Epic & old glass

[Gunleik Groven]

So. I have had extreme fun this summer with putting on some really cheap and shitty old glass on my Epic and shoot some holidaystills.

The "set" is an old Angi 25-100 T4 zoom. Looks like vaseline
An 80 & a 130 60's DDR Zeizz with the PL mount glued onto the bayonet.

And a borrowed B-speed 18mm

Would be fun to discuss the use of old glass on the Epic and Scarlets.... And stills workflows.

So I'll open up with some shots from yesterday...

 

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[Elsie N]

Gunleik, Maybe I've got Sgt Shultz syndrome, but I see nuth-inggggg.

EDIT: Never mind... now I see it.

 

[BRANDON JAMESON]

You're right, it looks shitty.

 

[Justin McAleece]

Some fun looks! I want to shoot on some really haloey soft glass for certain projects just to see what it's all about. Does anyone know of some SLR glass that specifically is fun for this type of thing. Something I could adapt to EF mount?

 

[Gunleik Groven]

I must say that after shooting masters and rpp's, I really love the look of these...

But that's not really the point...

Wonder if others are playing around with the same combo?

Just would like to see more images than my own and know which glass it is shot on.

Whether one likes it or not... Not so important.

Different looks

Important...

 

[N_Villers]

Life is not so bad.

 

[Kirk.Attard]

Love the look and feel - Just one question - The grain is from glass or from high iso? Other than that - very ineresting.

 

[Tehben Dean]

These were shot with Old Carl Zeiss Arriflex lenses with PL mount adapter on the EPIC. Mostly with a 32mm f/2.2.
I love the look of old glass on the EPIC. It adds more organic feel to the images.

These were all exported as Tiffs and edited in Aperture.


Renee by tehbendean, on Flickr


Rylee by tehbendean, on Flickr


Rylee by tehbendean, on Flickr


Kerri by tehbendean, on Flickr


Maddie by tehbendean, on Flickr

 

[Gunleik Groven]

The grain comes from everything...

The angie is very grainy, the b-speed is quite smooth

But it is all natural light, which basically means bonfire and candles in the night images...
Mostly it is 2500 iso @rlf which is the startingpoint for the night images.

Additionally I have added grain to the. B&W's in lightroom...

Mostly they have gone tiff rlf to lightroom, though some have been finnished in rcx

 

[Dave Blackham]

This is a great thread.

We have all of our Epics set up with A mount specifically so we can access all manner of Glass. Our hope is to promote Photo-Cinematography which actually is noting more than Wildlife Cinematographers have been doing for years with Stills lenses on Motion picture cameras. Our current preference is Leica lenses, Mostly Leica R but we are hunting for older Leica glass with out the high contrast coatings, our hope is to learn from James Ravilious work who we are told preferred uncoated or single coated lenses rather than the new multicoated lenses when he was working. We have some older Canon FD glass, Nikon Glass and hopping to get the loan of a set of Super Baltars shortly.

I agree, older lenses and Epic do seem to compliment each other very well.

 

[BRANDON JAMESON]

Tehben, wonderful!!!!

 

[Brandon J.F.]

I really love the combination of old glass and RED cameras. So much texture and life is added to the image in my opinion.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Tehben

Lovely stuff

And old glass gives looks new + post don't give.

Methinks...

 

[Tehben Dean]

After shooting stills with EPIC and iPhone so much recently I hardly
pick up my canon any more. I've fallen in live with the much more organic look you get with both of these cameras vs the super sharp clean clinical images from the 5D and canon glass.
I really like the grain structure of the epic. Not sure how to explain it but even though there isn't as much latitude for adjustment as with Canon RAW the image seems thicker or something. You have to approach post differently but I sure live the results

 

[Nathan Apffel]

I have only worked with the Epic and Scarlet 4 times now, but I've been putting old Nikon Primes (and a cheap old Nikon 100-300 5.6) from the 70's on - and I love the imagery. The old lenses seem to 'soften' the image a bit -which I personally like in most situations. These are still pulls from a shoot in San Diego and the surfer is from Indonesia shooting through HEAVY mist from the water spray.

All these are pulled from a lower resolution quicktime file - much of the image degradation is from the compression - not the original image.