro 4/3" of the GH1, as a matter of fact, you might be able to get some more out of the Tokina on a GH1 but don't hold me to that.
 
ok, so I'm thinking that going out as wide as 10mm on the GH1, with this adapter should avoid vignetting hopefully. If I can get hold of an adapter then I have to try this out!
 
Jack_Felis said:
Just letting you know, I've put the Panasonic anamorphic adapter on my Tokina 11-16 zoom. There is vignetting all the way to 16mm and then it disappears. My friends, 16mm anamorphic is truly epic. Granted, I wouldn't use it for closeups as it distorts pretty bad in the middle but if you want "Lawrence of Arabia" landscape shots, then 16mm is where it's at.
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In APS-C with a 1.33x anamorphic, anything wider than 19mm approx; vignetting and slight blurring begins. Remember though, 1.33x which is .67x wide angle lens on the horizontal axis turns that 19mm into a FOV on the H axis to a 12.73mm approx lens.

On 5D MII full frame, vignetting and slight blurring starts at around 27mm approx and the .67x anamorphic on the H. Axis turns that into a 18mm FOV on a full frame.


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I just scored another anamorphic adapter.....can't help myself. It's an optex 1.33x, same design as the century optics 16x9. I've been reading up on them and apparently the alignment of the 2 pieces of glass is very precise and a lot of the century lenses were out of alignment from the factory which explains the mixed reviews. I've seen some footage from them that looked good so hopefully this is one of the good ones. I wanted something small and stealthy to go alongside my isco-54 bazooka for steadicam work and possible kit lens AF use.
 
Hunter -

Enjoying the thread. Looks like working with the camera has come along since you had it over at our office the first day you got it.

Hey, when you get back from Seattle, we are shooting some very cool scenes for our DVX short TFG at a few great locations and sets. You should bring the GH1 and shoot some BTS stuff or some test shots :)
 
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squig said:
I just scored another anamorphic adapter.....can't help myself. It's an optex 1.33x, same design as the century optics 16x9. I've been reading up on them and apparently the alignment of the 2 pieces of glass is very precise and a lot of the century lenses were out of alignment from the factory which explains the mixed reviews. I've seen some footage from them that looked good so hopefully this is one of the good ones. I wanted something small and stealthy to go alongside my isco-54 bazooka for steadicam work and possible kit lens AF use.
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I owned the Optex and have the Century. Now you just need a camera............

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My Isco-54 anamorphic adapter came today just before I was about to send the D90 to it's new home so I went out into the foul weather and shot some test footage. I mounted the isco onto a nikon 35mm f/2 ai. I tried a 28mm but got some vignetting. My first impressions are that the isco should work very well on a GH1. The GH1's smaller sensor should allow me to use a 28mm lens perhaps even a 24mm. The isco only close focuses to 2m so to get tight head shots on the D90 I had to use a 135mm lens. With the extra crop on the GH1 I could get those shots with a 105mm.
 
Amazing job Mr Bloom! I know I have no chance of ever making even 1 second of something like this footage in my lifetime but I'm glad someone can. Stupid J&R, ship faster!
 
squig said:
My Isco-54 anamorphic adapter came today just before I was about to send the D90 to it's new home so I went out into the foul weather and shot some test footage. I mounted the isco onto a nikon 35mm f/2 ai. I tried a 28mm but got some vignetting. My first impressions are that the isco should work very well on a GH1. The GH1's smaller sensor should allow me to use a 28mm lens perhaps even a 24mm. The isco only close focuses to 2m so to get tight head shots on the D90 I had to use a 135mm lens. With the extra crop on the GH1 I could get those shots with a 105mm.
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Gotta ask. I've tried to find an Isco-54 and even an Optex 1.33x with no real luck. Can you point me in the right direction? Are these harder to find than I envisioned?
 
Nighthawk said:
Gotta ask. I've tried to find an Isco-54 and even an Optex 1.33x with no real luck. Can you point me in the right direction? Are these harder to find than I envisioned?
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I found both on ebay last week. They don't come along very often.
 
hunter richards said:
There is though a rare sought after set of ISCORAMA 1.5x anamorphic lenses in NIKON mount, they will work just like cinema lenses but they are very hard to find and are over priced when you do find them.
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I dunno about insanely overpriced...I missed the boat on one on E-bay...it went for about $700
 
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