Seb Farges sent me the link to his next tiny anamorphic lens test with the GH2 and Canon 50mm FD lens. As you know he is using the small and cheap [shoplink 25880 ebay]Berthiot Tiny Cinemascope 2X[/shoplink] to realize these videos. Enjoy!
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18 Responses
This guy is going to get hit by one of those megatrams. Be careful Seb!
I seem to recall another video by this guy where he shows his setup at the beginning. It looked like a super 8 anamorphic lens taped onto another lens using gaffer’s tape. Can’t argue with his results though. Beautiful footage.
The video is a little bit squashed, isn’t it?
yes Marco, maybe a little too much squashed, even if I did 50% in post equivalent to this 2X lens. Im my last one I did a little less, trying to find the good ratio. Yes ght this is a Super 8 anamorphic lens, put with a small clamp on a 50mm Canon lens. But this Berthiot is rare, but so tiny and light !
http://vimeo.com/39510554
Seb, what movie is that music from? I recall hearing it but can’t remember the movie. I’d like to experiment with anamorphic but there’s no simple solution. I mean, the simple solution is getting a Panasonic LA7200 but those now go for around $1,000 used! And those Cinemorph filters are not the same.
love the colortones, indeed its aspect seems squeezed a bit. I can imagine it would look great when watching on one of those Philips 21:9 Cinema tv’s!
was thinking the same
@ admin, there’s a box office movie that made using micro fourthird camera (Panasonic AG-AF100 & GH2). it is The Raid : Redemption
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899353/
The Raid: Redemption’s Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1, just like most Hollywood movies.
It’s playing at a theater about fifteen miles from me, I’ll go check-it-out.
hi c.d.embrey, go see it, you would not regret it 😉
here’s the cinematographer blog entry on the cam used during filming:
http://matt-flannery.blogspot.com/2011/02/start.html
Cool video
I keep wishing Panasonic would realize there’s a huge interest in anamorphic video and remake the LA7200 for micro four thirds users. The price of those things has gone through the roof. Would sell far better than that 3d lens.
There may be a big demand from hobbyists, bur little demand from viewers. Many, if not most, people don’t like watching “Letterboxed” movies. That’s why “Pan ans Scan” was invented http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan
Most do like watching letterboxed and hate pan-and-scan. Pan-and-scan is a legacy of old, small TVs. Now everybody has big TVs with proper aspect ratios so most prefer letterbox.
I am surprised they even sell pan-and-scan versions of movies anymore. Certainly there’s very, very little demand.
As good quality as anyone needs really. Who needs 4k anyway? 😉
I think the shooter needs to use a tripod though, the video seemed to be shaking a bit, other than that I wouldn’t be able to tell it was an amateur that did it.
yeah i noticed that too, and it distracted me quite a bit during the video.
Shooting a chart would do the trick for proper scaling.
I have just sent this link to the Lord Mayor of Sydney and suggested that George St needs this transport.