I don't really know how any of those situations would change the performance of the adapter, but all will be revealed when I put up "Broken Minds" on sf.com, in about a month. It was shot entirely with the adapter.
I can tell you from my personal experience with it, however, that moving and panning definately don't have any effect on its performance, as most of the movie was filmed hand-held.
I say that because it is such a huge add on physically and to hand hold it looks challenging. Just trying to handhold the add on micro 35 I used on my GL-2 takes a bit of getting used to. Please do let the forum know when we can see it.
-Todd
12:45... Restate my assumptions.
Posts: 126 | Location: Los Diablos, CA | Registered: May 02, 2005
The Micro35 is a good deal more bulky than the Letus35. The Letus is a circular, lens-type add-on while the micro35 is a metal box. I assure you the Letus is quite manageable, even with a matte box and rod system attached, which can even be removed.
The rod system is a Cavision model, the same that Dan uses for his MPIC. B&H is a distributor but never has it in stock; it must be special-ordered.
The gear is one of his, yes; he offered one free gear to five people under 21 as a sort of show of support of the younger generation of filmmakers, if you will. I definately knew I was getting a FF (I have the indifocus now, and Tim Ovel is shipping me a cine-pitch gear to use with it) and I figured why not.
setup looks good.. i have the same free gear from dan for only being 20. use my letus with my xl1s.. ive ben considering the flip version. any thoughts on it?
Posts: 4 | Location: saint john, nb, Canada | Registered: December 21, 2005
I've always had a sober outlook on the flip version--why sacrifice image quality when you can do something digitally in post, with zero quality loss? I just take all my footage into After Effects and flip it, set it to Render all, and leave it on overnight. By the next day I have all of my footage ready to edit. However I can see that perhaps in a business where time is money, the flip version is essential. I'd wait until Quyen has all the ghosting issues ironed out before I'd buy it though.
Unfourtunantly, it's not being sold to the public yet, but it's supposed to be released publicly pretty soon. IMO, if I was ever to use a 35mm adapter, it would be this one, all the demo footage is simply amazing.
It is indeed a solid adapter--however it's $1300. It was pimped before as the only working static adapter until they decided to make it a moving design.
However Johnathan is a very ambitious entrepreneur and everyone trusts that his product will perform very well no matter what the design once it's released. I believe they took preorders a few weeks ago, and the list filled up fast.
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