Turn ANY LENS into a MOVIE Making lens (Blazar Anamorphic Adapter)
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I was excited, but the bad compression/distortion and edge falloff even at 50mm plus the price rapidly turned me off, couldn't even use my 35mm lenses. and no option for neutral/amber flares, just blue
I can actually buy an anamorphic adapter ... this is great .. Joy....
Holy craaaapppp I love the look of this adapter, the softening on the edges is kinda sick. Great footage as always man, you're out here making me miss France haha ;) Hope you've been well!!
Next time you are here I will give you a proper tour :)
I actually dont really like that "look" looks like we have to buy real anomorphic lenses
Note: Adapters like this are best paired with sharp modern glass + a glimmer glass filter. To my eye there too much quality loss adding a anamorphic block to vintage lenses.
"it depends on the vintage lens"
but yes, you're right--even my sharpest vintage glass is at its absolute limits at 24 MP, even when I'm stopped down to f4 or tighter they just don't have the same contrast as modern glass in any but the most favorable lighting conditions.
adding the unruliness of anamophic elements to the front--unless there's some really special coatings on the adapter we don't know about--seems like a recipe for subpar stills.
for folks shooting artistic videos (not the news or corporate talking heads, sometimes that doesn't matter to them...good for them. I only have money for all-rounder hardware without "blacked out" areas of shortcoming.
id agree with you normally but people generally use the same couple of families of vintage lenses for this reason. almost every vintage anamorphic adapter setup either uses helios glass, the canon fds, the contax zeiss's, or the old school rokinons. there will be nearly no sharpness loss at the center of the image with much of this glass. honestly the quality of your image is probably being more heavily impacted by the quality of your anamorphic blocks alignment rather than issues with these old lenses.
I want 1...
Only if I knew how to use, process it and then Santa was kind enough to me in the middle of Spring!
Your result is as Amazing as ever my friend and way to go, dear Mathieu.
Thank you so much for the great review. Were you using the Canon FD 85mm wide open? Or did you close down the iris? I am trying to figure out if the side blurriness exists in the 85mm focal length.
Nice one and great footage in your video!
thanks Asbjorn !
Single focus makes this amazing... for certain applications. But the small diameter and inability to work with wider-angle lenses means it's not for me... It's a fantastic dreamy, smeary look with some distortion... which sadly isn't what I do. I hope people have a ton of fun with this! (and that the manufacturer can improve/expand on this to bring it to wide-ish angle 82mm front diameter lenses!)
thats the spirit !
Hi Mathieu, Blazar indicates 40-100mm focal range for full-frame, have you tested what happens with shorter and longer ones like 35mm and 135mm? thanks!
Anyone know how much does the adapter slows down the taking lenses? Are there any estimates? Looks small. Aivascope 700 grams & 82mm, Blazar 399 grams & 62mm. Sure there's a difference low light SDOF? Gr8 with all new products nonetheless. Good job! 👍🏻
Despite the distortion in the corners depending on the movement 3:44 Overall it is a good adapter.
I noticed that too and doesn't look natural at the far edges
And despite the fact it does not work at all with "Any lens" like the intro says 😭 If you are interested in a way more detailed and honnest video about this adapter, Anamorphic on Budget did a complete review on this adapter. Very Interesting
Loved the look on the 85mm! Thanks for the video
I would be interested how it works with the Zeiss yashica/contax lenses if you have those on hand.
Almost consider ordering one.
Do you know any solution that do anamorphic on the really really wide end? I am talking like 120° and more horizontally.
I really enjoy the overocmpression distortion towards rhe edges. But even 40mm x1.5 is merely as wide as 30mm. And you can nowadays get 12mm lenses from laowa for full frame that are overcorrected to be rectilinear
I could definitely see this as a really good tool for movies or tv productions - it does have a very interesting character.
Very good tip, thank you very much.
Bravo! Beautiful footage.
45 has some spherical stretching but the rest look amazing. 85 1.8 looks the best. Beautiful.
