@@MediaDivision Oh man...not cool. Well, regardless...you did a phenomenal job! This series was one for the history books...I really don't think there's anything quite like it out there. I recommend it every chance I get!
Your work continues to be some of the best available today. The quality of your videos, not only from a technical and visual standpoint, but from a narrative and informational one, is second to none. Across the board, superb offerings. i hope your viewership increases dramatically because you deserve it. Thank you for your continued artistry and instruction. All the best to you and your family.
Totally our pleasure Robert… famously hope dies last. Thanks for hanging and spreading the word. We have cool upcoming things that hopefully reach a broader audience as this was very special.
After watching, I continue to be stunned by the quality of this production and its content. So meticulous and so well delivered! Sending you a big thanks. Please keep up the inspired work!
We are very happy you feel that way. It make the hard work easier to know that it falls on the right soil. Thanks again for your generous support and your kindness. We will try as long as we are able to feed our kids.
Thanks for producing this series! Watched the first two episodes before beginning my last show which was all shot on anamorphic lenses, really helped me get a better understanding of lens characteristics & how to replicate them for VFX. Appreciate it!
Couldn't do it without the support of generous people like you! Thank you Henry!! Very glad that the series was helpful beyond shooting anamorphic yourself
Epic as always Nikolas! Thank you. I had flashbacks to the original Terminator movie when Arny is about to do surgery when you held the cutter next to the rear element of the ISCO! Haha. Glad the rear element didn't plop down in a sink.
Your videos are always mesmerizing! Thank you for introducing me to the 28-70 zoom lens, by the way. Kimcamera has rehoused them as well, and I think when paired with an Iscorama, you could achieve a great single-focus anamorphic zoom. The Iscorama 54 is surprisingly powerful - it has usable vignetting at 60mm - on an Alexa 65!
Fascinating stuff, the result of the rear coating removal on the ISCO is very heavy handed flares that would be great for specific projects. I currently have a Aivascope 1.5x which is a great balance for me.
I will not be building an anamorphic setup nor will I even be using anamorphic in the near future but holy shit your work inspires me every single time. Danke
Very happy that we do… thats what the whole project is about... edutainment for a very specific small group of people. Maybe (just maybe) someday it comes in handy what you snapped up here. We would be proud.
Yes, yes and yes! Love all these series (and pretty much anything else you guys upload). Gonna load this up on the big screen later, sit back and drool 🙌
Thank you so much for your kindness and for supporting our mission Emmanuel. It is very much appreciated. We couldn't do anything close to this without you. We salute you!
Im GenX. This channel is what I thought college was going to be. Those secrets to life revealed in high quality teaching making the cost of the tuition, books and taking the bus all worth it. And driving away from graduation, "There goes one helluvan educated mind!"
Thanks a lot for your kindness C. … as a GenX myself, I appreciate your sense of wonder that seems to have evaporated… or, is it just us? Somewhere, there is a VHS with your name on it, and on other beeings will treat it as an archeological marvel. Try that GenZ ;-)
Thanks for this amazing content. The coating removal was the most intriguing. After you remove the coating (front element for example), what determines the flare colour?
Hey James.... thank you so much for your very generous support. We salute you! After a lot of experimentation I can tell you this much: You can totally see how flares will look by looking at the reflections shining a white light in to the lens. muted reflections=coated / unmuted reflections=uncoated. Coatings give a reflection a color bias so, coloured reflections will also show you the flare color. If the reflections has no color bias, it is likely uncoated and flares will fall into the light source color. NOW, there are many more surfaces within the lens (look at the diagram we show) and even the coating on the backside of the front element and two further ones in the first doublet will give color casts unless coatings are removed too. As you see in our example, the neutral main flare is mixed with some blue and green from those surfaces. The back elements shows a secondary flare with it's own characteristics following the same scheme. I hope this helps a bit... if you have more questions, go go
I am considering becoming something bigger in this world, and your work, in general, boosts the potential of all people who are into it. Great episode, yet I can't wait for another one to push my purview a bit further!
Great video, as always. Also great to see you using the Angie 28-70. I’ve got the 35-70 and 70-210 and they’re both near PF too. Largely forgotten are the FD 28-50 3.5 and 24-35 3.5, also near PF. Both very good zooms.
