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by Atablash

2 years ago

It's my homemade Depth-of-field Adapter test. Footage shot with Canon HV20 and Canon EF f/1.8 II lens.

Please note that Vimeo doesn't keep pixel aspect ratio from WMV file. It should be 16/9 but it's scaled to 4/3.

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exte 2 years ago

Stunning. You've got a great lens there. It's a very unique look, something a young Spike Jonez or Michel Gondry might go crazy for. And you're one of the rare birds to test your DOF adapter on a human being rather than a flower, bush, plant or tree! Congrats!
parawho 2 years ago

that's so true exte!

btw, where are folks getting the instructions for these homemade dof's?
Atablash 2 years ago

DOF-related tutorials:
jetsetmodels.info/tutorials.htm

You just need SLR lens (can be very cheap, you don't need photographic quality) f/1.8, f/1.4 or even f/1.2. then a ground glass on which lens will project an image. And next, your camera. And macro lens, if you can't zoom enough the ground glass. Tutorials above explain everything.
Faran Ghahremani 2 years ago

how much did it turn out for you?
if you don't mind me asking
Atablash 2 years ago

In USD that would be...
90$ for Canon EF 50mm f/1.8
and 15-20$ for the rest - some kind of "macro lens" from an old binocular (according to tutorials should also work like an achromat, bot doesn't work for me), vibrating motor from cell phone, simple switch, battery box from small radio, 4 springs from pens, CD box (ground glass and cutted some parts from it), some wires and box from cottage cheese or something like that. And glue ;]
Jon Carpenter 2 years ago

It looks like the film jump you are talking about is something on the lens or in between the camera and the adaptor. I don't think it is the camera
MariaNYC 2 years ago

Thanks- this is fantastic- I've been looking at the shoe box fx which is somewhat similar but this has a feel onto it's own. I somehow don't see me walking around with a shoe box strapped on my camera!
Atablash 2 years ago

This strange color of the footage is caused by binocular lens used as a macro lens. These lens are ruby coated but are green when you look trough them. I've increased the red channel in "post production" to make image less greenish and so I've archieved this look by accident.

I'm planning to buy normal macro lenses or binocular with fully transparent lenses, without that green coating.