Can i shotting with this adaptor for an main. Anamorphic format??? Like any camera main anamorphic format????
I'm going to a little get together in the park tonight of musicians in the community and there's two young flautists that really played well together last week to the point that I awoke this morning with a stills composition of them together burned into my mind...as the drowsiness wore off I realized I needed at least 1.25 anamorphic squeeze to really compose the image the way I saw it in my head
really serendipitous to find your video offering a practical solution as a I do a great deal of my stills work with vintage minolta lenses like you showcase the adapter being used with here.
Why can't you shot with a wider lens and then cut above and below? I am trying to understand
@@stefanotarroni8471 I typed a lot, but my browser lost it and I unfortunately have a lot of work. Ultimately its about perspective "distortion" in wide lenses. One girl's flute will be huge in the middle of the frame, the other girls flute will be "crowded" at the side of the frame.
The sound of the flute comes from the blow hole, not the far end of the tube, and there's also a cognitive dissonance effect as the viewer of the image will see something that's out of sync with how they know flutes work...like if we took a photo of a car with tiny wheels by cramming the wheels into the corner of the frame, we could end up with a composition that made us wonder 'how is the car managing to roll on such small wheels?'
there are non-anamorphic rectilinear wide lenses that try to 'straighten out' the edges of the image circle, I think there's a Zeiss one for X mount (my home) that would work, but I don't own it and it's not in a focal length I need in my practice.
Composition also plays a role, I was hoping to get the river with sunstars and specular highlights and shutter drag behind them, with the subject's motion frozen by the flash (they're otherwise dark under the gazebo). most all spherical wides have spherical vignetting corrected somehow (either in-camera, in-lens, etc) and this plays havok with the photometry needed to land the shot (the out of focus background will hoover up way more light than the girls at the edge of the frame).
There's even a chance I might end up contending with bokeh balls over the girls' faces on a spherical lens.
anamorphic composition resolves so many of these things. it flattens the focal plane so that I'm dealing less with a sphere and more with a 2-dimensional oval. Since I intend this as a documentary photo, I won't have control over blocking, minimal posing, and I want to minmize the number of flash discharges to avoid disturbing the scene.
That's super interesting! I will dig more about this!
I really thought about it, but the fact is that for 16:9 recordings (as most cameras do) a 1,33x anamorphic would render the traditional scope format of 2,35:1. So, only if you're shooting video in a more square format, then this adapter makes sense and it's a great idea. But else if you're shooting 16:9 video, then the result is going to be much wider, much beyond the original scope format.
For me the Sirui lenses seem like the best choice in this regard. If I want the extra Bokeh I can 3D-print a oval aperture plate and put it in the lens, so it has that higher-squeeze factor bokeh.
but you can work in a 2,35:1 timeline and cut the extreme ends of the image which are too compressed and blurred anyway, so you get the look and the aspect ratio
Anamorphic is not only about size and bokeh/strike
It's about character, softness, distorsion
a bit blurry at the edges, but looks nice.
I ordered a vintage macro lens today, mostly for digitizing films. Very excited.
Lenses are fun!
i want it because of the blurry character edges. but I'm with the guy with the Lumix unfourtunately.
Such beautiful romantic work ..wow..Chapeau !! C'est vraiment Merveilleux
I would love to see this with the Helios 44-2 and 40-2
i have the sirui adapter and the helios and its great at 1.25x, can ibly imagibe 1.5x is even better
@@SaxSpy I've been looking at the Sirui adapter for some time
Thanks for your testing.What do think compare to SR magic anamorphic adapter?
its 1.5x vs 1.33x so it's hard to compare
Does it look Squished on your Display Screen? If so does it make it harder to Focus?