With pleasure. Well, I can sell some as I have so many, but I paid like 500$ each so, I will not sell under 700$+shipping, don't need money badly right now. No, I have not.
Im sorry but this episode is too short :D Seriously though, all the episodes are so brilliantly done, i've rewatched them couple times each. Its like a very good movie. I do have a very rudimentary youtube channel for buisiness and I just cant fathom the amount of work done on each video you made. Mine are WAY simpler and yet they take lot of time, but yours are really full blown cinema production. 11/10. Thanks for all the work, its greatly appreciated mate!
As for the golden rule of filmmaking "as long as it has to be and as short as it can be, all our episode are as short as the can be... and that can be long. We spent a ton of time on these... I think we take more time to write the description than others to produce a video... which is exactly why we are so reliant on the support of our viewers. Thanks for hanging and we appreciate you being around.
Thank you for your effort providing this information for free. I can‘t find the 95mm vivitar diopters in your shop-link. I ordered them on B&H and waited one year, untli they told me it will be no longer available. Do you have any idea, where I could still get them?
Our pleasure… yes, we couldn't find it any more either. It has been discontinued between filming and release, hence it is not on our Webstore. We have no clue where to get them or similar ones now. It's a pitty.
Best solution I’ve found is the aivascope 1.5x. Very affordable and terrific results. What’s more, I found that if you pair it with the Sirui 1.33x anamorphic lenses, you end up with a terrifically sharp 2x anamorphic setup with great flares (if you use the amber coated aivascope which really helps tone down those very harsh blue Sirui flares)
Thank you so much for doing this, it's extremely helpful! I've been thinking about removing my Isco's coating for a while... I do have one concern though: In your video at 32:52 I can see the flares in the uncoated version turned greenish as opposed to being blue/purple before the mod. Is that because the unaffected coatings on the REAR element of that particular Isco are green? Or is that something that I have to expect no matter what the original coating color is? Thanks!
The quick answer is that we don't know... one would have to remove several coatings from the SAME ISCO variant and do cross examination which we didn't do.
Would the Catta Ace be a decent "contender" for a parfocal zoom anamorphic setup? albeit being a tad bit long? i'm very curious to try it out when i get my hand on my CATTA set!
I found and purchased an 16mm B&H 2x anamorphic lens like the one shown and modded in this video. I have received all the parts to modify the lens, only thing I can’t find is the rear metric ring to convert to normal lens size. Can you advise me where to find this part?
@@MediaDivisionI have a question. After owning the modded version of this lens (Bell and Howell) for about 7 months now I wanted to know…does your lens only close focus? I’ve used this lens with taking lens of 85mm, 105mm and 135mm and it works perfectly and stay in focus but only at a certain distance. With the taking lens set to infinity and the Heliocoid at his full focus range I am only able to focus at about 2-3 feet max…infinity focus or anything beyond 3 ft is unattainable. I use this lens with a Blackmagic Pocket 4K camera paired with a Metabones speedbooster. I absolutely love it for what it is but it definitely has limitations. Is there something I can do to extend the focal plane past 2-3 feet with this setup?
At a rudimentary level it remains the same, I love anamorphic photography.... If you missed Dick Sweeneys part in SCOPE2, that is totally made for you. If you have some drying pain tell me... i come by and narrate it ;-) Thanks man
@@MediaDivision deal ! I really enjoy your videos, a lot of Information ! Now I will have to shot a video about paint and I will get in contact with you :)) ! Cheers !
Why not use Sirui Ana lens, they offer 1.6x full frame lens now in 50mm and 75mm. Also there is one company called Great Joy which offer like 1.8x Ana lens. Also the price is inexpensive.
iI you prefer those.. go for it. It is a but like asking why to cook a chicken soup when there is tinned soup Sirui, Laowa, and Great Joy all contacted us. To pull something off that is worth watching it takes time and money, and none of them felt it was worth it, so we had to decline. Why would we work and pay to do their marketing for free? While I haven't used any of them, I have yet to see any footage that has a "wow" effects. Images look sterile and sharp to appeal to an audience that is just not aware that softness is integral to a cinematic image. Especially the flares are designed to be very very .....obvious? Projector lenses are different and DIY is a field for those who ask for more.
