< < BACK TO CHAPTER VA - LOMO - EPISODE 01 VB - ISCORAMAS - EPISODE 02 For the second episode, I went with the holy grail of anamorphic adapters, the Iscoramas. This decision was based on a key factor: their image quality and sharpness is excellent even at fast apertures like f/2 or f/2.8. Since my …
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< < BACK TO CHAPTER V - ZONA SSP VA - LOMO - EPISODE 01 Episode 01 is a very bright chapter, with lots of sunlight, exterior shots and well-lit environments. Taking advantage of all this available light, we went with LOMOs, real cinema lenses, but that require lots of light for optimal performance. …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IVA - CUSTOM CROPMARKS V - ZONA SSP Zona SSP started out as a webseries project for a random class in which I was able to experiment with everything we're not usually encouraged to do at the traditional film production classes. I wrote and directed both episodes. Besides that, I …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IV - MAGICLANTERN RAW IVA - CUSTOM CROPMARKS MagicLantern's first use when combined with anamorphic lenses was the design of custom cropmarks. These are drawings that are placed on top of the image that is being shot, which allow previewing a different frame format than the one …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIH - FAKING THE LOOK IV - MAGICLANTERN RAW MagicLantern is an alternate software that runs on top of many Canon DSLR's firmware. A group of hackers and programmers started to study Canon's source code around 2009 and quickly achieved some advantages over the original firmware. …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIG - ANAMORPHIC LENS-YCLOPEDIA FAKING THE LOOK In spite of all the magic involving anamorphic lenses, there are situations where it's much easier (and cheaper) to fake the anamorphic look than to use the actual lenses. Over the last couple years a bunch of different options …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIF - DIOPTERS, OR CLOSE-UPS ANAMORPHIC LENS-YCLOPEDIA After almost one year of experimenting, researching, many lenses bought and sold, I realised how much time was wasted just looking for important and trustworthy pieces of information or user tips regarding a lot of lenses. …