Cool, letter box up down and on the sides
I have been trying different method of shooting cinema scope, like yourself,on the cheap for over a decade now. My last solution stop at the SLRmagic Rangefinder, which is a similar concept, however, I still have two problems with the setup thus lead me wonder how does the Blazzer address them 1) scope vertical alignment. With this kind of setup, every lens change require a perfect realignment of the adapter to the camera body, otherwise the squeeze will be off angle, how does the alignment mechanism works on this? 2) minimum focus distance was over 7 ft with the SLRmagic setup, I know anamorphic often struggles with close focus, but bringing it closer to 3 ft will be more reasonable without diopter.
there is a button to aligne the blazar without unscrewing the adapter, and the Blazar can focus up to 60 cm with is pretty close !
@@MathieuStern That is great to know! my SLRmagic is interfaced with a lens clamp, thus aligning takes a long time for every lens change, but at least the Blazar makes it a bit easier as long as you have enough step up ring for all the glass in your kit. And 60cm is dramatically better! Closer to what Sirui FF can archive, but possibly with more character with the choice of different taking lens
Have you tried it with one of the Nikon 50mm ai lenses?
How about the moment anamorphic adapter?
Nice! :)
Have a good week!
I'm very excited to see this on the end of some of those projector lenses, I think our hero is about to go full-Kubrick. 😂
Good catch. But I would never spend 833 euros on such a lens.
good choice, this would only be interesting if you are really motivated to do anamorphic footage
Can you cover a full frame sensor using a 45mm taking lens with this adapter?
Yeah Minolta 45mm 2
The output from the two Canon FD lenses, 50 and 85, is simply stunning. That itself makes this adapter really tempting. However, as a Lumix S user, the inability to adapt my 67 mm filter threaded S primes is a disappointment, and I somehow wouldn't want to jump into this adapter at 899 USD, with the limitation to use it only with _some_ vintage glass
You can with a step down filter ring 67mm to 52mm
@@user-of4xo4em9k Considering the size of the adapter, you would probably get an image with so much vignette you would be better off adding a string and oval cutout at the back of your lens, than trying to get something useful out of that combination. And of course, add the black bars in post
@@jayforcinema That's not how vignetting works in this case. The actual distance between the adapter and taking lens along with the focal length against the sensor size. You are totally fine to use step-down rings, and you quite literally have to in most all vintage lens scenarios as well.
Autofocus lenses will still works or its just manual mode
its only manual as your taking lens stay on infinity
Were these filmed in the full frame mode of the Sony camera?
YES :)
Once you did a video of a Mir 1B with reverse from element with blasting bokeh. So I really wonder how does it look with Blazer Nero!
Hope that you could make a video about it one day
Can this be used on modern lenses like canon ef or rf?
It can be used on any lens modern or vintage
What’s the song called @2:01 from music bed/epidemic sound? It’s something that I would want to listen to because it’s so relaxing 😌. It has familiar sounds to Hammock’s song “Mono No Aware”. Thx Edit…found it. Hammocks’s “Elsewhere “.
Does this work on apsc like my fuji x-t5
Sure, if it worked on my full frame it will work on APSC
That is pretty nifty.
what aspect ratio did you shoot at? 16:9? or 3:4?
16:9 because i am on A7III
@@MathieuStern thanks
So you cant use lenses under 40mm focal length? What happen then?
Can you stack two anamorphic adapter on top of each other?
Why?😂
u can't
of course , I will do it soon
@@MathieuStern oh and you talked about it being possible to fine adjust the angle of the anamorphic element. Does this “fine” adjustment include turning it 90 degrees for those vertical anamorphic thing which is going on on RUclips right now. It maybe even double stacking it for vertical Insta reels. (Or just mount it 90 degrees turned) and one more fun idea. Add one adapter horizontal and one vertical and see what will happen. Maybe weird wide angle adapter and super poor image quality. Who knows.
Corners are just too much for me, the size is perfect tho! Love the competition!
I'm surprised to see so many positive comments. I don't think this adapter is that good. The distortion and blurriness at the edges is very distracting especially if your subject is moving through that area. Also, the CA on high contrast areas isn't very appealing either.
Does it compress the image ?
Yes by a factor of 1.5x
@@phoenixfunny4517 much appreciated 👍
how you would mount it?
you can screw it to the lens directly
@@MathieuStern wow do you know what radius it has?
