Thanks for sharing your lens tests. It's great seeing someone delve into the quality of various lenses side by side. It's a great way of choosing a lens, etc.
Having shot on the Orion’s a TON, and shot on the Pavo’s a little, I think the Pavo’s are my favorite 2X anamorphic of the two IF you plan on shooting wide open. I really like their distortion and coma wide open. But if I plan on stopping down, which I mostly do, Orion’s all day. I think they just keep more of the character and funk further down in the T stops.
Yeah the Orions look like classic anamorphics throughout the whole t stop range! For the price.. I just prefer the Blazar Cato's. On S35 they look almost just as good in my opinion to the Pavos
@ yeah, have yet to shoot the Cato’s they look great from what I’ve seen too. Obviously price to performance is not even close lol. Cato’s win 10/10 times. I do have that 5 lens set of the Remus coming next week 😎 Excited to put them through the paces! Got a Jack Daniels commercial coming that I’m damn tempted to put them to work on 😂
@ it might very well be CA, but what looks like film halation on the ridge line in the “Focal Length Comparison” chapter, looks absolutely stunning to me.
@ Cato has the best value for money and are full frame. It’s big flaw is the 135mm being T4 ouch! for Video.! Pavo comes next and Apollo has the Panavision vibe! But more $$
I think I like more the Mercuries and then the Catos/Remus. It can be seen that a lot of the flare look of those Pavos are due to coating technologies applied different in the elements inside and the external surfaces of front and rear element, simillar to a the ISCO. So when the external front element coating is removed, you would see the real character of those cilindrical streaks, and more. The more exaggerated example of this is how Zeiss manage to make the master anamorphics with almost none flares, with their coating technologies. That would leave the Siruis as good candidate for coating removal. Obviously these changes result in a more vintage anamorphic that must be stopped down and be aware of strong front light sources. Bottom line: The quantity of spherical and cylindrical elements, aperture type and position, coatings in the inside elements and external front and rear elements can be “seen” in the flares. That’s why Blazar and Atlas are concentrated into the optical schematics of anamorphic rather than too much coatings, and other brands prefer to make strong coating corrections rather than the art of anamorphic character. Is true that the Apollos are amazing though, and you can see how the price reflect that. But are difficult to get too (like a year to ship plus other considerations).Maybe one day the Pavos will have an uncoated exchangeable front element, that will lead to more element misalignment, but the more Frankenstein the better choices.
Cam be the type of guy to have anamorphic glasses, I heard he sees in 1.6x desqueeze
I def see in 2X iMAX
😂😂😂😂
Those DZO's feel like a great 2-in-1. Wide open they got tons of character and after T4 you keep the soul but just dials it back a bit.
Thanks for sharing your lens tests. It's great seeing someone delve into the quality of various lenses side by side. It's a great way of choosing a lens, etc.
Thanks for sharing your tests
Sticking with the catos , looks like DZO is in a panic since the catos came out 😂
I people really don’t understand how good the Cato’s are, especially for their price point.
@@cammackey they are better then kowa anamorphics and they dont cost 38k !! the dzo 32mm looks dope tho
Having shot on the Orion’s a TON, and shot on the Pavo’s a little, I think the Pavo’s are my favorite 2X anamorphic of the two IF you plan on shooting wide open. I really like their distortion and coma wide open.
But if I plan on stopping down, which I mostly do, Orion’s all day. I think they just keep more of the character and funk further down in the T stops.
Yeah the Orions look like classic anamorphics throughout the whole t stop range! For the price.. I just prefer the Blazar Cato's. On S35 they look almost just as good in my opinion to the Pavos
@ yeah, have yet to shoot the Cato’s they look great from what I’ve seen too. Obviously price to performance is not even close lol. Cato’s win 10/10 times.
I do have that 5 lens set of the Remus coming next week 😎 Excited to put them through the paces! Got a Jack Daniels commercial coming that I’m damn tempted to put them to work on 😂
Jesus! The halation on these lenses is, simply put, gorgeous!!
You mean chromatic aberrations?
@ it might very well be CA, but what looks like film halation on the ridge line in the “Focal Length Comparison” chapter, looks absolutely stunning to me.
Thanks for sharing! They look cool.
You would love the Apollo Xelmus!!
More expensive than Pavos, but not nearly as traditional anamorphics
The Blazar Cato take the cake rn for me! Haven't tried those Apollos yet tho!!
@ Cato has the best value for money and are full frame. It’s big flaw is the 135mm being T4 ouch! for Video.!
Pavo comes next and Apollo has the Panavision vibe! But more $$
I wish I had some intelligent comment to add here - but Jumpin’ Cats! Love how these lenses dirty up when shooting into a light source!
I think I like more the Mercuries and then the Catos/Remus. It can be seen that a lot of the flare look of those Pavos are due to coating technologies applied different in the elements inside and the external surfaces of front and rear element, simillar to a the ISCO. So when the external front element coating is removed, you would see the real character of those cilindrical streaks, and more. The more exaggerated example of this is how Zeiss manage to make the master anamorphics with almost none flares, with their coating technologies. That would leave the Siruis as good candidate for coating removal. Obviously these changes result in a more vintage anamorphic that must be stopped down and be aware of strong front light sources. Bottom line: The quantity of spherical and cylindrical elements, aperture type and position, coatings in the inside elements and external front and rear elements can be “seen” in the flares. That’s why Blazar and Atlas are concentrated into the optical schematics of anamorphic rather than too much coatings, and other brands prefer to make strong coating corrections rather than the art of anamorphic character. Is true that the Apollos are amazing though, and you can see how the price reflect that. But are difficult to get too (like a year to ship plus other considerations).Maybe one day the Pavos will have an uncoated exchangeable front element, that will lead to more element misalignment, but the more Frankenstein the better choices.
Haha now i want a pavo with a cracked element 😂😂
T4 is nice
Like 28&40
First🥰