anamorphic-a-day :: #72

Something wicked this way comes.

anamorphic-a-day :: #46

Go big or go home?  How about a light painting using the Sun.  That's pretty big.

Been meaning to do something like this for a while.  300 images of a sun rise taken at 20sec intervals. Images were then combined in The Foundry's NUKE to form the light trail caused by the arc of the Sun's ascension.

NUKE, chomped through and combined all images to make an average, and a max filtered version (where only the highest value between two adjacent images is preserved).  Then by combining those two images we get this.

The lens was a vintage Canon FD 28mm, with a 1970s era Iscorama 54 anamorphic adaptor.  The combined flaws from this old gear really became apparent, and help create the vintage mood.

anamorphic-a-day :: #44

Sun is crowning.

anamorphic-a-day :: #43

Sawblade Falls.  Sounds like a horror movie, looks like this.

anamorphic-a-day :: #42

Boards of Canada meets Mulder and Scully.

anamorphic-a-day :: #41

Warning.  Toga/laurel wreath wearers at work in this area.

anamorphic-a-day :: #31

Crow trails.  Again, another example of a picture I've been meaning to take for a long time.  About 470 separate images combined to make this singular image. Slightly lower resolution as I used the BlackMagic Cinema Camera to record the crow footage.

[full size here]

anamorphic-a-day :: #30

"The engineers were here.".  Ok, not quite Prometheus.  This is a quadruple-exposure.  Each time the tide had risen, which is how the water looks a bit like mist.

[full size here]

anamorphic-a-day :: #21

First times: snowshoeing & visiting Grouse Mountain.  Fun stuff.  Not double checking camera settings and accidentally capturing images at 1080p jpeg as opposed to 4k RAW kind of sucked though.  Fortunately I managed to get some decent stuff out of it.  Here's one of the images.

anamorphic-a-day :: #8

Supermarket ice sitting on foil, with IKEA LED lights.  Using an Iscorama 54 with a more conservative/practical 1.33x squeeze as opposed  to Kowa's insane 2x.  The 135mm FD was fairly wide open with a diopter.  Somewhere in there is a sharp plane of focus.  Would have been nice to have more of the details on that plane ie have more sharpness.  Oh well, another time.

Also, the results  of all this are 2.35:1, which is a cinematic standard.  Oddly enough I've kind of got used to 32:9 though!

Success beyond expectation!

Well isn't this a turn up for the books.  After many months of trying I have finally won an Iscorama 54.  Or rather more specifically, an Isco-Optic 16:9 Video Attachment with a 54mm rear optical port.  Not only that, the person I bought it from turns out to be a true gentleman, kindly giving much valuable advice.

Essentially, this would appear to be the perfect adaptor, in my view.  It has a 1.33x horiz squeeze (on account of it being intended to turn 4:3 to 16:9.  Of course this means that it turns a 16:9 native camera like the Lumix into a 2.35:1 device.  Perfect!  I didn't even know these existed.  It is optically wonderful.

You set the taking lens (FD Primes in my case) to infinite focus (or sometimes just under) and then focusing to your heart's content using the Isco's focus ring, which is smooth and controllable.  The adaptor even has a locking system to allow you to orientate the anamorphot so that it's correctly vertical.   That's really really useful.  No more messing around with tape on the ring threads to change the bite point, or using a star filter with the glass smashed out to give you rotational freedom.

Honestly, I couldn't be happier.  It's a heavy so and so, but sturdy and the camera/lens assembly deals with it well, though will probably get a rails/rod support system at some point.

But anyway, I'm a very happy bunny.  I just wish I had two cos I'm permanently paranoid about dropping it!  If you find one of these, get it.  No thought required.