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[REVIEW] P+S 1.5x anamorphic zoom 35-70mm

Christoph Tilley

Christoph Tilley

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Hey guys,

I reviewed the rather new P+S Technik 1.5x anamorphic zoom 35-70mm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yD0JZ_u1ME

I really liked the vintage look with modern glass/sharp images. Especially when the 70-200mm comes out, this could be a fairly versatile lens for different scenarios.
What do you think?

Best,
Chris
 
I have a feeling people might not be too excited about this, but it seems like the base lens for the P and S 35-70mm T3.2 could be a Nikon 35-70. To me the biggest giveaway is that the P and S 35-70mm T3.2 anamorphic zoom has a 7-blade iris. The Leica 35-70mm zooms have a 6-blade iris. Both the Nikon 35-70mm f2.8 and 35-70mm 3.5 have a 7-blade iris. The Nikons are quality little zooms and they made hundreds of thousands of these, so it would be easy for P and S to get plenty of cheap donor lenses that are in good condition. Of course, I am just guessing. The iris is usually one of the easiest tells with this stuff. I don't mind the idea that they might have used a Nikon zoom, but maybe if they make a version II of this lens they can swap the iris for something with more blades so that your bokeh stays oval when stopped down. It's still a really pretty lens though.
 
Mark K. said:
Wouldn't the base lens be a 17-35mm zoom?

All of the 2x anamorphic zoom conversions I can think of, arrive at a 2x multiplication of the focal length of the base zoom lens that they use.
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That is my understanding..(unless it is a rear deal which it is not..)
 
Mark K. said:
Wouldn't the base lens be a 17-35mm zoom?

All of the 2x anamorphic zoom conversions I can think of, arrive at a 2x multiplication of the focal length of the base zoom lens that they use.
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1.5x squeeze. But I don't know of any base lenses that fall in the 24-50mm range... strange.
 
Michael Lindsay said:
That is my understanding..(unless it is a rear deal which it is not..)
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AFAIK it is the other way around. With front-anamorphics the focal lenght of the base lens stays the same, but the squeeze provides a wider field of view than a spherical lens of the same focal lenght. Basically a wide-angle adapter that only affects horizontal direction.

Rear-Adapters, in contrast, are basically Teleconverters that affect only one direction, and as with teleconverters the FOV horizontal FOV doesn't get wider - because the anamorphic element at the back can't magically make the field of view wider than what "the front of the lens" captured, but the vertical field of view becomes tighter.

The Back-Anamorphic sort of "crops and vertically stretches" the spherical image optically. That's also why they don't exhibit that "anamorphic look".

Basically: a front-adapted 50mm and a rear-adapted 25mm give you the same field of view, but to avoid confusion the rear-adapted lenses (traditionally only zooms) are designated with their effective FOV in the anamorphic format. So no matter what type of lens, when you call for a 50, it will act the way you would expect an anamorphic 50 to act.

At least that's true for all the rear-converted Panavision Zooms (Focal lenghts always double in the anamorphic versions of the lenses) or the older Cookes (the 25-250 always being designated a 50-500 in anamorphic).

The P+S Lens seems to be front-anamorphic so the base lens should be a 35-70mm.

The newer Panavison and Hawk Front Anamorphic Zooms are designed from the ground up and have no "base lens" in that sense...

Just my 2cts 
M
 
In Los Angeles, Hot Rod Cameras is the new headquarters for P+S Technik products including the new CS (CinemaScope) 35-70mm and the forthcoming 70-200mm CS. You can see a demo 35-70mm at Cine Gear and after the show the lens will be back in our Burbank shop where it is available for demo. Currently, this is the only 35-70mm CS in the country. In the tests/demos we've done lately (starting at the Koerner Lens Summit) the lens has been very well received so far.

1.5x squeeze ratio is very close to an ideal aspect ratio for "Open Gate" so you end up with close to the 2.39:1 aspect ratio with minimal cropping. It's a beautiful anamorphic lens and extremely well priced considering the quality. If you're not in the area, The "CS" was included in the recent ShareGrid Anamorphic test and it performed extremely well.

I.
 
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