anamorphic report

Can you post any stills? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

i posted here a little while ago under mishkin madness, but since "they" have buggered it up again, i am now mr stockblack!

anyway, i queried the use of an "anamorphic" i had bought and yet to try out, well i shot a heap of stuff, got it back, and i am converted! although i am not sure if the lens is a proper wide screen or anamorphic lens, as it was standard in the case of an old canon518sv, but the resulting image was great. there was not the squeezed image i expected on the film, but there is slight "concave"? effect at the edges of the film image.

the difference was massive! i shot say 10seconds normal lens, then the same subject with the ana' lens to test the difference.

and the ana' lens tends to throw the camera back about 5 feet!
and the quality appears not to have suffered at all, as some have said may be a problem.
anyway, i thought i would share this great info.

the origional "mr blackstock"

yeah,

although the picture will be ****** because i did my own "digitising", but i will post some tommorow, wednesday.

for some reason i cannot put pictures onto the hostboard, and by the way, i did not swear in the last post, i think the word was b u g g e r e d
my apologies computer!

if anyone wants to see the images, i can post them out via my email address, [email protected].

or somebody might tell me how to upload files from a disk, not a web page.

thanks

Because Hostboard hosts over a thousand forums, they have to be careful about bandwidth allocation. They give the moderators some picture posting pictures on the actual forum itself, but when it comes to hosting pictures on an actual topic, you need to have an image hosting service.

If you'd like to jpep them to me at my email address listed on my profile card on this forum, I will post them on the forum where my letters currently reside.
(it's about time for a change anyway).

They need to be in jpeg mode, around 35-50K.
Looking forward to it.

although i dread to drag a topic from the bottom of the list, a kind soul has pointed out that my lens is not anamorphic!

the issue is that widescreen squeezes the image, so after processing the image is "wider" that is what i understand widescreen to be.

yet with my lens that was not the case, although it fits more into the frame(an appreciable amount!)and i think the manual said it was an ana' lens, what on earth lens do i have?

from the film i shot with it, there was what i think is vignetting, an acceptable amount for me.

is this a type of fish eye lens? or is it a wannabe widescreen lens? although i will continue to use it, i would really like somebody to let me know what it is!?

it came in the case with a canon 518SV, thanks

Gareth, formerly mr blackstock, formerly mr stockblack!

It's perfectly acceptable to drag a topic from the bottom of this page back to the top, and from pages 2 and beyond.

Someone pointed out to you that your lens was not anamorphic, well, I guess the email fairries are at work again [img]graemlins/chat.gif[/img] wielding their special brand of magic, because they didn't post their comment here on the forum for others to benefit from. Anyway, back to your question, you probably have an aspheric lens, aka a wide angle attachment. If you can zoom through the lens attachment but lose focus, than you have an aspheric wide angle lens.

o.k,

the "aspheric" lens sounds cloer to mine, as it also comes with a sleeve to put over the focus numbers, in effect shortening the range. thank you alex, i have no idea what i have, but now i know the name!?

do you know anything else on the lens? does it cause serious vignetting? ( i have not seen so yet) are there disadvantages?

thanks.

It would be helpful if you could post everything that is written on the lens. The Ashperic lens can
"widen" your field of view by a factor of three.

My 7.0 lens is reduced to almost a 4.0mm lens and it can be a very useful effect. I can't see using it all the time however as with mine, I can't zoom through it, it must strictly be used in the wide angel mode.