You can mod them yourself, Tito Ferradans has a blog post with videos on how to anamorfake a Helios, you can buy a few from randos on Ebay, or you can get a more polished and fully modded one from Dog Schidt Optiks (i have 2 of them with 2x oval bokeh, one with scratches and dirt and no coating, and one with 2x oval, clean optics, nice modern-ish coating, and a customized body with focus scale on the side and a metal focus gear).I've been using 5D3 Magic Lantern RAW for a few years now and it's my personal gold standard for image quality as I'm very familiar with it, can predict the results I'll get in various situations and have developed my own look that I like using in post. Also worth looking into if you want the anamorphic look are modded Helios lenses. I just got it this week and haven't played with it much, but it seems pretty cool, although I definitely need to use my Shogun when using it since the a7Sii doesn't have desqueeze.
You focus the 2x and taking lens to infinity (luckily my isco star 2x lets you lock focus) and then you focus with the Rangefinder. SLR magic rangefinder is only $300 for the non-focus scale marked version ($600 for focus scale) and you need a clamp (~$50 for vid atlantic one) to clamp onto the front of the 2x lens and then screw the Rangefinder onto there. It's only an introduction to this kind of image for me, so I prefer to stay as cheap as possible.Īnd by the way what's your way of getting focus with the adapter ? anamorphic first, then the main lens ? Do you do it with a measuring tape, or only by view on the monitor ? Right now I can afford to throw 300$ for a cheap adapter/clamp/diopters that'll allow me to get nice images even though it will be a little harder, and when I need to shoot the actual big project I'll just rent the big guns. adapters, but it becomes a little too expensive for something that still isn't that good. The dual focus stuff is quite a pain indeed, but I think I'll be using it only in projects, fiction where I'll have some kind of a camera assistant, who will help to get the focus much faster, as well as being able to rack focus with some marks if needed. I really don't mind about the blue streak (as a matter of fact, I kinda prefer not to have it, too close to SF style for general stuff in my opinion). Great video, congratulations ! This was all shot with your helios ? ( I have the 44-2, I don't know the differences if there are any) Did you use diopters for that ? It would be great help, and you would definitely do something good for the world by helping me to NOT record some FREAKING 3.55:1 ASPECT RATIO, here I go again, sorry, sorry. It doesn't seem hard, anamorphic desqueeze (that already exists) + zoom in the image of about 1.5x, that stays this way during the recording. So here's the final question : is there any way to actually liveview only the center 4/3 of the sensor (+ the anamorphic desqueeze), or maybe even to crop the recording, only at the 4/3 center part ? (maybe doing that would even enable magiclantern to get somehow a better resolution or at least bitrate ? (or this might be a completly stupid question, so just tell me in that case haha ) ) But in order to liveview this, the only solution I found is to make custom cropmarks, which makes the image in the center of the screen, with black bars all around it, and making it harder to see the shot. So the way to go is to crop the left and right side of the image (I know it defeats the whole resolution boost anamorphics are supposed to give, but I'm really not here for that and what's more it'll cut out the softer parts of the image due to the adapter) sticking back to the aspect ratio I want.
#Magic lantern cinescope ratio full#
Anyways, I want to keep that 2.35 aspect ratio which is in my opinion quite incredible and full of possibilities composition-wise. The thing is, these old adapters are all 2x squeeze, which gives this 3.55:1 aspect ratio on a 16:9 sensor, that you can see on every anamorphic test ever and I just HATE that. Now I know it's not at all the easiest thing, and there are lots of drawbacks, but I'm really digging the look, and it would be a way for me to begin. Here's the thing : I own some Canon DSLR with magic lantern, and as an introduction into anamorphic photography, I might buy some time soon a projector adapter that'll allow me to shoot anamorphics. Hello ! I've done my research, and although it seems some people asked stuff close to this question, i didn't actually find an answer (and noone answered me on the ML forum).
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