Not Obvious to me. I am in California's Silicon Valley. You could have meant something else. From all the SLR Magic 2x videos on UA-cam, only one seems focus sharply. This guy didn't use a single focus solution. Interesting. I will have to check this out. I bought a SLR Magic 2x 50mm and the SLR variable diopter. It could be the choice of taking lens that he used.
Let me put it this way, it was the only word in your entire presentation that I didn't understand. So I thought I would ask. I was not making fun of your English. I thought it might be something else. After all you did you iris in combination with it, which is sort of redundant. I guess you could say that the Aperture is the hole that the Iris produces. So it would be different. This is a very detailed Episode.
It is with ultimate dismay that I came to the realization that this channel is very much the exact opposite of what modern popularity demands. Media Division packs dense information, is highly professional, and is very objective with little to no over-the-top jokes. Moden general audiences, on the other hand, prefer easy-to-understand, short in length, and entertaining content. Most other popular photography/cinematography channels play exactly to that, using 5-20 min video, adding lots of personality showoff, almost solely in review or interview format, and then selling LUTs. On one hand, I wish Media Division could stay away from the hideous instant gratification style video, and keep producing high-quality contents that are objective and informative as they are now. But at the same time, I reckon and painfully experienced that passion alone can do very little, without enough support, no passion can be powerful enough to deny reality. I don't know how to put it, this channel is not underrated, it's just too good to be noticed by an impatient world.
Hey Amarth… first and foremost, thank you so much for your support. The Division salutes you! We do see the numbers on the SCOPE series with watering eyes, especially considering the amount of time and heart blood that went into it - although we did expect that to a degree. Especially the third part caters to a niche within a niche within a niche and we will go back to more accessible and less specialised content. What we will not do is produce lesser quality… there is enough bad content out there and we will always choose quality over quantity. Sometimes it doesn't batter if you have 10.000 or 1.000.000 views… it matters that you reach the right people. The Media Division established itself as one of the most sophisticated channels for the subject, and one of the very few channels, that caters to professionals. We think that the SCOPE series did help in that regard, so, we don't think it was for nothing. We have several interesting projects in the works right now… and we are looking forward to blow some minds later this year. Your support makes it possible.
Maybe I'm not being clear! I figured that the red lock ring for these are always red. The black one I didn't know existed. Unless, do you mean these rings are always there when the scope is taken outside an fmj or pooli clamp?
This is how ALL my ISCO ultra star look when you remove the jacket. The Ultra Star in its normal appearance has a metal jacket that can be removed by unscrewing it.
The quality of thesee videos is over the roof and it breaks my heart to see the pathetic amount of viewes they get. I've watched all of your videos guys, tho I'm not even into film making. Hope something changes and you'll get the attention you really deserve!
Thanks a lot. Yes, we have to consider the SCOPE series a commercial flop that did generate a cult following. It is the "fight club" of UA-cam ;-) Hope dies last ;-(
Liebe die Serie, aber manchmal triggert mich die ansonsten sehr gute Englische Aussprache doch extrem: Bitte REAR nicht wie RARE aussprechen und SET ist ein irreguläres Verb - nix mit "SETTED".. :)
@@MediaDivision Bin relativ sicher, ihr macht das besser als die Öffis. Den extrem hohen Anspruch an euch selbst sieht man doch auch. Und wisst ja jetzt um zwei Worte mehr, auf die man achten kann. Evtl. einen anderen YT Creator wie z.B RewBoss als native English speaker die Folgen als Vorschau ansehen lassen?
@@MediaDivision No worries. Judging by the amount of blooming I'm guessing it could've been something like a 1 or 2 strength. It does a great job of enhancing the streaks and adding texture around the light source. It was Tiffen BDFX, right?
Episode III : Revenge of the Scope
The dark side of the lens ;-)
I have failed you
Almost forgot there was gonna be a part 3 to this! What a great way to start a Friday!
