Watch THIS before you buy the Moment Anamorphic Adapter
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- The Moment 1.33x anamorphic adapter is an interesting piece of kit that isn't without flaws. Watch this video for test footage, and a full review.
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00:00 Intro
00:18 managing weight and setup
03:13 character and vignetting
04:18 price and accessories
05:12 compatibility
05:45 Open Gate
06:36 stabilisation
07:01 is 1.33x enough?
07:55 focus
09:08 pixel peeping character
09:47 why buy?
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What do you reckon? I really like some of the footage! But it is a chonky boi 😂 would you buy one?
I've been testing a Cinelux Anamorphic (2x) system on my GH6; I 100% agree chonky is the name of the game with anamorphic lenses.
On the fence myself if I'd purchase another adapter style anamorphic such as this, it would be nice to test and compare of course. However long term I think I'm going to hold out (and save up) for a set of anamorphic prime lenses as adapter hassles can be quite pronouced as you pointed out in your video.
Great review. How did you find orientating the lens? was it easy? I have the original MFT Sirui's 1.33x - so thinking of either getting the Great Joy adapter or this for that extra squeeze! Would love to see a comparison between the Moment, the Sirui 1.25x & the Great Joy. The moment looks great and great for those L mount primes being 67mm but at a grand, it sure is pricy for an adapter!
@@CUTSUK the little button on the side makes it really simple to align. Just need to match the white line to the top of the camera 😊
@@CUTSUK Great Joy is of interest as well, but I mainly shoot vidoe with MFT so I'd like a MFT solution vs. full frame (which I use more for photography).
I'm torn now. Wanted to shoot with a S5 ii + Helios 44-2 & Jupiter 8, but the vinetting you mentioned has scared me off. It would be nice to see exactely how much vingetting there is open gate, uncropped. I could bump up to a jupiter 9 or 37A, but it cuts down on available options. Might have to wait for the next iteration and hope it truely works with a 50mm on FF. Loved the review though! Very helpful and offered a lot to think about.
Great video, and a very honest assessment of the adaptor. There have been very few RUclips reviews on it so far. Looking forward to more test footage shot with it on MFT, so we can compare how it renders backgrounds compared to full-frame - I suspect that full-frame gives us more of that anamorphic ‘goodness’, but I’d love to be proved wrong!
I've watched this through twice now, as well as several other videos on this adapter. I've never tried shooting anamorphic, so I really like the idea that this is a single adapter I could easily throw this onto any of the Lumix 1.8 line of lenses, without any step down rings (67mm fits perfectly). Adding a cage isn't too bad of a tradeoff, but agreed it's an extra bit gear to carry around. Love the footage you showed! The results are beautiful!
Great review, still thinking over its pros and cons before i pull the trigger, will look for more videos from you with this adapter, subbed!
Great in-depth review! Subscribed!
About a year ago I managed to get Sirui 50mm anamorphic, and I specifically got it for shooting cosplayers.
Most portrait lenses "pop out" the subject, anamorphic lenses do exact opposite. Its heavy, its manual so If I want to get razor-sharp results i have to be really patient and use every focus assist available. Usually the images are really good, or not at all, nothing in between.
Unfortunately Olympus does not have de-squeeze in camera - i can get an external monitor for that, but... when desqueezed properly, its like getting free resolution from M43 sensor.
Was so tempted to get this when I first saw the kickstarter campaign!
Great video as always Em 🙏🏼
Pav making his modeling debut! I love it and the lens looks great!
Thank you for your honest review! Brilliant! I was looking to buy this adapter on the Kickstarter campaign, but couldn’t find any reviews that had footage, outside of Moment’s own clips… So I bought the Sirui Saturn 35mm anamorphic lens… And like you said.. It sits in my bag! Too clinically sharp! My favorite lenses have character, like the Helios, Jupiter, Mir, But now I’m concerned about vignetting on my 58mm (full frame). Oh well! Beautiful footage! Thanks!
This was a great review, Thanks!!
