How about a survey?

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jujufactory

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How many people here shoot with Adaptors? How many without?

How many have tried both ways and preferred one or the other?

Let's get this adaptor eperience thread going.
 
jujufactory said:
How many people here shoot with Adaptors? How many without?

How many have tried both ways and preferred one or the other?

Let's get this adaptor eperience thread going.
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The top ten most common expressions jujufactory use are......

1. Adapters are expensive.
2. Do I really need an adapter?
3. With or without adapter?
4. What's the deal with these adapters?
5. Was that shot with or without an adapter?
6. Will you be shooting with or without an adapter?
7. Did you shoot that with or without an adapter?
8. Do you really think you need that adapter?
9. i dont know if I really need an adapter.
10. How bout them there Adapters!

Kidding aside. For basic wide angles, very low light situations and slow shutter timelapse I shoot without the adapter. In those situations the extra sharpness of the stock lens really helps.
When I want to bring focus to a particular subject or object I use an adapter. It really helps set a mood when you decrease depth of field.
 
Kubalsky :) do you mix Adaptor and non adaptor shots without problems? I hear you can't mix or else the look difference jumps at you like a top ten list in an EX1 forum.
 
I hesitate to respond to this thread as I'm less than thrilled with the type of comments I've seem coming from "jujufactory" over the last few weeks. But I'll give him another chance and reply....


I shoot with an EX3. I use our Letus Ultimate adaptor when ever I'm doing promotional work (television commercials, corporate videos, etc....) Clients are very impressed with the gorgeous "look" it gives to the footage. I've already heard a few of my peers tell me that they didn't think I shot that footage (they thought it was shot on film by some big-budget national company......the ultimate compliment for me!)

I take off the adaptor when ever I need to document something. Really the main reason I take it off is for project that requires me to work quickly or record non-stop for a number of hours. These type of projects that require the use of a long zoom lens. With the adaptor, I need to frequently stop recording and change lenses. We have the following lenses:

17-35mm f/2.8
50mm f/1.4
80-200mm f/2.8

If Nikon made a "fast" 17-300mm zoom, then I could shoot non-stop with the adaptor, but when you look at the specs on those types of lenses they are too slow for shooting in available light.
 
I agree with Mitch Lewis.

I use an adapter on any shoot that I have control over (music videos, films, commercials, etc...). On run and gun shoots, I take the adapter off. Adapters tend to slow you down. They are worth the extra effort when you have time and want more of a high end look.

So jujufactory, you have started a bunch of threads and a lot of people have responded. What's your take on adapters? Are you going to buy one or not?

Kubalsky is right. This is starting to get pretty silly.
 
Well there you have it. Need one add anything more. Any which way you look at it all arrows bring you back to the adaptor.
 
What I am going to do? Well I don't have a big budget for this feature and I know the adaptor with lenses will cost no less than 2000 Euros by the tilme the dust settles. That's a big expense. I was hoping somewhere in these forums a voice would tell me something I didn't know about adapters... such as it's not worth it. However the more I read the more I realize everybody with film experience uses adapters. I have yet to see non adaptor work look like film. It just does not happen. I may have top rent an adapter. Please tell me something I don't know.
 
Story is king.

If you put this much effort into honing your story, you could shoot on a mobile phone and it would still be good.

No-one has ever watched a well acted, well told story and said - shame it didn't have that shallow DOF.

Good storytelling works in any form. Look at animation. Pixar stories are second to none. Ditto Aardman animations. Films made with clay animated characters and stop-motion. Brilliant stories. Look at Lars Von Triers Dogma films. Shot on handheld video cameras but made brilliant by their thrilling narratives.

Food for thought.
 
Dancer in the dark
Breakingthe waves

Granted they were shot on video but did they or did they not use adapters. That is the questions.
 
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