Lenses with character

[robmneilson]

I plunked down $300 bucks for it, figured $500+ is insane for the 40-2...

$300 is probably insane for the lens I'm getting anyway, but it will be a present to myself for socking away more tax money than I needed to this year.

I'm shooting a short starting 5/1 I'm hoping it will get to NYC in time from Russia, but not counting on it!

I'll post clips once I get to play with it.

 

[rhervag]

congrats!
i have the 40-2 and it is a wonderful beast on fullframe... on the 7D it gets an equivalent to a 135 with awesome portraits wide open, very good for video too.
looking forward to your upload

 

[kostas]

I think a great lens with character is the Meyer Optik - Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm f 2.8. Crazy bokeh wide open, sharper when stopped down. I have purchased one recently and really like it much.

I now have some footage shot with this lens.
There is another thread on this, but thought it was worth to post it here too.
http://vimeo.com/11339506

 

[Postmaster]

Love my vintage (1960s) Zeiss medium format primes.

Some examples. I shot them out of the trunk of a car - straight from the HVX200/LEX and a 120 2.8 Zeiss Prime of the 1960s. No color correction, just an ND-grad and a polarizer. Double-double click them to see them in full glory.

That film (Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny) is in the theater since last week and I was surprised how good it looked on that huge screen.

Here is some information and writeup I did: http://frankglencairn.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/vintage-zeiss-glass-on-modern-cameras/


Frank

 

[robmneilson]

Wow those medium format lenses above look great!

Whelp I took down my old video, but heres a teaser shot with the Helios 40!

 

[Postmaster]

Love the look of the second scene with that guy on the sidewalk.

Frank

 

[robmneilson]

Thanks Postmaster....my actor was a real trooper. The prop garbage wasn't real enough looking for him, so he insisted we took a real garbage bag from the sidewalk for him to root through!

 

[Dingos8mybaby]

Some examples. I shot them out of the trunk of a car - straight from the HVX200/LEX and a 120 2.8 Zeiss Prime of the 1960s. No color correction, just an ND-grad and a polarizer. Double-double click them to see them in full glory.

Frank, those shots are bee-yoo-tiful! Very nice straight from the cam.

That film (Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny) is in the theater since last week and I was surprised how good it looked on that huge screen.

They made a film of that (based on the comics, I presume)? BTW, the actor you have playing 'young' Indy kinda looks like James Marsden.

 

[Postmaster]

Here is some more "character lens" food from a commercial shot I did yesterday.

Vintage (1960s) Zeiss medium format primes.
80/2.8 and 200/2.8

HVX200/LEX

I call that "lens character" Zeiss-Buttersharp (thou the JPEG compression and the LEX is softing them)

Frank