Fantastic video as always! Welcome to adapter anamorphics, there’s a lot of minutiae to really getting the most out of them. Focal length coverage is often about more than just the focal length. It’s also about how far back the aperture is from the anamorphic, and that varies depending on the optical design, but pancakes are a pretty good bet, because theyre obviously quite short, so the aperture is guaranteed to be closer to the anamorphic (which is more favorable for vignette.)
On a whole, the coatings on this Moment look closer to vintage than most of the other modern options out there in Adapter land, and I don’t know how they’re getting that much waterfall bokeh out of a 1.33X, but it’s actually got some decent ovals going on somehow.
I was pleasantly surprised with the oval bokeh too! I was expecting the effect to be a lot more subtle than it is
From time to time I`ve been wanting to get an anamorphic lens or an adapter. But I need the 16:9 image in the end, so can`t really go above 1.33x. This adapter really seems to give enough character with that little squeeze, as opposed to everything else I`ve seen on YT.
Thank you for mentioning also the practical aspects of using and owning it, hadn`t though of some of them. A great review!
That’s pretty cool adding that big modern anamorphic adapter to that vintage Helios lens. Looks great. Hey congrats on your Japan trip! Was so cool to see they invited you. You deserved to be there more than anyone. My S5ii arrives tomorrow. Back to Lumix. Very excited. -TED
Hi Ted, hope you enjoy your s5ii it’s so good! And thanks so much for such a lovely comment - Tokyo was an amazing experience!
I had been looking for one really good anamorphic lens for GH6. The constraints being reasonable size, weight and price without sacrificing quality, no complicated adapter and a 1.8 squeeze factor which seems to be perfect for m4/3 open gate. So far the Vazen 28mm is the only candidate but price is on the high side. Considering the very high cost of other anamorphic lenses it seems to be acceptable. Laowa Nanomorph was almost a great pick for the price but falls short being x1.5, Great Joy Anamorphic is also a great contender but too big. Hoping they release smaller size wide angle and that could be it. Thanks for the great video.
I agree Alex, 1.8x on GH6 would be ideal and I'm in the same boat (testing a Cinelux system, similar issues to this adapter). Vazen 28mm seems like the only real option as the 40 & 60 are massive.
I LOVE your channel!!!
Great video 👌👌
Great video, I don't care about a 1.33 anamorphic its not really enough for me as well as the horizontal lens flares, however in saying that im glad this product exists. More options are better than less. keep up the good work.
“If your camera does anamorphic stabilisation, turn it on… if not… buy a Lumix” 🎥😜
Lovely shots em
Well. I didn’t want to say the quiet bit out loud… 😂
@@MicroFourNerds 😂
gorgeous footage! looks amazing with open gate 🤩 but yeah it's a lot heavier than i expected LOL literally felt a workout trying to get handheld footage
It’s so heavy 😂 I watched your test footage video the other day it looked lovely btw!
@@MicroFourNerds thank youu i appreciate the kind words! :)
Thank you for the review! I would probably skip this in favour of the Great Joy anamorphics (on my S1), since I generally feel more comfortable with less moving parts. This adapter is fantastic, but you need to remember too many things to make it work, I wouldn't carry those pitfalls or risks into a professional shoot. If it was close to 400 USD and a couple of hundred grams lighter, I would have got one just as a travel companion for personal use :)
Hi do you have an idea the lens barrel measures? i need to be a tilta Seamless Focus Gear Ring
Great review ! My favorite feature is the orientation button. It’s so fast to setup
Yeah that saves so much time! Thanks for stopping by! ☺️
@@MicroFourNerds of course! Been following your content for a while
@@CineDailies that’s so cool I love your channel 😁
I’m glade I found your channel
I wonder if there would be as much vignetting if on a super 35 camera with native mount, for example Blackmagic 6KPro EF with EF prime lens.
Fantastic review, thank you for posting this!
I've been waiting for the reviews to start coming in. As I'm trying to decide between the Moment 1.33x and the Aivascope 1.5x
I shoot mostly with a Sony A7SIII / FX3, and I've heard the new Aivascope can even handle 45mm lenses, if you can get the scope right up against the taking lens. Not a massive difference, but every mm counts!
