Vintage Wins!

[Chris McKechnie]

With all the latest and greatest offerings from RED - high resolution sensors are becoming the standard on sets. Combine these powerful sensors with Vintage Glass and you have an amazing combination that will produce stellar imagery.

Here are some compressed frame grabs for you from a period documentary film I'm DPing - straight off an Epic MX sensor. Shot with vintage Mamiya Medium Format Glass - which an entire set can be had for less than $3k. Mostly shot wide open or 2.8/4 split. Enjoy!

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

Nice Chris. Vintage Mamiya medium format. I wonder if that's part of why the focus falloff seems so well controlled? Would love to try them out on an 8K Dragon sensor...

Cheers - #19

 

[Samir Patel]

Beautiful Chris. But let's not forget the mind and eyes behind the camera!

 

[Milano Questa]

Flawless victory!

Can't wait for 8k to be released to the public.

 

[Nathan Grubbs]

looks fantastic! Would love to hear a bit more about these vintage lenses.

 

[David Battistella]

Great stuff.

love the look you get with this kind of glass and even in modern scenes old glass can have a wonderful look.

David

 

[Nick Morrison]

Looks AWESOME Chris!!!

 

[James Bendkowski]

Just saw these on instagram! They look gorgeous! I may have to hunt down a set of these lenses

 

[Robbie McCord]

Very cool Chris! I recently joined the Red family and shoot with Mamiya lenses. I'm old school in the digital world too though, as I shoot them on the R1MX.

 

[Brian B]

Looks Gorgeous Chris!

 

[BRANDON JAMESON]

BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO!!!!

 

[Chris McKechnie]

Nice Chris. Vintage Mamiya medium format. I wonder if that's part of why the focus falloff seems so well controlled? Would love to try them out on an 8K Dragon sensor...

Cheers - #19

Yea...love these Mamiya's and the focus fall off. I'd love to test them out on an 8k sensor too! hehe

Beautiful Chris. But let's not forget the mind and eyes behind the camera!

Thanks Samir! True that, but good gear makes my job easier!

Flawless victory!

Can't wait for 8k to be released to the public.

Thanks!

looks fantastic! Would love to hear a bit more about these vintage lenses.

So yea, I have the 24, 35, 45, 55, 80, 110, 120, 150, 210 and 300 lenses. All Sekor C/N versions. Most purchased off of eBay and some from K&H. I had to send a couple lenses back because the focus rotation was so stiff, then ordered those replacements from K&H and all was good! These are great lenses that render images beautifully.

Great stuff.

love the look you get with this kind of glass and even in modern scenes old glass can have a wonderful look.

David

Oh yea...love using vintage glass all the time!!

Looks AWESOME Chris!!!

Thanks dude!

Just saw these on instagram! They look gorgeous! I may have to hunt down a set of these lenses

Thanks James and yes, you should before others find out about them and prices sky-rocket!

Very cool Chris! I recently joined the Red family and shoot with Mamiya lenses. I'm old school in the digital world too though, as I shoot them on the R1MX.

Congrats on joining the best family in the world. I bet these look great on R1

Looks Gorgeous Chris!

Thanks Brian

BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO!!!!

Thanks man!

 

[Chris McKechnie]

More Grabs

More Grabs

 

[Ulf Krentz]

Chris, really very nice composed images, I dig the "vintage" component. No experience with Mamiya´s 645 glass but I also love the Sekors with our RZ, very underrated for sure. How do you feel they compare to old Nikkors?

 

[Chris McKechnie]

Chris, really very nice composed images, I dig the "vintage" component. No experience with Mamiya´s 645 glass but I also love the Sekors with our RZ, very underrated for sure. How do you feel they compare to old Nikkors?

Thanks Ulf. Never shot with Nikkors so I can't say...but Contax are close too...love those tiny lenses.

 

[Chris McKechnie]

More Vintage continues to shine!

More Vintage continues to shine!

Here are more straight from camera grabs - Scarlet-D, STH OLPF as well as some Epic MX

Shot on Mamiya Medium Format as well as Contax glass

 

[Minu Park]

I also own Mamiya prime sets including 300mm 2.8 and 400mm 4.5

Very good investment for sure.

It's sharp enough to use it on Photography (A7RII) at 2.8 or F4, and bokeh looks much better than canon lenses.

Very underestimated lenses

 

[Minu Park]

IF YOU WANT TO TRY MAMIYA OR BUY MAMIYA 645 SETS.

There are things that you need to aware of...

1. Wide angle is really hard to find. 24mm is fish eye, and 28mm is auto lens that you can't even use it on any cinema camera(it's about 3000-4000$), 35mm is about 250$, but it's really not wide enough in general.

2. Minimum close distance, generally it's really hard to shoot with a subject in very close distance due to it's minimum distance

3. The focus noses are moving forward and back ward, it means you need to add "wide focus ring" instead of thin one. Otherwise your follow focus gear might be losing the ring when you focus.

4. It's not dust proven, nor super high quality lenses like cinema glasses. It means there are big chances of your lenses will have dust in the lenses very easily(One of my 110 has been really struggling with dust, since I went to shoot in a beach)

5. You need to think of investing what kind of adapter you want to invest between good quality or poor quality but quantity.

In my case, I bought 20 of mamiya to canon adaptors bia whole sale in Alibaba. (I own 24, 35, 45, 55, 80, 110, 150, 200mm 2.8, and 300mm 2.8, and 400m 4.5), But I knew that these cheap adaptors won't last long, so I bought bunch of them in a time.

I paid 300$ for all of them, but it seems, you gotta pay 30-45$ per each adapter using decent company.
So far, it's been two years two of my adapters have been broken, and I still have 18 of them, furthermore I use canon lens back cap, and almost not taking the mamiya adapter off at all.

Some says, it's better get 200$ adapter(Kippon), but I do not want to pay 2000$ for adapters only, and I just gave it a try. To me it's no brainer to pay 2000$ for only adapting purposes for sets of 1500$ lens set (Mamiya 200mm, 300mm 2.8, and 400mm 4.5 are rare, and these guys priced very different from other lens sets[EX: I bought my 300mm 2.8 for 2800$ 6 years ago]

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Great shots in deed Chris.


And II agree with many here, the Mamiya 645 lenses do produce beautifully Organic images... If I wasn't going fully electronic on Still glass for specific reasons, I would not sale my last Mamiya set, but keeping it seating on the shelf without use makes no sense.


I had even gotten a Metabone for my a7RII so to use the Mamiya on it as well, but then just got the Batis for it, and testing the Otus & Art series for the Weapon, so they Mamiya need to go.

But in all honesty seen such images coming form it makes me want to hesitate... Great work Chris!!

 

[Chris McKechnie]

Great shots in deed Chris.


And II agree with many here, the Mamiya 645 lenses do produce beautifully Organic images... If I wasn't going fully electronic on Still glass for specific reasons, I would not sale my last Mamiya set, but keeping it seating on the shelf without use makes no sense.


I had even gotten a Metabone for my a7RII so to use the Mamiya on it as well, but then just got the Batis for it, and testing the Otus & Art series for the Weapon, so they Mamiya need to go.

But in all honesty seen such images coming form it makes me want to hesitate... Great work Chris!!

You should really keep-em Ketch! You're gonna miss them hehe

BTW, thanks for the compliments!