DEC 10 LENS SHOOTOUT

[Charlie Hohenshilt]

the leicas will look good taped to my iPhone

In need of an up vote for this comment.

 

[Christopher Barrett]

Such a sleeper...

Definitely not the last time you'll see Leica-R's on my little Epic. Picked up the 35mm and 50mm Summilux this morning.

 

[Filip Vandoorne]

Just a totally incidental question. The Leica Rs front element lengthens as you rotate. So what mattebox solution works with that? Some sort of flexible ring? Cheers

we use the Shoot35.com swingaway mattebox for this. it is perfect for this use. i used for our Leica R set's a heliopan 77 mm step up ring - they have all the strange Leica filtersizes - in combination with a Shoot35 77mm attachment ring, it fits perfectly in the back of this leightweight mattebox. With a canon 7 D it vignettes only for 14mm lenses. i received this week also my Canon Epic mount, so i will test if the 16mm Leica R will vignette on 5K. more to follow.

 

[Rob Castiglione]

Many thanks Filip. I will check it out.

 

[Filip Vandoorne]

here some photo's of the setup with the 50mm summilux Leica-R on the Canon mount.

 

[Jeffrey T. Morgan]

It will be here, right?:

http://www.ryanewalters.com/Videos/Tests/tests.html

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

It will be here, right?:

http://www.ryanewalters.com/Videos/Tests/tests.html

The final write up will go live there next week- correct. Tim will be posting the links to the "blind" videos shortly.

 

[Tim Whitcomb]

THE BLIND TEST RESULTS ARE IN!!

PLEASE GO TO THE FIRST PAGE OF THIS THREAD TO SEE THE VIDEOS

WHICH ONES ARE YOUR FAVORITES? WE WILL LIST THe RESULTS IN 1 WEEK!

 

[Antoine Fabi]

Thanks Sir Tim!

Antoine

 

[Antoine Fabi]

Very well done Tim and all of you guys!

Skin tones, gray levels, highlights, colors, vertical and horizontal lines, breathing etc...

WOW!

We'll have fun.

Thanks very much to all of you

Antoine

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

If anyone else wants to scrub to a different set rather quickly on station 1 these are the benchmarks:

Set 1: 01:05
(around 3 min)
Set 2: 04:07
(around 4 min)
Set 3: 08:10
(around 3 min)
Set 4: 12:04
(around 4 min)
Set 5: 16:01
(around 3.5 min)
Set 6: 19:26
(around 3 min)
Set 7: 22:47
(around 5 min)

 

[Shawn Nelson]

BTW, should we assume Lens set #1 from station one is the same as lens set #1 from station two? Or do we not get to know?

The numbers keep iterating. So setup one has lens set labels 1-7, #2 has 8-14 and #3 has 15-21. After revealed you will learn which sets are the same. For instance, it might be that lens sets 2, 8 and 19 are the same (i dont know, I just made that up as an example). Make sense? The same 7 lens sets were tested in each of the 3 setups

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

Correct- the numbers do not relate to anything other then just to say, this is a set of lenses and give people a way of tracking their notes if they make them. I didn't want to confuse the issue by repeating numbers, nor give people an extra way to extrapolate out which set goes with the others in the test. It makes it a little more confusing to track, but hopefully it allows people to just watch the images and evaluate from there without being influenced by name brands.

 

[Greg M]

how where the files encoded?

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

Okay! Here we go:

Highlight the invisible text below if you'd like to see my guesses. Please don't if you want to not be influenced by my educated guesses.

Station One:
1) Cooke Panchro/i's
2) Luma Tech Illuminas
3) Leica R's
4) Red Pro Primes
5) Schneider Cine Xenons
6) Unique Optics Signature Series
7) CP.1's and CP.2's
Station Two: Who Knows! That is damn near impossible to tell.

Station Three: This was much harder.
15. Xenars
16.RPP's
17. CP's
18. Leica R's
19. Unique Optics
20. Illumina's
21. Cookies

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

how where the files encoded?

R3D's output to 1080p ProRes4x4 via RedRocket. Edit in Premiere, delivered to Vimeo via MP4 set at the highest settings Vimeo recommends. R3D's will be available for download for critical viewing in a week when the video has been replaced. Vimeo was chosen as the highest quality way to deliver video to as many people as possible, on as many platforms as possible, without killing our individual servers.

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

Where can we post our thoughts and guesses? Should I wait?

Can I put it in invisible ink like this --> Test. Test. Test. <- (highlight it)

Post them where ever, and when ever you want. Either this thread, or on the video itself. When I replace the videos, I'll let everyone know what the correct answers are as well.

 

[Shawn Nelson]

I'd love to see people post which sets they like and don't like from each setup before the names are revealed, so you know you aren't biased by brand or name.

 

[Sulekh Suman]

I can't find Vimeo links for the test!

 

[Bob Gundu]

http://vimeo.com/33707458

I can't find Vimeo links for the test!