Sgpro/Brevis

[Lenilenapi]

I'm going to sleep after this, but Kholi I just looked at Beat Takeshi's beautiful screen shots and I don't see that smear. i've never seen it, at this point I wish I did.

Re the filter thing. I don't know - a number of us including Barry disagree with Dennis about the need for external filters outside. I haven't seen an example of a problem but I'm open to seeing it if someone will post it.

Meanwhile I still don't know what "odd light thing" you refer to. This thread has talked about odd linearity in exposure, but nothing about odd artifacting in the image. I would hate to see someone make a buying decision based on those remarks. But i guess they can look for the smear themselves, maybe I'm just not catching it. Beat's images speak for themselves though.

There is some odd stuff happening on many of these adapters and screens but I don't think its specific to the Brevis , and there is odd stuff in the Letus as well.

Lovely work as always Mr Takeshi - thanks for posting - looks filmic to me.

- Lenny

 

[Kholi]

How can you not see the image fall off on the right side of that still? Beat notices it, USLatin sees it, IanD sees it. I'm not crazy.

That's not an out of focus area, that's not entirely lens falloff, either. That's part of the Brevis' doing. It's not that his shots aren't "filmic", it's that there's obviously something off on the right side of the screen. It's not his fault, his stuff looks great. Aram's shiz always looks good and he's getting better.

The Odd light thing is the fact that the CF1LE (is that the right name for it) is too bright. That's what I see. You may have a different thought about it, I see something completely off about the image when using that screen. It's not light efficiency to me, it's something going wrong but that's just me. Whatever about the light thing, I dont' have anything to say about it til Barry gets his unit and gives the lowdown from an unbiased perspective.

The smear? I'll point it out because I see it in everything Brevis. The Brevis w/flip? Different story entirely. Like I told USLatin, get the Brevis for sure if he wants it. Don't get it without the flip. It's not like you can't take it off when you want. But the flip is what's giving the Brevis it's edge-to-edge.

Heck, please, someone with tubes or spacers put it in your Brevis and do a before and after for me. I'm willing to bet the issue disappears entirely when the Brevis's achromat is further away from the HVX's lens.

Granted, it COULD be the wide angles doing it. Not to totally discount it. But, I honestly don't think that it's the wide angle's fault.

 

[Lenilenapi]

I did see what you're pointing to in this shot, but I don't see it in any of the others, so I figure it could be due to lens or center weighted focusing . Also in this shot I see it in both sides.

I do agree that a buyer should get it with a flip.

I honestly have no idea what you mean by "Too bright" though. The odd thing at f1.4 to f2.8 or 4 is perfectly understandable to me and I have explained why. The guy who looked at his cameras viewfinder also described it perfectly.


I guess we'll just disagree.

 

[Jon Neely]

Richard, I placed my order on 1/1/08, and Wayne said it should be shipping this Friday, but from what it sounds like is that he still has some room on the batch that mine is in, because he said there was a 1 week lead time, so so might be lucky and get yours the same time I get mine, but then again, dont take my word for that, I might be completely wrong, so be safe and PM wayne, he is really good at responding to his PMs. Thank you Kholi for the clear up, we should team up some day on a shoot, If you ever need some help or another adapter, just pm me, Im in fresno, so its about 4 hr drive to LA, but hey if you got a cool shoot that you could use some help with, and I'm open, I'm down for that.

Jon

 

[Jon Neely]

How can you not see the image fall off on the right side of that still? Beat notices it, USLatin sees it, IanD sees it. I'm not crazy.

That's not an out of focus area, that's not entirely lens falloff, either. That's part of the Brevis' doing. It's not that his shots aren't "filmic", it's that there's obviously something off on the right side of the screen. It's not his fault, his stuff looks great. Aram's shiz always looks good and he's getting better.

The Odd light thing is the fact that the CF1LE (is that the right name for it) is too bright. That's what I see. You may have a different thought about it, I see something completely off about the image when using that screen. It's not light efficiency to me, it's something going wrong but that's just me. Whatever about the light thing, I dont' have anything to say about it til Barry gets his unit and gives the lowdown from an unbiased perspective.

The smear? I'll point it out because I see it in everything Brevis. The Brevis w/flip? Different story entirely. Like I told USLatin, get the Brevis for sure if he wants it. Don't get it without the flip. It's not like you can't take it off when you want. But the flip is what's giving the Brevis it's edge-to-edge.

Heck, please, someone with tubes or spacers put it in your Brevis and do a before and after for me. I'm willing to bet the issue disappears entirely when the Brevis's achromat is further away from the HVX's lens.

Granted, it COULD be the wide angles doing it. Not to totally discount it. But, I honestly don't think that it's the wide angle's fault.

I too have seen this in some footage with the brevis, and, Dont shoot me, but some of the early footage of Philip Bloom's footage of Kew Gardens, there is some noticeable fall off with the Letus EX with the EX1, now Im not sure if it was the camera or adapter that was doing it, because the early EX1s had a backfocus problem. Im just saying is that maybe its a hereditary thing with vibrating GGs... thats all I'm going to say about that.

Jon

 

[Kholi]

I too have seen this in some footage with the brevis, and, Dont shoot me, but some of the early footage of Philip Bloom's footage of Kew Gardens, there is some noticeable fall off with the Letus EX with the EX1, now Im not sure if it was the camera or adapter that was doing it, because the early EX1s had a backfocus problem. Im just saying is that maybe its a hereditary thing with vibrating GGs... thats all I'm going to say about that.

Jon

It's the EX-1, not the Letus. The le brothers are fixing the EX-1 issue.