Anamorphic lens fun

[Hamish Gill]

You might have heard of the phrase Anamorphic wide screen. It comes from a system wherein a converter was screwed on to a cinema lens that would effectively compress a wider format image into a normal width of film. This compressed image would then be projected through a projector that had a similar converter on it making it wide again. As far as I know it is where wide screen formats came ...

I have a fascination with the results of using these lenses, but more on that in a min...

Here is the lens


Schneider es cinelux anamorphic 2x by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr

here is what it looks like when i take a photo with the rx100 held up to the back of it ... I have to zoom in quite far to get it to not vignette ... its also hard to focus as the converter its self focuses with an allen key!


Straight from the rx100 by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr

and here it is after some tinkering in photoshop


converted in ps by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr

so what is the point in all this...
well, not long ago there was a new star trek film and they added loads of flare, i assume it was done as part of the grading process... one way or another I really like it!
I have since found out that that look comes from flare caused by the use of anamorphic lenses ... like this


Straight from the rx100 by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr

and stretched


converted in ps by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr

Love it!
Just gotta find something better to take a picture of than the glow of my iphone torch!

I have also got to try and find a way to attach it to my rx100 in a better way than just holding it in front!

fun fun fun ... this is my diy project by the way

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I LOVE IT!

You know how partial I am to 16:9 - this looks even wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiderrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wow. You're going to have a lot of fun playing with that. Just don't upload the shots of your penis!

 

[David Mitchell]

Wow that looks awesome

 

[Pete Askew]

Excellent Hamish. That works really well. Any ideas on how to fix it. After our discussion you got me rummaging about of eBay too. So far I have resisted!

 

[Ben Jennings]

Very cool, I'm jealous!

 

[Hamish Gill]

I should be a lot wider Chris anamorphic widescreen is about 21x9 I think ... Not sure I get that out of this mind ... Wiiiiiiiiiiddddddeeeee though

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Very cool, I'm jealous!

You got a baby yet?

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Excellent Hamish. That works really well. Any ideas on how to fix it. After our discussion you got me rummaging about of eBay too. So far I have resisted!

Haha, I'm still looking too! If like somthing I can focus now ... I'm thinking about one of the lomo made ones as they are pretty cheap!


As for fixing it, yes ... Well not so much fixing it, but haveing a way to locate it the same each time!


I discovered that a Cokin A mounting ring slots snuggly into the back of it. This gave me a choice of 52 or 58mm thread. I used the 52mm and had it mounted directly on the end of my Nikon 135mm lens. Unfortunately the results were very poor!
The is a company called carry speed that do a magnetically mounting threaded ring for the front of the rx100 though, that would give me a 52mm thread on the rx100.
MIT won't hold the lens on the front of the camera, but it will locate it if you follow! Then it's time for some video!

 

[Ben Jennings]

No baby yet! Last midwife app tomorrow, if no show will be induced prob a week today as they do inducing during the week, so in the next 7 days.

 

[Brian Moore]

I love the wide look on these, Hamish. Really cool!

 

[Beth Carter]

bet you're wife loves this lens, instantly slims her.. until you stretch it back out. focusing with an allen key? wow, i guess they didn't want to make it too easy.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Looking for somthing easier to focus now ... There is a ebook on eoshd that I think I'm Oing to buy when I get a bit further with all this ...

 

[Paul Lange]

Wow. You're going to have a lot of fun playing with that. Just don't upload the shots of your penis!

Haha! Reminds me of an episode of Red Dwarf (did anyone else watch that) Criton becomes human and wonders what the thing between his legs is. He shows Lister a Polaroid of it who is shocked and then even more shocked when Criton gives him the second Polaroid showing the rest of it.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Haha ... Red Dwarf X on Dave soon!!
they all look old!! Apart from Danny John Jules who looks like he has been in stasis