Iscorama Anamophic Lens Test

hello chaps,
i am a newbie.
listen do not want to disrespect anyone but this is old ground from a film point of view..
film dp's have been here before i have spoken to joe dunton,century,schneider and isco over the years.
now the deal is,do not hold your breath on these companies knocking out new spec generation iscorama lens for 200 dollars.
i have 3 iscos and they sold in the 1980s and 90s for 1200 to 1500 english pounds. isco do not do cheap. if your talking about the dinky century/optex style adaptor that maybe would be 500-600 dollars,they all got sold cheap a couple of years ago.when 4.3 chips stopped being popular.
if your talking about a brand new nikon mounted iscorama lens get real.
min $1200 us unless isco has a stash of old stock,even then min $600 for a 15 year old lens.
check out the film klute some nice flare in it..
cheers
 
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antiochuswilson said:
hello chaps,
i am a newbie.
listen do not want to disrespect anyone but this is old ground from a film point of view..
film dp's have been here before i have spoken to joe dunton,century,schneider and isco over the years.
now the deal is,do not hold your breath on these companies knocking out new spec generation iscorama lens for 200 dollars.
i have 3 iscos and they sold in the 1980s and 90s for 1200 to 1500 english pounds. isco do not do cheap. if your talking about the dinky century/optex style adaptor that maybe would be 500-600 dollars,they all got sold cheap a couple of years ago.when 4.3 chips stopped being popular.
if your talking about a brand new nikon mounted iscorama lens get real.
min $1200 us unless isco has a stash of old stock,even then min $600 for a 15 year old lens.
check out the film klute some nice flare in it..
cheers
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this is funny.. probably you should think all of us are video shooters.. ehehehe

btw.. FF brings iscoramas.. afaik 5d2 is the 1st to make motion since vv (vistavision)
 
filmmaker's gang said:
this is funny.. probably you should think all of us are video shooters.. ehehehe

no,just kind of pointing out the obvious financial practicalities about prices for quality german glass.clearly for to long in the film industry prices for anything camera related were silly high,i remember getting an invoice for £2000 pounds for a damaged matte box.
in the old days isco used to used schott glass same as zeiss,what with re-design build,multicoating,mounts and marketing german wages etc it cannot be a cheap product.
for a cheaper product i believe hong kong had an optical company that made some of the optex/century 16.9 anamorphics.i would guess they were being sold to optex for £150.00 each,then sold on for £500.00.
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Canon EF 70-300 + Iscorama = works nicely, again a little vignetting, but nothing to worry about.

Also works fine with a 2x telephoto converter.

But . . . the front element turns when focusing - so your anamorphicity is screwed up with focussing and needs to be corrected once focused - so only useful for shots that you need to set up (ie: not 'run and gun') - and, of course, no focus pulls.

. . . . but it's really nice to have a 300mm / 600mm anamorphic lens with image stabilization.

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filmmaker's gang said:
does the image stabilizer work with no connection to the camera?
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I doubt the image stabilizer would work at all with no connection to the camera (from where it draws it's power)

Fortunately it is connected to the camera (why would it not be ?) - so the image stabilizer works just fine.
 
Not with a rotating front element it won't. And normally you have to leave your lens set to infinity and just focus with the isco.
 
Guys, I have voided my offer after I took a few shots last weekend...

Here some results....ISO1250, handheld, fully open
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So what's the news on these famous six ISCO adaptors (which type btw.)???

Cheers,

Klaus
 
Those images look like any mid to wide lens with the top and bottom cropped off - no flare, no lens abberation, no oval bokeh - am I missing something ?
 
So, where's the CA on the leaves? Why is the edge to edge sharpness so high? I've never seen a pic in these anamorphic threads with that kind of sharpness.

:costumed-smiley-047
 
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