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14. Sunset Dump Truck

by Stu Maschwitz

27 days ago

13. Vanamorphic

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12. Stu Maschwitz Director's Reel

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11. Red Giant TV Episode 22: Creating a Summer Blockbu…

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10. Overdramatic Geese

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9. Vines

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8. Chapter 12: After the Subway

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7. GH1 Live MOS Skew

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6. Stu Maschwitz's Commercial Reel 090224

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5. Stu's Director Reel (short)

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4. The Green Project

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3. Southwest "Fender Bender"

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2. Go-35 Example Footage

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1 year ago

1. Lightroom 2.0 Speed Session

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2 years ago

Canon 7D with Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens. Mounted to that with a stepper ring is a Iscorama-Anamorphot 1.5x-54 (Isco-Göttingen) anamorphic lens. Focus the 50 to infinity and then do the actual focussing with the Isco. Minimum focus distance is 2m. Footage must be stretched in post. Also a light touch with Colorista of course, primary-only.

These lenses are starting to show up on eBay, and unfortunately the sellers are very aware of what we anamorphic fans will pay.

To those commenters wondering about how this kind of lens improves the quality of the image: It does not. Save yourself the trouble. This is a very expensive, cumbersome quality-reduction lens. If that doesn't make sense to you, then just move along.

But maybe give DIE HARD or CLOSE ENCOUNTERS another watch sometime...

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pixelrock 27 days ago

beautiful anamorphic flares (&crop)...do have some more material?
Is there any affordable way to shoot anamorphic on the 7D ?
greetings Matthias
Maik Thomas 27 days ago

nice lensflare - is this a real lf ?
Mr Ian Lawton 27 days ago

Very impressive, what's the lens?
Stephen Lewis 27 days ago

I don't understand the advantage of shooting with an anamorphic lens. Especially since you need to stretch in post.
dbr 27 days ago

Pretty lens-flares?
jehu Garcia 27 days ago

Higher rez, you use the whole censor instead of just cropping the top an d the bottom off
Stephen Lewis 27 days ago

Is that the case with the 7D?
Hugh Macdonald 27 days ago

What jehu Garcia said... On a predominantly 4:3 recording surface, shooting for 2.35 means cropping a lot off the top and bottom. As an example, 35mm film, scanned for DI, or VFX is usually scanned at 2048x1556. After removing the soundtrack area, and cropping down to 2.35, the actual picture area is 2048x871 (about 1.7 megapixels, if you like to think in them). Now that's only a 150-odd more pixels high than NTSC/PAL is wide. However, if you shoot anamorphic, you get to have twice the vertical resolution... Anamorphic, in my experience, usually has the soundtrack area taken off, so your image data is 1828x1556 (2.8 megapixels)
john lewis 27 days ago

thanks for the details hugh.
Tracey Lee 25 days ago

Wrong...sorry guys. The anamorphic lens does not increase the resolution. On the contrary, it decreases the resolution since you have to stretch it back out in post. Using one on a film camera is a different story. The "look" is what one is after...nothing more. But it's a great look!
Stephen Lewis 25 days ago

Thanks Tracey,
Yeah, I thought the stretching would reduce resolution, very nice look though! I can see how people would go crazy over these lenses!
Paul Zadie 27 days ago

Mucho cinematico!
Jack Kelly 27 days ago

Looks lovely.

But there's definitely something slightly unpleasant (to my eye, at least) happening in there. If you pause at 1 second (when the entire of the van is in shot but the van is still to the right of frame) then you can see some upside-down reflections of the highlights superimposed on the bottom right of the van. The most aethetically upsetting reflection is the tall, rectangle shaped reflection. It looks like the same sort of issue you might get shooting lens flares with a filter on the lens (which I've always guessed is caused by the flare bouncing off the front element of the lens onto the filter and back into the lens).

I would guess that what we're seeing here is the flare bouncing off the front of the 50mm lens onto the back element of the Isco and back into the 50mm??? Or perhaps the bouncing light causing the unpleasant reflection is happening within the Isco? But I'm totally guessing. (of course, I totally acknowledge that part of the beauty of lens flares are the exquisite "artefacts" produced by the light bouncing off the aperture and between the lens elements... but we're seeing something different here, I think).

But maybe I'm being picky!
Richard Williams 27 days ago

"Aesthetically upsetting..." WHAT?!? I love those quirky little apparitions in the flare. It's far better than some vfx preset added in post.
Jack Kelly 26 days ago

Are you sure we're looking at the same thing? I love the most prominent elements of the flare (the horizontal flares are stunning and I quite like the colourful upside-down-V-shaped flare in the bottom right of the frame). But it's the less intense, rectangular flare in the bottom right of the image that worries me. I'd be willing to bet that you wouldn't get that part of the flare if you were shooting with a spherical lens only or an anamorphic lens only.. I think we're seeing light bounce around between the two lenses and I, personally, don't like that rectangular flare.
Tom @ Timescapes 27 days ago

Nice flare.
ailatanotos 27 days ago

Nice, yes.
john lewis 27 days ago

oooh... anamorphic lens flare is pretty, and in a manly way too.
ben syverson 27 days ago

I want to try mounting my Kowa 1.75X anamorphic to the 5D, but rotating it 90° for square format video!
Eric Ferguson 26 days ago

So beautiful. But stu... this lens costs MORE than the 7D. Although I guess that's true of a lot of L glass...

Still though, surely there's a cheaper way?
ben syverson 26 days ago

If you want cheap, crop. I don't think Stu is looking to save any money with this rig...
Tracey Lee 25 days ago

Stu, it looks like you found that making it a 21:9 ratio is more correct than actually multiplying the horizontal distance by 1.5? Do you think it's not a true 1.5x lens?
alan doyle 15 days ago

quote. This is a very expensive, cumbersome quality-reduction lens.

stu. since you do not rate the lens,i will give you 200 dollars. pm please.
the isco is by far the best lens of it's type and i have seen some fantastic clips.it is a quality bit of sharp glass.
i believe these are the clips that got everyone in the 5d world hot for it.
richlee.com/Tests/Isco_02small.mov
richlee.com/Tests/Isco_01bsmall.mov
Tracey Lee 10 days ago

Alan have you tried your Isco yet?
alan doyle 10 days ago

that's quite funny and quite sad.
i am in financial hell and have not got anything to use it on yet.
been selling a load of stuff and will probably buy the panasonic gh1 or even the olympus ep1.
the main reason for the ep1 is i have seen lots of pretty boring work,i cannot believe it is all the cameras fault...
i had 3 iscos and now down to my last one which is the keeper a super sharp 36.
Tracey Lee 9 days ago

I'm in the same boat Alan (financial hell indeed). I sold almost all of my equipment to get the 7D...I would have sold my isco too but I dropped it and it cracked the plastic focusing housing. It still works great but with the crack I can't sell it...so I am actually kinda glad that happened.