Letus 35 Flip arrived today

[Noel Evans]

OK heres my short one hour experience, I was able to get some very sharp focus using a 19" monitor (widescreen LCD screen- not field monitor).

The Adapter arrived in good order working etc, fairly easy to figure out the required settings. I guess my only one complaint is the inside of the adapter itself is rather dirty, bits of dust etc that are showing up in the footage. A clean will fix this Id imagine... but there goes one hour of my life (thats when I actually work out how to clean it - which I wont do until Im advised how to).

 

[Michael Summers]

ineresting. i was going to order the Lflip sometime today or tomorrow. What rod system are you using, if any? how heavy is it?

 

[Noel Evans]

Bit busy today but when I get back Im going to measure it all up and see what rod system will work I imagine the cavision will be sufficient. The overall weight of the adapter isnt a lot, so you can operate it without rods, though i just prefer the security.

I placed a cokin rotating filter stage on the end of a 50 mm lens and there was no problem, had a cokin circular polariser in it. I have here a small hood that attaches to the filter stage that I will make a small sunshade for, so effectively it will operate as mattebox, my rotation would need to be in forths but I dont forsee a problem with that.

 

[Michael Summers]

Yeah, I'd go with the rods for support also. the lens alone is heaavy! (those old metal lenses might be heavier than the letus itself!) seems like you're a happy camper. how bad is the light loss?

 

[Noel Evans]

Sorry Michael most of what I have done so far is messing around, at a guess I would say about one stop. But not too bad, very workable.

 

[kyle.presley]

Can you post some pics of your setup? I'm dying to see what the darn thing looks like mounted. Plus the one pic on Quyen's site is pretty bad.

 

[Noel Evans]

Sorry guys I will do it soon, I am learning to use a steadicam merlin also, plus finishing a script, doing a music video storyboard (rough) location scouting for the vid... on top of that suckered into shooting a friends wedding. Tomorrow night I will.. see how tired my arm gets with the merlin tonight maybe.