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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted March 26, 2012 12:57 PM
The reason people still use the Anamorphic lens is quite simple
Winbert IMPACT.When you can project your film or video the
full width of your living room that kind of makes people sit up.The amateur 'scope frame is wider than commercial 'scope
as you know being 2:66x1 as opposed to 2:33x1.
Cropping film or whatever else you're shooting on means less
information being recorded and thus leading to a slight degradation in image.Try pulling the zoom back on your lens
when projecting so that the picture overlaps the screen and
that is more or less the effect you get when cropping your image.A good example of this would be when Leone made his
"Dollar"trilogy in Techniscope,which only used half the height
of the frame,so when altered for std 'scope projection, the
image was not as sharp as a normal 'scope print.Of course as
we know, the reason Leone did this was because it gave him
greater depth of field in filming.As I have said before, the ideal
solution is to ditch the zoom lens and use a Prime lens,that is
a lens of fixed focus which has less elements involved that
"steal" the very light you wish nto put up on the screen and
give a much clearer picture.All The 16mm machines are all
sold with prime lenses because of better resolution.The set up
sold by Walton Films for their 'scope projection was the Isco
Kiptagon Iscomorphot and that used a 20mm prime lens.
Coming in on the belief that there are only fifteen of these
little lenses in existance,I come back to my previous comment
that to set up the machinery,not to mention the wages of the
men involved making them,would not be commercialy viable
because I remember these things selling for around the fifty
quid mark,which at the time would have bought you a 4x400
col/snd feature,and the Widescreen Centre,had loads of them for sale along with the Centascope et al.I'm pleased Seb has
one but somehow,the idea that just because the lens was the
first doesn't mean it could be put against some of the other top
of the range anamorphics.Remember that when the first 'scope
film "The Robe" was being made,some of the scenes had to be
very carefully done as the lens was not yet perfected.It is a
miracle little lens but the advances in lens manufacture and
the German Isco company,these lenses would well out perform
the original pro lens.
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). Believe me, it worth any penny. For the moment it's on a Canon FD 50mm lens, and I'm going to try it on 40mm voigtlander classic. I tried it on pancake Holga plastic lens and was able to focus very very closed. On the Canon minimum focus distance is around 1m50. I hope I will have the same result on the Voigtlander, I suppose it's a question of flange distance... Here is some movies with it :
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