Wow, Winston, you actually built one. Do you have any footage or stills of the images it produces?


-j

Nice looking device, nice price, any footage? Low light performance will be THE challenge with medium format.

Wow, Winston, you actually built one. Do you have any footage or stills of the images it produces?


-j


Yes I have them ready and I can send you a DVD. I have sent out a lot of them but I have been disappointed at the lack of feedback, the ones that I have gotten have been very good.

Winston

Any footage? How do we get this DVD? I am also curious about the light loss

Winston are you charging people for your dvd? It's been beaten to death but for some reason you won't post any footage from your device. Take the easy road and give some people a little footage.

He is not here to aid the community, just to pimp his device... 90%+ of his posts are just linking to his site...



ash =o)

Too true. He did it in this thread too (http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=52175). He's done it on other forums as well (most notably dvxuser.com). I don't understand why he doesn't just post footage and let people decide for themselves.

I don't think anybody would pay a single cent until they've seen some footage.

Thanks for the responses. I agree that the medium format lens idea isn't very cost-effective but it might not be a total dead-end - I think I didn't explain myself very well in that first post, so here's another go.

Click for a diagram:
Medium Format Idea (http://www.globo-chem.net/~jay/MedFormatIdea.gif)


And in the meantime I've had another thought along the lines of my two-way mirror/3M tape idea.

Another handy diagram:
Idea 3 (http://www.globo-chem.net/~jay/Idea3.gif)


More for the pot.


-j


Finally got some framegrabs from my 70mm adapter on to the website, please check it out..

www.freewebs.com/wvargas

Thanks

Winston,

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, because I'm inclined to believe that maybe as far as web stuff goes you might not be too savvy. While the frame grabs are a step in the right direction they appear to be very grainy and interlaced. They are not sharp at all and give us no indication of the adapters strengths. I tried to save a picture so that I could deinterlace it in photoshop to get a better idea as to what I was looking at. Unfortunately your website wouldn't allow me to do so.

Right now as it stands the only thing those pictures tell us is that you can achieve a shallow DOF with the adapter, but every adapter can do that, that's the point after all. So we aren't really seeing what the adapters strengths and weaknesses are. As it stands those stills are not going to help people determine the quality of your adapter.

I hate to point the finger without offering a solution. So, If you were so inclined, you could send me a CD/DVD with a raw DV stream I would be more than happy to extract stills and encode video for decent web presentation, and then send them back to you. I am very curious about your adapter myself.