This is insane
Nice footage, excepting the occasions “chromatic aberrations” invade the frames.
Where are the flares?
Edge falloff doesn't look great with any of the lenses you tried. Sure it's wide and anamorphic but it isn't clean.
the falloff clears after 58mm and also i shot everything wide open so if you close downit will be sharper
@@MathieuStern good point. As you moved into the 85 it looked much better but I don't want to be forced to use mid-tele lenses to "have" an anamorphic look
Put it on sirui anamorphic 50mm lens :D
Test it with the Fujian CCTV lens 😆
I will !!
> Heavy breathing in JJ Abrams
Breathing is a pretty common characteristic of anamorphic lenses. Not really much of a way around it.
There are quite a lot of products like this. What makes this one special in your opinion? The price and squeeze factor?
there are exactly just one product like this, just one, and it's 2500$ instead of 999 ... so this is special.
the other adapter are 1.25x or 1.33X So very low compared to 1.5x
@@MathieuStern Ok I agree! :D
What about moment adapter? How much does it cost
@@dwanelkemprai4983 it’s a 1.33x at $1100
@@dwanelkemprai4983 That adapter is also heavier, so you will need support for the adapter to use it
Yeah, but it's crazy blurry at the corners, no?
I assume bcs of vintage lenses which has very low side sharpness. At some good lenses it looks okay.
after 50 mm the blurry corners go away
It could work🤔
Want
Cost
expensive
Annnd... it's almost $1k :P
Still giving Sperical lens feeling. Also adding too much chromatic aberration. I would rather use anamorphic lenses itself.
please do, but you will stay at f2.8 minimum , thats what i find great with this lens, you can go faster !
These companies really have serious problems with reasonable pricing.
Yes and No , this is a really expensive adapter, but at the same time, the only other options are 2500 and 3500 $ ... so 900 is still cheap if you compare it
Ca a l'air plus intéressant que le Siriu.
J'ai quasi acheté un anamorphique mais j'ai finalement acheté le tamron 28 75 g2 car il me semblait plus pratique, merci pour cette video car ca a validé mon choix!!
Nice. Physical size is wonderful and deserves credit.
Too bad it’s only 1.5x which is a bit weak sauce. We only roll 2x anamorphic and will maybe slum it down to 1.75x if absolutely necessary…
a 2X adapter would be way heavier , but for sure I would love to see that one day
3:43
That tiny rear filter thread won’t change anything lol
step up rings ?
@@MathieuStern My lenses are bigger than this adapter, otherwise id use it
Looks like an $800 piece of glass, much better options out there optically.
please give me other options for anamorphic 1.5X footage for 800$
@@MathieuStern If $800 and 1.5X is all you care about, you've found your adapter. If image quality is of any concern, there are better options albeit with lower squeeze (1.3 is common because it's a sweet spot for 16:9 sensors). If you're not going to go with real anamorphic lenses you can frankly get better IQ with fake anamorphic lenses which you can get a set for not a whole lot more than this adapter on ebay and have significantly better overall IQ. And yes I know it's not that same, but the entire reason to shoot anamorphic these days unless you're shooting with a 4:3 sensor is to get a look. There are different ways to achieve it.
@@michaellinton813 lol
La qualité optique à l'air vraiment mauvaise, mais on peu rien juger avec tes video a part ton travail, pas vraiment de l'optique.
Déso mais bon ca a l'air super flou. (Peut être que c'est habituel sur ces adaptateurs?)
L'intérêt de l'anamorphique c'est à la base de gagner en qualité. Et maintenant d'avoir un bokeh intéressant.
Il est vraiment mieux que les autres ou aussi bien pour moins cher?
Avec le 85mm ca a l'air mieux, mais surement parce que c'est une longue focale et que l'optique est exceptionnel.
Le rendu est vraiment mieux face a un crop d'optique? T'as pas fais de comparaison avec vs sans.
