Review of the Vizelex Rhinocam for the Sony a7R II and a7S II
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5 Responses
Nice informative and well detailed review of the Vizelex Rhinocam. But it looks like it is quite useless piece of gear… at least for me. Pretended to provide more stability and reproducibility it obviosly still has a bunch of issues like wobbly construction, framing difficulties and strangely some occasional stitching-problems. I think I will stay with my more versatile nodal point adapter (which is apparently more compact as well) and use Brenitzer method with high-end 35mm-FF lenses which are still twice less expensive as Mamiya or Hassy
QQ. how well does the Brenitzer method work with the distortion brought about by wider angle lenses?
I didn’t use it with wide angle lenses since the main reason to use this method, is achieving the extra narrow DOF together with outcoming wide angle. So primary you need normal up to portrait focal lenghts for that. But this method is actually not different from normal panoramic stitching with wide angle lenses
Even BMW is going mirrorless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm6V-CeAuCg
Keep in mind that whenever you adapt lenses made for larger format sensors onto smaller format sensors, you lose perceptual megapixels (MP) making the image look less sharp. This is because you are only using part of the glass. As a result when stitching via photoshop, you will achieve a larger sized picture (higher MP), however, it won’t be tac sharp at 100% crop due to less perceptual MP per photo taken. For example, use a full frame lens from Nikon & mount it onto a APS-C Sony a6000. Then, compare the sharpness of the image to that same lens mounted to a full frame Nikon camera with similar MP. You’ll notice you lose sharpness due to less perceptual MP even though the actual MP is roughly the same.