XPIMAGE speedbooster review : BETTER THAN KIPON?
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Can the little known XPIMAGE Mamiya medium format focal reducer take on the tried and tested kipon focal reducer?
In this video I take you through some footage and tests and give you my opinion and this focal reducer.
You can grab the XPIMAGE from ebay here
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0:00 intro
0:35 The Kipon Baveyes
0:55 how I got in to Mamiya lenses
1:10 Sample footage
2:41 The rise or large format cine lenses
2:57 Price
3:18 XPIMAGE overview
4:49 XPIMAGE vs KIPON
8:55 wrap up
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In this video I review the XPIMAGE focal reducer and put it up against the Kipon medium format focal reducer 
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I am LOVING that youtube is surfacing more content from smaller creators. This was great! Thanks for reviewing this :)
Thanks for watching, I hope it was helpful, I'm also glad RUclips is helping us new guys.
thank you for introducing me to this adapter.
finally a comparison ! Thanks Lee
Fire content as always 👏👏👏
Great Comparison video. Thank you for doing this!
Thanks for watching, hope it was helpful
Great review and thanks for sharing! In the market for a Pentax 67 to L mount and it doesn't look like they make they one, eh too bad, I guess Kipon it is... Love the video footage, super cinematic. Although I could've done w less/no test charts and more actual footage (as I find test charts utterly useless), excellent review overall.
I just bought the Kipon P67 to L Mount - it's currently reduced to 500 US dollars, along with the Pentax/Mamiya 645 versions... and with shipping and UK import duties added it costs about £500 delivered to UK in Sterling. As you say, an L Mount version of your focal reducer would be great for that locking mount, as otherwise it makes no sense to have to convert from EF to L Mount - especially if you want to attach an anamorphic adapter to the front.
I can hear the midlands in your voice.
Yuh Dun know I'm subbing ☝🏾
Liked Following... great videos... I have never tried MF glass in all my years of production thank you!
Thanks for this.
Great review my guy
Thanks 😊
Well, the guy that founded XPimage was a Kipon's manager that stealed the project. I tried all the version and the Kipon x0.8 are 10 times better. I have the 0.8x version of the M645-GFX and C645-GFX (great AF with all the Contax 645 lenses), they are great on my Fuji GFX 100II, I also bought the new EF-GFX (improved the AF, now is faster)
I want to get one of these for my S1H but its just way too expensive. Hopefully another brand like Viltrox make one of these for about half the price
$500 is still so expensive
I think both XPimage and Kipon are owned by the same company. XPImage stores in China sell Kipon products, and vice versa.
What’s the difference to focal length using a speed booster vs straight adapter?
It looks like the XP image is ever so slightly wider than the Kipon. Do you believe it's because the difference in cameras?
I just ordered the XP Image because of their optiom to convert the mount to PL with the focal reducer without an adapter.
Hello thanks for video! I want buy this adapter to my fx3, but you see different about original ff lens and mf lens? On video I see incredible images✨
they have a listing for an L mount version. So, they must have heard you.
No way, send me the link please
It's US Ebay. I don't know if that makes a difference.
@@StephenHildreth no makes no difference where I buy it from.
I found it 😁, looks like the KIPON will be going up for sale. thanks for the heads up,
I have a question when it comes to crop factor and focal Reducer. I actually have the 80mm 1.9 kipon to sony adapter on my A7SIII. Did you out the FX3 in crop mode before focal reducer or is that how much Image im loosing shooting with just an Adapter at full frame vs Focal Reducer?
No crop mode on the fx3 I don't even enable the image stabiliser because that so crops in. With the focal reducer the 80mm has the field of 57mm so you are loosing 23mm when you use just a normal adapter
Are you sure the labels are correct in the comparison charts? It might be that I’m watching on a phone, but one would show purple fringing in the individual shot, but then when our side by side it would be the other way around?
Interesting video nevertheless, didn’t know an alternative existed.
Wish someone would figure out an adapter for Mamiya G (6) rangefinder lenses.
Thanks for watching, I'll check that out later and update the details if needed. C7 make lots of adapters maybe check their site
I think you might be right seems mixed up on the side by sides or the other way around!
@@raylavers4216i screenshotted a ton and also found this- I do feel the xpimage is a bit sharper (or with them being switched which is definitely happening here- whichever was shot on the bluer image is a sharper adapter. Which chart was shot with a bit more contrast and blue? Kipon or xpimage? Whichever was the bluer image is the adapter Ill be buying so now am very curious lol
Interesting, Thank you! the Xp is slightly bluer purple and has a touch more contrast when compared to the Kipon. Same lighting and grading between both?
Two different cameras to be honest so it won't be identical. Lumix 55 and FX3 and then phantom Luts. For what it's worth In practical real work no I showed actually footage from both one could tell the difference.
Did you do any tests with the 80mm f1.9? Would be very curious how the two boosters compare at that f-stop because the Kipon performs quite poorly when opened up beyond f2.8.
No I don't have the 1.9 but given how close the XPIMAGE is to the KIPON in between it performs similarly
The Gafpa Forum has a great post on the use of their Aviascope 1.5x anamorphic adapter, that goes deep into selection of lenses as anamorphic taking lenses and there's lots of general insight into optics and different makes and their features. Lots of content on medium format. Gafpa are appointed service agents for Kinefinity cameras, and are dealers for their cameras, Dulens lenses and Aviascope. They seem to have some deep technical/product knowledge. I think I read there that the Mamiyas effectively have a built in diffusion filter in their optics design (something I've not read anywhere else) when used below F4, so likely the f1.9 will be soft and lower contrast wide open. MediaDivision video on these lenses uses an 80mm f1.9 on a Kipon focal reducer so you can see the difference stopping down makes.
Thanks for your review ! Did you try the XPImage without speedbooster ?
Not yet, they have a few adapters I want to try out but I haven't had the time just yet
KIPON P645/M645 to GFX/XD is 968USD now, oof.
what comparison？kipon staff stealed company's drawing to make a copy，good luck if you keep this video at youtube
Now that you've done trolling, go somewhere else.
The kipon 645 to l mount is around $500 rn, but the xpimage version is only like $50 less at $450.
I remember the kipon being $800 so this maybes sense why you said half the price, but they’re about the same price rn. Kipon is proven in a way that xpimage isn’t
The standard version of the Kipon is about the same price but the pro Locking version is still around £899, even on the website www.kipon-global.com/product-page/focal-reducer-lock-style-version-for-mamiya-645-lens-on-sony-e-mount-camera