Have you had any experience with the Aivascope?
I haven’t used the Aivascope unfortunately but that does sound like a good option with getting to 45mm before vignetting!
Have you considered or used the sirui range of anamorphc lenses?
I’ve had a tinker of a friend’s copy but never tried one myself. I’d like to very much but I’m less of a fan of the blue flares, I’m not sure if they do the golden versions
That Helios looks cool af with this adapter.
Seattle Seahawks cap was a nice touch ;)
Next year will be our year!!! (I say that every year 🥲)
For the price I'd go with one of Sirui's 1.6x + 1.25x adapters for a few hundred bucks more. Use the adapter on aspherical lenses for some creative anamorphic fun and then you still have a full 2x anamorphic setup when you want the full deal.
Those Sirui 1.6x look so nice. I’d love to try those with the 3:2 open gate on the S5ii.
@@MicroFourNerds I have an S1R that also does 3:2 but only in pixel to pixel so it's quite a tight crop. My goal by end of year is to have an S5II plus some anamorphic lens goodness as a nice little video rig.
Oh and meant to say that your footage is gorgeous as always!
Each to their own but I have owned several the Suiri lenses as well as Vazen’s 40 and 65 - and the Aiavascope 1.5x which in my experience has been the gold standard for anamorphic adapters.
The moment is actually much better than I anticipated and scratches 98% of the itch my Aivascope does for 1/3rd the cost.
I received the moment adapter 2 days ago and have been very pleasantly surprised. When paired with my vintage Leica Rs and Nikkor AIS lenses they produce a great image that does not detract from the original glass and stays pretty CA free at reasonable F/T stops. On modern glass I have been able to get down to T1.3 and still get critical focus with little to no CA or blooming highlights. The flares are complex yet not overpowering with nice secondaries and good texture unlike the atrocious ( IMO ) overwhelming tacky flares my Suiri’s produce, the flat, anamorfake looking uninspired flares that the Loawa’s generate or the too subtle and underwhelming flares generated by the great joys. Moment got this right.
At first I was a little underwhelmed when I heard the moment was only 1.33x which is a little light in squeeze but after shooting with it the last few days the elongation of the bokeh is a lot closer to what I normally find on 1.5x scopes.
The Moment clears my Leica R 28mm on my RED Komodo no problem and I get really nice results all the way up to 135mm. I’d say my favorites are the 35, 50 and 85mm focal lengths.
@@jordanwright5795 Nice Jordan! Perhaps do you plan to upload some of your results? Also, did you tested with filters in the moment adapter? Does it vignettes with filters?
Thank you for the review. Since you were only able to test the adapter with open gate I wanted to let you and your viewers know that the vignetting also occurs on 16:9 footage with a 50mm lense on a full frame camera. I have tried my Sony A7SIII and even though Moment claims 50mm on full frame works it’s just not true. I went ahead and tested the adapter on my Red Komodo S35 camera. Moment claims 35mm lenses would clear on S35, but again I have to report, they don’t. Again I see very visible vignetting. I hope there will be quite a few more reviews coming who will give people a heads up on these issues.
Yes it’s super sneaky isn’t it. I probably would have bought it knowing that I couldn’t use it at 50mm, but I would have liked to have known!
@@MicroFourNerds Exactly my thinking. I really hate if they do false advertising. It basically makes me lose trust for anything they do in the future.
Did you ever try the anamorphic adapter with your Meike Cine lenses by any chance?
Thx for those tests. I'm realizing something... When using the adapter in Photo mode, I assume that the image you get in the camera's LCD screen is compressed?
So it's not really practical to do a manual focus ?
Does it mean that we have to use a remote screen that stretches the image ?
