Jay Sanchez
April 17th, 2006, 12:10 PM
I'm a new owner of a standard non-flip Letus and must admit I'm very impressed. I got a chance to use it this weekend under a wide variety of outdoor conditions.
Here's a DV still using the mid-range of a cheap Vivitar zoom on a DVX100a in letterbox mode, 24pA.
conditions: heavy overcast, 35mm zoom lense wide @ 4.5 (yikes !)
No CC
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/janNoCC.mov
With CC
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/janLS.mov
This a short clip but large clip showing the DOF of a 35mm lense that is not wide open but still shows a range of the DOF. Not everything is video tack sharp. But the plane of focus is apparent and not too shallow.
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/panleftkidsQTfromAvid.mov
It is a huge 69mb file @ native DV compression using a Tokina 28-200.
Conditions: sunny but under a pavillion, mid range on the zoom @ an f8-f11 split. In this situation, the adapter definitely flattens out the DVX's already factory flat settings.
I have still yet to experiment with boosting sharpening or saturation on the DVX while using the Letus.
I just got the Tokina from adorama for less than $50 to replace the slower and more telephoto vivitar, and use my mint Nikon 50mm 1.4 for portraits and interviews. I like the wideness of the the 28mm Tokina but the MOD is 10 feet ! But, even the lesser glass still looks decent/good especially when shooting in the mids of their apertures.
If anyone's interested, I can post clips/stills of the letus with the better Nikon glass under a tungsten lit interview setting and different outdoor conditions with the zoom. Any recommendations for compression for proof/viewing purposes? The clip is from an export from Avid using the ntscDV codec. The stills are apparently being recompressed upon export through AE.
Here's a DV still using the mid-range of a cheap Vivitar zoom on a DVX100a in letterbox mode, 24pA.
conditions: heavy overcast, 35mm zoom lense wide @ 4.5 (yikes !)
No CC
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/janNoCC.mov
With CC
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/janLS.mov
This a short clip but large clip showing the DOF of a 35mm lense that is not wide open but still shows a range of the DOF. Not everything is video tack sharp. But the plane of focus is apparent and not too shallow.
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/panleftkidsQTfromAvid.mov
It is a huge 69mb file @ native DV compression using a Tokina 28-200.
Conditions: sunny but under a pavillion, mid range on the zoom @ an f8-f11 split. In this situation, the adapter definitely flattens out the DVX's already factory flat settings.
I have still yet to experiment with boosting sharpening or saturation on the DVX while using the Letus.
I just got the Tokina from adorama for less than $50 to replace the slower and more telephoto vivitar, and use my mint Nikon 50mm 1.4 for portraits and interviews. I like the wideness of the the 28mm Tokina but the MOD is 10 feet ! But, even the lesser glass still looks decent/good especially when shooting in the mids of their apertures.
If anyone's interested, I can post clips/stills of the letus with the better Nikon glass under a tungsten lit interview setting and different outdoor conditions with the zoom. Any recommendations for compression for proof/viewing purposes? The clip is from an export from Avid using the ntscDV codec. The stills are apparently being recompressed upon export through AE.