No OIS on with Panny Anamorphic Lens? (AG LA7200G)

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Nono

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Hallo there guys.
There's someone who own a Panasonic AG LA7200G? Sure somebody.
I've got a question, that's a cozy one: Is there some problem using the adaptor with the OIS (optical Image Stab.) turned on? I would like to know it, because seems that this lens got a lot of problems (is sharp, is plastic & glass rubbish, got some dust from Japan, is ugly etc.) well, if is not possible use a nice tool like the OIS, well it's true, That's a piece of... plastic & glass from Japan!

Thanks everybody, sorry for my english, I'm a poor italian speaking, 16 by 9-want to shoot guy.

Really thanks


"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun."
JLG
 
I have never had a problem using the OIS with the anamorphic attachment, I don't see why there would be one either. The camera doesn't know there's something mounted to the lens. Perhaps I'm missing something.

What kind of problem have you heard of others having?

The only issues I have had with the Panasonic anamorphic lens is that

1. I can't seem to focus well at full zoom
2. Less ability to achieve shallow depth of field
3. The need to "square" it with the rectangle on the lens cap (why couldn't it just snap into place like the lens hood?)
 
Hallo Master.
Well, I did not heard anything at all, it's just written on the Lens User's Manual, that's it!
But you say there are no problems, well great.
But check this out:
the OIS is a thing that make the lens "float" a bit inside, so, maybe is possibile that with the OIS you can see the borber of the attachment, or something like that or distortions or so. Well hey, I'm just guessing, did you read on user's manual this part about thnis Ois, by the way?

Cheers

"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun."
JLG
 
NoNO

NoNO

Hallo guys.
I was looking for the adapter, actually, and I really would like to know if somebody know something about this OIS problem, or better to say: there is a problem or it really dosen't matter at all this note that is written on the Manual?
Thanks guys, is anyway an help.
 
It is recommended not to use the OIS with the anamorphic adapter, for exactly the kind of reasons that Nono listed. The adapter is "bent glass", and it's meant for the lens to look through the center of the adapter. The OIS system lets the camera "see" out of other-than-dead-center, and if looking through the anamorphic adapter through other than dead-center, you may get distortion that you don't like.

But hey, it's a preference thing -- if you don't mind how it looks when using OIS with it, go ahead.
 
Wait A Minute, Barry

Wait A Minute, Barry

Hallo Barry, the legendary Barry Green. Thanks for the reply.
I got a question, since I do not own one of this adapter, how this thing look like, is acceptable? And what is your choice when you work, you put it off (the OIS)? Or what you know about other users, in general.
Because the Ois is nice specially for this little camera shaking, well, without, I really don't know how to manage hand-held moviment.
And, here we go again, your book take care of PAL users as well, or is strictly NTSC orientated? I would like to buy it.

Cheers man and thanks anyway.

"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun."
J.L.G.
 
The anamorphic can do a good job and can look good, but it's a lot of work to use it. Having no OIS is likely to be the least of your worries; keeping proper focus is usually much more challenging than whether or not you have OIS capability.

Since the introduction of the DVX100A (with Squeeze Mode), the anamorphic adapter has really lost a lot of momentum. It's capable of delivering higher resolution than squeeze mode, certainly -- but the tradeoffs in focus, zoom, aperture, and OIS, have limited its appeal. If someone had an original DVX100 and was looking to get the anamorphic, I'd be tempted to tell 'em to sell the 100 and put the proceeds towards getting a 100B instead. Or, if 16x9 ultimate resolution is your goal, get an HVX200 instead -- its native 16x9 delivers higher 16x9 res than the anamorphic adapter on a DVX.
 
Hallo Barry, thanks for the reply.
I own already a DVX100B. I will shot a short pretty soon and this thing about anamorphic was just for is terrific looking, I do believe that the pictures that someone can produce with this format are just better, better and better. I don't know much about resolution in squeeze mode but I do believe that if is not native 16:9 there is not much to talk about. I undestood from your words that the adapter is a tool that has no worth. The camera itself got a lot of nice things, especially the focus, (I used to work with canon XL and they got a lot of problem with focus and depht of field) so now my next step was actually the anamorphic. I still asking somenthing here, Barry, I'm sorry, do I lose resolution in squeeze mode? It work like the squeeze mode of a Canon XL1s?

Thanks again.
 
Yes squeeze loses resolution. The anamorphic can provide a higher-resolution image than squeeze does. But there are many tradeoffs necessary with the anamorphic.

I'm not saying it's of "no worth", just that it isn't that easy to work with, and it's limited in what it can do. So you can get higher resolution with it, but you'll have to work harder to get it.

Try squeeze mode. Squeeze/24p/thin delivers every bit as much resolution as a "native 16x9" interlaced camera like the Sony FX1 in DV mode. You may find it acceptable. And it's much easier to work in squeeze mode than it is with the anamorphic adapter.
 
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