If you have a camera like the gh6 you can set the screen “squeeze” to whatever the lens is, so it looks the same on every mode even photo 😊 if you camera doesn’t do this then you’d need an external monitor
I just wish there was a way to get autofocus. It wouldn't have to be continuous or anything but it would be nice to half press the shutter to have it focus and then do that again if focusing on something else.
get a rs3 pro and lidar to get autofocus
Have you tested with a stabilized lens to check how it works? I´m wondering if the stabilization is on the lens with would work properly or it would be the same as the ibis
Hmmm good question! I haven’t so far, all the lumix primes aren’t stabilised. I have a hunch it might need to be turned off as it might react differently than a standard lens
I think it's a great tool and way more versatile than a single focal length dedicated anamorphic lens.
I like the handsome guy in your video. Fit 😉
You were a wonderful model! Thanks so much for your help with this video ☺️📸❤️
your a fun person
Great review. Is on GH6?
All the aerial performer footage is gh6 😊
so on S35 when does it start Vignetting, not clear on your statement. 35mm and above issues? or is it 35mm and below is bad??
35mm and wider would be bad for vignetting
@@MicroFourNerds i c thanks!
Interesting piece of gear, that. I wonder how the footage compares to a normal anamorphic lens! By the way, are you speaking in dollars because it was in USD on Kickstaster? :P
That and about 70% of my audience is American haha but I tend to switch between the two throughout 😂🙈
@@MicroFourNerds Ah, bugger. No escape from Americanisation nowadays, haha. I understand though!
Did you try it with the Lumix 50mm? I would love to see a test at 17:9, 16:9, 3:2, etc if you have the time.
Come to think of it, I would love to see how it pairs with a variety of lenses if you're interested in making that video :)
The vignetting has nothing to do with the focal length of your lens, but with how close the adapter sits to the front element of your lens. It should be as close as possible. I use it on medium format, 6x9, no vignetting.
What brand is this ?
Moment. They usually do phone accessories and this is their first product for proper cameras 😊
Where's the Micro Four Thirds?
I just wish it was more squeezy! 1.5x 1.6x 1.8x I just cannot justify just a 1.33x on Lumix cameras especially where you arent limited to 16.9.
Me too! I bet they’ll bring out a squeezier now they’ve got this sorted
@@MicroFourNerds just buy two and screw them onto each other 😉 I’m sure that wont cause any issues!
I just got my hands on the SLR Magic 2x adapter but wow is this thing difficult to use.
Is that Southport?
It is! 😁
Are you a seahawks fan? I noticed in two videos you wore a piece of seahawks gear.
I am! For my sins haha I’ve been watching for about 8 years now
@@MicroFourNerds Very tough division your team is in but I don't mind the Seahawks...well I use to as a Packers fan (Failed Mary), but good luck next year.
@@sliceofmymind I believe Geno can be our man for a while, especially with Metcalf and Lockett 🙏 what we need is to really invest in the defence in the draft this year. And thanks to Russell Wilson we have a ton of picks and cap space. It could be a great year next year!!!
(But I say that every year 😂)
its sad that there are so many channels now who get it 80% right, but lack the 20% which make the difference between asking chatgpt or a true nerd.
What does an anamorphic adapter do?
It squeezes the footage by a percentage - in this case 1.33x and that creates a wider field of video, and the “letter box” black bar effect.
It also turns the bokeh (out of focus bits) more oval shaped rather than circular.
And it tends to be sharper in the middle and less sharp at the edges 😊
@@MicroFourNerds Thanks. I don't do video , so not relevant for me. Probably why I didn't know what it was.
I thought you were going to rip it apart, but ya didn't!!🤪
It is one massive brick of glass that’s a pain in the ass 🤣 but it’s VERY pretty!
Thank you for this. The simple fact it's not geared is incredibly stupid. I'd use it so much if it was bloody made with gears in mind. Silly fish
I agree on that, adding my own gear looks so janky and it’s one extra thing to buy (or forget to take with you!)
That's a super-specialized look. I think I'll pass.
A typical "moment" product. Unreliable, too expensive, and no backup (or answer on your mail) from a strange company.
lol dude, you went to comment the same phrase on every moment anamoprhic lens video is out there?
@@TheGuigotz normaly i dont answer the mental retardants but for you…..learn how to read!