GL Optics Test: Re-housed Contax Set

[Jay Kim]

I will try my best
Please wait me 2-3 months
Because there are many Lens need to re-designed and rehoused now.
Here is 300mm F2.8 stop Prime Lens, just finished yesterday

Look Nice! And PL mount... which lens is it?

 

[G.L Nan]

Look Nice! And PL mount... which lens is it?

Base Lens is Canon 300mm F2.8

 

[Patrick O'Sullivan]

Who makes that wooden handgrip?

As Bob said it is Sawmill Cinema by @MNS1974 or Mike in the real world.

Just got it a few days ago. Nice little hand grip. The rod to rosette clamp is the "Shooting Machine"rose clamp.[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]

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[Jesper Sichlau]

Does the 'rehousing' of the lens make the focus-turn longer? (don't know the right name for that thing - the distance from nearest end of the focus point to the farest)

 

[Adam Beck]

Thanks for sharing Patrick, images are beautiful.

 

[G.L Nan]

Does the 'rehousing' of the lens make the focus-turn longer? (don't know the right name for that thing - the distance from nearest end of the focus point to the farest)

You mean the roration? Yes, focus and aperture roration is changed, more longer than original condition.

 

[Nick Morrison]

Nan, if we want, can you change the number of aperture blades in the lens?

Also, are there discounts if our Contax lens is already Leitaxed?

 

[Nick Morrison]

Hey mates, This may be an unintelligent question but I got to ask it:

What do those images that Patrick posted have to do with the lenses? I understand that he shot the images with the lenses and that the cinematography is beautiful there. However, the difference between just any random lens and the Contax lenses he used is - slight color shift, sharpness, etc.

My understanding is that with the reduced resolution of those stills and with a slight amount of color correction, you could get that look with any lens.

It's mostly the cinematography, am I right?

The answer in my opinion, is no. Some of the flaring, bokeh, and low-con highlights seen in Patrick's imagery are distinctly Contax. Of course it's Patrick's artistry that's weilding these characteristics, but the artist is using a TOOL, and to suggest that all TOOLS are alike, I think is taking a leap of faith.

Different lenses do different things. Primes in particular specialize in their imagery, where as Zooms do everything well...but have less quirks.

If you want the magic, you need to find the quirks.

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

These look badass!

 

[Ben Scott]

Just to add to that, surely part of the 'cinematography' is knowing which tool to use to get the desired effect.

 

[Jean Bernard]

Looks GREAT!!! Can you post a few clips?

 

[George Su]

Patrick,
Did you try Duclos cine-mods before going with Nan?

What were the other cinemods you tried?

 

[Bob Gundu]

Duclos is great but he doesn't do many rehousing.

Patrick,
Did you try Duclos cine-mods before going with Nan?

What were the other cinemods you tried?

 

[Stefano Ceccon]

Not only rehousing
Nan adds more rotation of the focus and iris.

 

[Stefano Ceccon]

My last work
50mm and 135mm GL
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.200701823411562.1073741827.127082294106849&type=3

 

[Fred Salaff]

We well all of Nan's products.

 

[Sharif El Neklawy]

Patrick,

thanks so much for sharing. those stills at the beginning of the thread are so beautiful and it looks like GL did a really nice job--gets me interested in using them someday in the future

 

[Thomas Pierrepont]

Agreed with Sharif. I almost melted when I saw those first pictures. Beautiful.

 

[Glen Powell]

Nan emailed overnight with this announcement:

Hello here,
G.L Optics offer the new rehoused Standard Speed Prime Lenses(PL version):
25mm F2.8
28mm F2.8
35mm F2.8
50mm F1.4
85mm F2.8
The detail information of this set of rehoused Lenses:
1)All Lenses have the same lenght;
2)95mm diameter of front Lens ring;
3)6063 alumium rehoused Lens body;
4)re-designed Lens focus/aperture system;
5)stainless steel PL mount;
6)0.8 module Gears;
7)Zeiss Contax Prime Lenses base;
8)Lenses will come with flight case;
9)Price:10,000 USD(Don't including the cost delivery)


Please contact me free if you need this set Lenses.
Best regards,
Nan

Pictures of the set look great - I have his 100mm macro and now use it on just about every shoot. Really happy with it. I have a set of RPP's already (18mm all the way through to the 300mm, + two of the zooms) so I don't really need another set of lenses… but these look like a great set of lightweight primes at a decent cost / value proposition. I also light everything so 2.8 is fine.

 

[David W. Jones]

Nan emailed overnight with this announcement:

Hello here,
G.L Optics offer the new rehoused Standard Speed Prime Lenses(PL version):
25mm F2.8
28mm F2.8
35mm F2.8
50mm F1.4
85mm F2.8
The detail information of this set of rehoused Lenses:
1)All Lenses have the same lenght;
2)95mm diameter of front Lens ring;
3)6063 alumium rehoused Lens body;
4)re-designed Lens focus/aperture system;
5)stainless steel PL mount;
6)0.8 module Gears;
7)Zeiss Contax Prime Lenses base;
8)Lenses will come with flight case;
9)Price:10,000 USD(Don't including the cost delivery)


Please contact me free if you need this set Lenses.
Best regards,
Nan

Pictures of the set look great - I have his 100mm macro and now use it on just about every shoot. Really happy with it. I have a set of RPP's already (18mm all the way through to the 300mm, + two of the zooms) so I don't really need another set of lenses… but these look like a great set of lightweight primes at a decent cost / value proposition. I also light everything so 2.8 is fine.

Got the same email which threw me for a loop, as I had contacted Nan about rehousing my entire Contax lens set to PL, and his reply was he could do it in EF but would no longer do PL mounts on Contax lenses???