7D HAS ANY 1 USED THE 7D, ZEISS ZF LENS, CapRock and Panasonic Anamorphic Adapter combo?

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Quick question. Has anyone tried using Caprock with the Panasonic Anamorphic adapter? Was wondering it would e effective. I would think one would 1st mount the Caprock filter onto his actual 35mm lens and then mount the Anamorphic Adapter to the Caprock. Would this work properly or will the anamorphic adapter cause for the CapRock filter not to work at all?

I'm looking for solutions and nothing more. I will be shooting with the AF-100 after the new year but I still will be breaking out the 7D for car mounted scenes and shots where a small light weight camera would come in handy. If anyone has any insight even in theory to if this combination will or will not work properly please chime in.

 

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Still wondering. I'm looking for solutions and nothing more. I will be shooting with the AF-100 after the new year but I still will be breaking out the 7D for car mounted scenes and shots where a small light weight camera would come in handy. If anyone has any insight even in theory to if this combination will or will not work properly please chime in.

Thanks

 

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I don't see why the caprock filter would cause a problem. I've used the Panasonic Anamorphic Adapter and Zeiss lenses without a problem, given what the caprock does, it doesn't seem like it would conflict with the anamorphic attachment. You may find you don't need the caprock, however, if you're shooting anamorphic as the anamorphic adapter will smooth things out a tad (i.e. it will soften the image slightly) - but you'll have to test.

One note however - on a car mount scene you're going to be focusing pretty close to the subject and you may have trouble focusing that closely if you are using anamorphics without diopters (and I've yet to find ones that work well with the Panasonic anamorphic adapter, personally) - you usually can't focus closer than a meter. You also need a fair bit of light to use anamorphics well - you're going to have to stop down to f/4 usually in order to keep good sharpness, things start getting soft in a hurry once you start going faster than f/2.8 (depending on your focal length, you can go faster with wider lenses - but on a 35mm lens you'll probably need to be at f/4 to get really sharp images). On the plus side, Zeiss lenses are incredibly sharp so that will help you out a tad.

Feel free to PM me if you have more questions about using the Panny adapter - I'm shooting a feature with one now.