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Red One with 8mm Lens output to 3 screens

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I want to rent a Red One and shoot with the 8mm Nikon lens,

Then take the footage and de-fish it and split it to "3" 1280 projectors to 12 foot screens for an event.

Does anyone have any footage or a still with this lens?
Does anyone have footage that they have fixed the lens distortion in AE?

I am willing to pay for some help here before I spend money on the rental.

Please email me!

thanks
Chris Wright
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Thanks looks like a great lens, but I was hoping to get to as close to 180° as possible.

Chris
 
First things first, this is a real names forum, sorry, moderator hat on. Put in your name change request in the Real Names forum in the Recon section if you have not done so. But thanks for letting us know who you are, Chris. :)

You will get more usable resolution out of a lens like the Arri 8R, but it still has some distortion. The Nikkor 8mm fisheye does not quite cover 4K 16:9 on the RED One. It vignettes in the corners, which won't be an issue if you're processing to remove the fisheye distortion anyway. But you will lose a lot of that FOV by removing the distortion, once again putting you back to the 8R or similar as probably a better choice.

The Peleng 8mm fisheye is inexpensive to buy (around $400 new from eBay sellers) and actually has a slightly greater FOV, but the optics are inconsistent between each lens -- probably depending on the amount of Vodka consumed each day by the factory workers. And even the good ones, are not as sharp or capable of as much resolving power as the Nikkor.

If you want a full 180 degrees, take a look at the Schneider/Century 6mm fisheye. I believe Evin Grant owns one, or at least he has worked with it a bunch and has shot dome projection projects with it.

If you're talking about arranging the three screens horizontally, that would be about 5.33:1, assuming 16:9 screens/projection. I'm thinking you would do best by using a lens like the 8R and shooting 4.5K wide on the RED. There won't be as much distortion to compensate for in post and will give you a very wide FOV.

You could also shoot with a 2X anamorphic lens at 4.5K on the RED. Then de-squeeze in post, retaining the full de-squeezed width. That would come really close to the full three screens wide as well and you would really only need to do a bit of a crop/zoom in post.

A more expensive, but potentially elegant solution would be to shoot three sync'd cameras. But that would be a large camera rig and may not fit with what you need to shoot or your budget.
 
You could also try the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye. It covers the 4.5 k frame.
You need a Nikon mount with iris control such as optitek.org/nikon-prolock.php
There are some photo software plugins that can defish this lens.
I own both the 8mm and 10.5mm Nikon.
I would not recommend the Peling, it has terrible flare.
Sergei Franklin
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Yes, the flaring on the Peleng can also be quite bad as Sergei points out.

Another good 8mm rectilinear lens, for a budget option, is actually the Sigma 8-16mm zoom. It's available in Nikon F mount, which makes it easy to put on a RED One.

I still think that if you're going to "de-fish" your footage and rectilinearize the image, you will actually get a better picture with a larger FOV / AOV if you shoot with an 8mm rectilinear to begin with.
 
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I think you might be right,
I have been looking at it all day.

thanks for everyone help.
Chris Wright
 
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