helloworld
Active member
Any updates on how the standard Go35's coming along?
New 35mm adapter
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Daniel Skubal
Veteran
Apparently my subconscious filter blocked this thread out as a plea to my conscious to stop reading 35mm adapter threads. This is a great looking product though, I'm kicking myself for not seeing it when it was posted oh so long ago
Justin_Kirch
Runner Up.
tick tock tick tock.
bklyndv
Well-known member
Emanuel said:
Yes. This will require a moving mechanism. The Go35HD is in the works. If you know of any good electrical engineers with mechanical engineering experience, so much the better -- I've been shopping around for someone who can build me a charge indicator and battery pack for such a device, even placed an add on CraigsList...
helloworld -- Go35 Standard latest prototype should arrive via FedEx tomorrow. Pics will be here, of course. Provided it works out alright, I expect to place my order tomorrow evening for the first run of parts and hope to begin shipping them by the end of the first week in March, though to be sure, I have to check with my manufacturer to see what the expected turn-around time will be for mass produced, anodized parts. Each development stage thus far has taken about two weeks to complete -- I'm hoping mass production of an already completed prototype will be the same time or less.
On the Go35Pro front, I can't tell you how elated I am to know I'm just a few steps away from having this hammered out, as well. I've got a somewhat sloppy prototype glass here that I fooled with today and what else can I say other than I'm blown away by the lack of grain, and overall color preservation.
The big tell-all with any of these adapters is what shows in the highlights and there's absolutely no grain in the highlights that I got on tape today. The light loss is sufficiently little that I just run'n'gunned it in a sunny room and I had to step up to 1/200th shutter at times, or stop down from 1.8 to 2.4 to compensate -- and this is with the venerable, light needy GL1. I can't wait to see what it does on the DVX or any other recent gen DV camera.
You can see some grabs of what I mean here. As I said -- that's a GL1, sloppy prototype glass -- the final will lose even less light and have sharper focus characteristics. I will post footage when I feel it's ready for prime time.
Emanuel
Cross-Examiner
Go35HD is it a third version or the Pro version to HD?bklyndv said:
I'm in Europe but what I can do for you? Who knows? I have some people known in this field here. Well, specify what -- if you are really interested. I'm interesting in your product as potential customer or even as your rep here 'cause I'm doing as consultant some consulting work to some customers around my business background -- (the) filmmaking. Availability -- any idea?
Good news! With a HD 1080 workflow too?
Quality? If confirmed, grainless? Noiseless? Minimal or even no loss lighting? At 1/2" CCD HD 1080, of course.
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Filmjunkie677
Master of Horror
Are these going to be available to order through DVXuser?
bklyndv
Well-known member
That would be a bridge to cross only when the time comes, and I'm a bit of a ways off from that. However, it sounds like a good deal -- I'd like to talk with Jarred or Barry and see if they think something like that is possible. I'm also cooking up some deals for regulars so that you'd get a certain percentage or free shipping off your order provided you have a given post count here, and on other forums.
Today was a mixed bag -- I'm working on more Go35Pro stills that are a better indicator of the sharpness given the grumbling about the earlier shots (I knew you'd nail me on that).
On the other hand, my machinist informs me that a bulk order of these things will take 30 days to manufacture plus one week of quality checking to ship to me. Ergh. Oh well. I said yesterday I expected the latest prototype to arrive today and it hasn't yet. I'm going through trying to figure out the reason for delay, and I only hope it will cost me at most a day or two.
To clarify a point from above: yes, I'm now thinking of doing a three-tiered product system -- Go35Standard for $209; Go35Pro for between $500 and $600 which will be a near grainless static DV only solution; Go35HD which will go for between $650 and $750, and will require a moving mechanism and have a charge indicator for the batteries.
Today was a mixed bag -- I'm working on more Go35Pro stills that are a better indicator of the sharpness given the grumbling about the earlier shots (I knew you'd nail me on that).
On the other hand, my machinist informs me that a bulk order of these things will take 30 days to manufacture plus one week of quality checking to ship to me. Ergh. Oh well. I said yesterday I expected the latest prototype to arrive today and it hasn't yet. I'm going through trying to figure out the reason for delay, and I only hope it will cost me at most a day or two.
To clarify a point from above: yes, I'm now thinking of doing a three-tiered product system -- Go35Standard for $209; Go35Pro for between $500 and $600 which will be a near grainless static DV only solution; Go35HD which will go for between $650 and $750, and will require a moving mechanism and have a charge indicator for the batteries.
Matt Gottshalk
Resident Preditor
Offer a support rod system for it and I'm all over it.
visualbrother
Active member
I still se a lot of chromatic abbreviation on the samples, is this a acuracy problem or you want to solve this with a achromat? Perhaps in the pro version?
Perhaps I remembered wrong, but wasen't the pro version suppose to be with a moving gg? I guess costs grow when you get more acurate? To be honest I always thought a $500 precision engineerd piece of kit with moving opticals was a bit ambitious if you want to sell it.
I also think thaat would prefer to spend $1400 on something if it does a optical prism / mirror image flip/flop instead of $750.
Looking foreward to your test footage, getting a definate '8mm projection' feeling with the new test shots. The old test footage looked more like a real movie.
Perhaps I remembered wrong, but wasen't the pro version suppose to be with a moving gg? I guess costs grow when you get more acurate? To be honest I always thought a $500 precision engineerd piece of kit with moving opticals was a bit ambitious if you want to sell it.
I also think thaat would prefer to spend $1400 on something if it does a optical prism / mirror image flip/flop instead of $750.
Looking foreward to your test footage, getting a definate '8mm projection' feeling with the new test shots. The old test footage looked more like a real movie.
bklyndv
Well-known member
visualbrother said:
Can you point out which shots and where you see the chromatic aberrations? The assemblage already includes an achromat...
There's a certain trade-off between elegance and complexity and if it's in the cards at some point to flip the image, I might do it, but it's not that big of an issue (relative to grain, light loss, etc.) to overcome with simple methods (magnet; external LCD). The added complexity that would be required of the design, to say nothing of the size of the device, is a big deterrant to me to have the image flipped.
Looking foreward to your test footage, getting a definate '8mm projection' feeling with the new test shots. The old test footage looked more like a real movie.
What's interesting is that if I showed you side-by-side stills using "the old footage" setup, they'd look no different from what you're saying has an 8mm look. There's a world of difference between grabs and footage, and remember, this is all shot with a GL1. Once I get a proper completed prototype, I'll have DVX footage with the adapter to show.