Can camera still do face/eye detection auto focus with an auto focus lens and this adapter? Thank you!
this costs 900 dls omg
great for shooting tiktoks
The swimming effect is bad though
yes, under 55mm you will get the swimming effect, but hey, you can crop your footage
explain like I'm five what this is
squishes the image
Mmmm. The IQ looks very suspect in the left and right quarters to me.
under 55mm you will get the swimming effect, but you can crop your footage or just avoid lenses under 55mm
Isn't it expensive? Aren't there cheaper anamorphic lenses with better results?
there are, but they always open at f2.8, here you can go as fast as you want : f1.2 , f1.4
Why the hell would anybody want annoying flares? This is what the Superhero movie phase has done.
If somebody wants just these fancy blue flares of anamorfic lenses, it's easy to make on post production! Don't need to rob a bank or sell your kidney ;)
I bet that the most of viewers doesn't know how to differentiate a video made with an anamorfic lens vs a usual good/great lens! It's better to invest your money to good lights, sliders, a good steadycam or a gimble (if you're not interested to learn steadycam techniques). These things are practically inreplaceable. Especially good lights and flashes!
Also I'm almost sure that the most of viewers (not videography professionals!) will not spot if you'll fake an anamorfic view on post production. If a camera has a lydar (i guess it's rare for real cameras) then it's possible to fake an anamorfic look to 99%. Means that you need to get depth maps from every frame. Actually i think it's possible now with AI algorithms. And i don't see a crime here ))
It's about time they made a 1.5x squeeze adapter. Tired of those whack ass 1.33 and even 1.25x ratios. So useless unless you literally only care about getting scope (which is trash, anyway) out of a 16:9 crop. 1.5x is the perfect thing to run with a 5:4, 4:3, and 3:2 recording aspect ratio, because once they're de-squeezed, you get roughly Flat(1.875:1), Univisium, and Super-Panavision(2.25:1), respectively. ALL of which are superior to Scope, IMO.
((I seriously hate scope. So much so that I call it cinemaNOPE because I'll never use it. Same with 24fps, I'll literally use 25 fps is low frame rate is required just to spite 24. Well, and because 25 genuinely looks better and is easier on the eyes (and edits better) than 24 without losing the feel and cadence of 24 that 30fps (my preferred rate) SOMEWHAT does.))
Unfortunately is x1.5 then is not a "real" anamorphic bokeh, is quite ugly.
what is real ?
It's neat but I don't understand the obsession with bokeh. It's rarely something actual filmmakers deliberately seek out as it and old school anamorphics shallow depth of field were considered technical failures on the lens' part that severely hampered composition, blocking and framing. And people hated it to the point where more than half of 'anamorphic' films are just full fat 35mm matted or cropped to 2.35. Some film sensors like the arri Alexa 65 are just that aspect ratio naturally and film stock like techniscope which is what a good deal of european 2.35 films are shot on is actually a product of an attempt to get more minutes of film per foot by cutting a s35 film frame in half and running it at a higher speed, resulting in a dof closer to super 16
Anamorphic scope is absolutely a sought after and beloved tool in cinema and by filmmakers. No one makes films like they did before scope was introduced and there's a reason for that.
Today filmmakers do care and have been for over 5 decades.
Anamorphic is how we achieve wide screen without cropping and it renders a beautiful and iconic look
cool, but we live in the age of vertical content, so the image from anamorphic lenses has an extremely narrow use now :(
Turn the anamorphic sideways, then.
@@MackerelSkyLtd very funny! you would be good on the set always thinking of new ways to capture footage.Creative thinking !
@@markrobinson8254 According to Brad Bird, at an early development stage on Tomorrowland they were going to have different aspect ratios at different points in the movie, so they experimented with Anamorphic lenses rotated 90 degrees to get a kind of horizontally compressed 4:3. He said it was a cool look with vertical streaks and horizontal oval bokeh, but the story ended up not motivating the multiple aspect ratios.
This is cool. Now all i need is spare $1,000 🥲