SLR Magic 2x Anamorphic Test HD from Jurek Ugarow on Vimeo.
SLRmagic will launch their second Anamorphot lens in 2015. it’s a 2X Anamorphoto and Jurek Ugarow is the first person who tested the lens and realized the video above (with the GH4). The lens will probably ship from Q2 2015 and there is yet no price info. Videomaker will be happy about that news also because current Anamorphot are very expensive! SLRmagic first 1.33x Anamorphot is now in Stock for $899 only at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
This is how the new 2x Anamorphot looks:
For those of you who don’t know why those kind of lenses are useful read that official BHphoto description text:
Creating a widescreen 2.35:1 image using a camera with a 16:9 (1.78:1) sensor requires you to either crop the image or use an anamorphic lens attachment such as the SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33X – 50 Anamorphic Lens Attachment. The SLR Magic adapter features a 1.33x anamorphic element that allows you to use the your cameras entire 16:9 sensor to get a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, as opposed to throwing away information by cropping the 16:9 sensor to achieve an image with a 2.35:1 ratio. Cropping an image causes a loss in resolution, but the Anamorphot 1.33x – 50 is actually squeezing more information onto your sensor. This does result in your recorded footage having the classic tall/thin squeezed image. However, this is easily expanded to a 2.35:1 aspect ratio in most NLE systems, and cameras with variable display adjustments allows you to stretch your image in the viewfinder.
The Anamorphot mounts onto your taking lens and features three locking screws that you tighten to secure the adapter once you have aligned it on your taking lens. Please note you can only use the Anamorphot on lenses with a non-rotating front, otherwise the anamorphic effect will rotate as you change focus. The Anamorphot’s native mounting thread size is 62mm and will mount directly to lenses that feature 62mm filter threading. The included three step-down rings allow you to mount the attachment on optional lenses with a 49, 52, or 58mm front thread. You can use the adapter on lenses that feature a front filter thread larger than 62mm by using optional step-up rings, however optimum results are not guaranteed, and SLR magic recommends using the adapter on lenses with a front element that is physically smaller than 50mm in diameter. The Anamorphot features a Normal/Near adjustment setting. SLR Magic recommends setting the adapter to Normal, and only adjusting the setting to Near when shooting objects closer than 6.5 feet.
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How exactly is this promotion for SLR Magic? The image quality is far from very good. Also, I don’t call $899 ‘only’, it’s still expensive.
For a new anamorphic one it is very cheap!
And cheap is what you get.
Wrong, SLRmagic’s first 1.33x Anamorphot is very nice. Almost was considering it myself yesterday! So this is good timing. May get this one instead, if it turns out as well as I expect it will.
Legacy Anamorphics lens are really expensives. Better to get a new one, the SLR magic x1.33 at 899$.
That video looks….not so good.
Does this lens come with a lens pouch lined with beard hair?
Seriously that video was garbage. Do people not look at their videos before they bother posting them!? And this was supposed to be our first impression of this lens?? That video was not doing any favors for the GH4 either…
Is just a first test piece. But yeah… could’ve been better :-/
i agree with you but the lens ana. will release on Q2 2015. Be lucky we already have a footage now… on 2014. Me, i really want to know if this 2x, will working with the Voigtlander 17.5mm? because that was not the case with the 1.33x version (but work with the 25mm voigtlander).
Man the difference between 2X and 1.33X is pretty big
very widescreen only works 100% when watchin on a really big screen or better in projection. And in movie productions where a good director makes optimal use of it in a more dramatic way.
does this 2x version work with a voigtlander 17.5mm? Because the 1.33x doesnt.
Hard to see how well the lens works obscured by so much ironic beard.
Wish he’d pan left/right more, it would make it easier to get a sense of how the anamorphic adaptor’s angle affects sense of depth (parallax).
Ah that was shot at the beards convention… really cool 🙂
The 1.33x is actually fantastic for the price, sharp and gives a subtle but nice ‘feeling’ of ananorphic, although it doesn’t tick all the ‘anamorphic look’ boxes. The 2x version should tick them all (waterfall bokeh, horiztonal flares, vastly expanded field of view horizontally etc). Wait until we get finished units – i’m sure it will deliver.
I’ll put my homemade handheld Invention up against this (on the basis of the above Video) anytime !
Part 1 is the (long boring?) Theory of this new technique ‘specifically designed’ (key words) for Digital Cameras (unlike the Anamorphot, and indeed every other Anamorphic Lens – since they were all designed for Film and _possible_ later Digital Transfer to 2-4K).
If you cobbled together my Invention it would cost a bit less (if you did a super good job), I made my Demo Kit from stuff lying around the House (so my Video is nowhere near as it could be), the Parts cost me nothing..
Part 2 is the ‘In your Face’ Demo. Put on your Headphones (crank it if yer deaf) and drink it in.
As final insult to all I “filmed” my Video on a Cellphone. My Lens also has a variable ratio.
I did no “Processing” except for Post Digital Image Stabilization (using DeShaker).