My first Cinemascope (2.66) shooting test!

[jukkasil]

That's right!

I just bought Proskar Ishiko 2x anamorphic lens from ebay and
received it from UK two days ago.

I'm planing to start shooting test footage soon with my Leicina Super Rt.
At the first I have to design universal support for that lens and Bauer (A 512) mattebox same time in the same camera.

I already found out yesterday, I can use the part of my old Meopta photo enlargement machine to make suitable support for that lens/matte box-combination.

Basically I have planned to test both super 8 and mini dv camera to get more information, which is possible and isn't.

I already made one very primitive test with my mini-dv camera (Sony PC-100). I used tripod holding the Am-lens in the front of videocamera, here are the result I get:

http://www.sorb-i-tol.com/mycinemascopetest.html

Don't care about image quality, it's shot with mini dv and we had very ugly weather during my test shooting.

I don't want to burn any super 8 film to these kind of tests.

At the first I have to make that lens support, then I'll shoot also with my Leicina and put some better looking examples to my net-server.

So, the final aspect ratio is 2.66:1. I used Canopus Video Doctor Tools to scale image to the right ratio.

At the bottom of page you'll find two video mpg-files (both 3 Mbytes) containing both unscaled and scaled versions of same material.

[Konton]

Great Stuff! Glad to see someone else trying anamorphic. Hey, if you have not seen my page on anamorphic yet, you can check it out here:
http://www.super8mm.org/arsenal.html

Now I feel like I need to show some examples of what it looks like as you have. Let me know how the mount you are building works out. I just went out and bought one.

[Matt Pacini]

Well, good luck to ya.
I sure was disappointed in the results of my aborted venture into widescreen Super 8.
Which is too bad, because I was really excited about it.

The biggest problem with it is, you have to have a S8 camera with a really small lens diameter to work with the anamorphic adapters out there.
Unless you've found a way to remove your lens and put an anamorphic in there, which I doubt.

Has anyone on this board actually successfully gotten one of these systems to work?
Don't say yes, if you can't back it up with footage examples!
I mean, REALLY WORK, not just "I'm almost there" stuff!
Because I'd still love to do it, if I could get it to work with my Nizo 6080 (still gotta shoot with a quiet camera!)

Matt Pacini