Which 35mm adapter would you buy?

Jeremy Ordan

Jeremy Ordan

Major Contributor
OK, I have searched and there are not really any head to head comparisons. If it was your money what would you buy:
Letus 35a (Price $500)
Wayne Kinney's SG35 (Price $500 after shipping)
RedRockMicro M2 (Price $1000)

I'm just really confused and have spent more hours than I want to admit to myself researching this only to end up where I started. Thanks for the help!

~Jeremy
 
I am on the pre-order list for the G35 so that is my first choice. I think the footage from the beta units beats anything I have seen from any of the other adapters. My second choice would be the Redrock.


All the letus footage I have seen is uniformly soft and grainy. I'm pretty sure for $500 I could pull this off myself.

The SG35 seems like a knockoff of the M2 design. On some of the clips it looks ok, but still seems to suffer softness, vingetting and wierdness (pumping? strobing? not sure the right word) that results from the spinning GG. Look at the Z1 nighttime clip on the SG35 site and you can see all three of these in action.
 
i'm going G35 because it looks incredible!! have you seen the monterey video?

that sold me. I'm looking to do some music videos here soon and the G35 will greatly improve my images. (it really adds to that filmic look)
 
Not to make things tougher for you Yankee, but have you looked at the Go35 or My35, which have been discussed heavily in the DIY forum, and are even lower priced?

If you can wait, waltind and I will be performing our shoot out on Feb. 25th, with side by side comparisons on multiple units (SG35, Letus35, My35, etc.) on three DVX100a's at the same time. Res charts, live model with dramatic lighting, etc. Jarred's going to post the article, after I've been able to write it up & compile all the results, on DVXuser. Should be informative & beneficial to all, I hope.

It'll also be a chance to see Dakotapod's matte box and Indie Focus' geared follow focus in action with the adapters.
 
The Letus is www.letus35.com
The SG35 is http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wayne.kinney/sg35.htm

I think I will wait for your tests. I have really given myself a headache with all these models out there and I just cannot figure out which one is worth the purchase. I have looked at the footage of a lot of units and they really look good, a little soft on some, but in general nice DOF. The problem for me is just which one to buy...

Its funny because I'm always bitching that with the corporate state sooner or later we're only going to have one choice, Walmart. This is the one time where I wish there was just one choice...
 
Yes, but the question is: If Walmart offered all your audio/visual gear at a reduced price over anyone else, would you shop there anyway?
 
As much as I hate Walmart and try never to shop there (I did buy a new shower curtain liner there this weekend) I am starting to go insane looking at all these 35mm adapters. There are literally a score of options between the DIY projects (I just checked out Weirdos and that's impressive) and the commercial ones. It is a little much to take in at once and as much as I like choice, I hate having to figure out which is going to provide the best results, the least wear on the camera (the Letus scares me), and the most bang for the least buck.

I have a hard time dropping $1500 on a 35mm adapter, but if I need to... well.
 
if I were you...just wait.
you're so undecided right now, it might be less stressful to just wait for others to give you the answers you want.

I'm sure you have projects coming up that you'd love to use an adaptor for, as do I.
For now i'm just proceeding as normal, I'm still learning as I go, so hopefully when I get my G35 I'll be that much better.
 
Envision said:
Yes, but the question is: If Walmart offered all your audio/visual gear at a reduced price over anyone else, would you shop there anyway?
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no, i'm an avid non-shopper of walmart.

I've seen them deal serious blows to my home town...we've been trying to recover since the 80's. The downtown mom and pop stores are finally starting to gain some ground and the storefronts are filling up...but I believe it's at the cost of seeing other towns die.
 
I actually completely agree and with Norm's post I'm just going to wait and see what's up with that unit. As of right now there are just too many options. Then again, I haven't checked Walmart.com yet.
 
boy, i can hardly wait to finally get mine (G35). I'm #1 in line and I'll definitely post my own reviews on it. I'm not as super-experienced with photo/video gear as most of the guys on here...but we'll see what happens.

My big dilemma is finding lenses. have you got that part figured out??
 
Ebay. If you got the canon mount then there are tons of Canon FD 1.4 50mm's available on ebay for around $20-$50.

I don't know anything about the G35 (I will in the next 20 min) so I don't know if there is a better lens to use.
 
I plan on getting the canon and nikon mounts.

Right now the only lens I own is a Sigma 1.8 20mm

I kind of want to see how the new zeiss lenses come along (nikon mount).

I have a couple friends who are photographers and they are Canon guys. So maybe I can just borrow some of their lenses.
 
I just read about the G35, and the problem is, well, there is footage of it in use, but they don't have a lot of pictures of the unit. It looks like a great device though, but I don't know anything else about it
 
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