Good thing take time... I was hoping to get some partners on board, but one after another jumped boat :-(
@@MediaDivision Oh man...not cool. Well, regardless...you did a phenomenal job! This series was one for the history books...I really don't think there's anything quite like it out there. I recommend it every chance I get!
@@MediaDivision That's their loss. This series is amazing.
Your work continues to be some of the best available today. The quality of your videos, not only from a technical and visual standpoint, but from a narrative and informational one, is second to none. Across the board, superb offerings. i hope your viewership increases dramatically because you deserve it. Thank you for your continued artistry and instruction. All the best to you and your family.
Totally our pleasure Robert… famously hope dies last. Thanks for hanging and spreading the word. We have cool upcoming things that hopefully reach a broader audience as this was very special.
This is a masterclass....and it's also not lost on me that there are people dressed in armor for our benefit. This channel is one of a kind.
Thanks man... yeah, Dierk is such a treasure to have done this. The weight, the heat... for him it was pure torture.
Thank you for your epic passion and dedication to exploring these wonderful lenses!
Sweet Joe... that is very generous and helpful.... Thank you so much for your support. This is for you!!!
After watching, I continue to be stunned by the quality of this production and its content. So meticulous and so well delivered! Sending you a big thanks. Please keep up the inspired work!
We are very happy you feel that way. It make the hard work easier to know that it falls on the right soil. Thanks again for your generous support and your kindness. We will try as long as we are able to feed our kids.
It’s unreal how excellent this series has been
Thanks a lot Jed… we wish it would have been a little more successful :-(
Thanks for producing this series! Watched the first two episodes before beginning my last show which was all shot on anamorphic lenses, really helped me get a better understanding of lens characteristics & how to replicate them for VFX. Appreciate it!
Couldn't do it without the support of generous people like you! Thank you Henry!! Very glad that the series was helpful beyond shooting anamorphic yourself
Whoop whoop! Just picked up the ISCO Ultra Star 2x. Excited for this one. Thanks for putting it together!
Than this is indeed for you... enjoy. Our pßleasure
Like a good classic, the sequels come after a while, and fans are hungry for these.
well, we appreciate the excitement just hoping it would be a bit more
Epic as always Nikolas! Thank you. I had flashbacks to the original Terminator movie when Arny is about to do surgery when you held the cutter next to the rear element of the ISCO! Haha. Glad the rear element didn't plop down in a sink.
Always always.... yeah, not for the faint of heart.... neither T-800 bathroom fun nor the ISCO. Thanks for hanging
I've only watched the first ten seconds and I'm already glued to the screen. Epic presentation and content. Now watching the full video.
Thats exactly what we are going for… glad it works for you. Enjoy!
I saw the instagram post before any UA-cam notification, has to be the highest quality film channel on UA-cam, big fan of the work done here.
It is always interesting that YT notifications just don't work... glad you found it anyways. Thanks a lot, always trying to improve
Your videos are always mesmerizing! Thank you for introducing me to the 28-70 zoom lens, by the way. Kimcamera has rehoused them as well, and I think when paired with an Iscorama, you could achieve a great single-focus anamorphic zoom. The Iscorama 54 is surprisingly powerful - it has usable vignetting at 60mm - on an Alexa 65!
This was a great series, thanks!
Hey Ducky... thank you so much for your kindness and your generosity! You make content like this possible. We salute you!!!
Thanks everyone that worked on the series. Amazing I shoud say!
Our pleasure Miguel! Thanks for the flowers… please spread the word!!
Well this is a nice surprise
Enjoy!
Fascinating stuff, the result of the rear coating removal on the ISCO is very heavy handed flares that would be great for specific projects. I currently have a Aivascope 1.5x which is a great balance for me.
Thanks… yeah, VERY specific. Like we said… not to be recommended. We do it so you don't have to ;-)
these are some of my favorite videos
Glad you feel hat way Brenton!
This series is nothing short of incredible. Thank you.
Thanks Colin... very happy you thinks so. It is our pleasure
[Tito Ferradans heavy-breathing intensifies]
I hope you mean this in a pure state of arousal and not in anger.
Wooow out of nowhere all of a sudden!
Been posting stuff around it for month?!
I never was that much glued to a screen xD
Glad you feel that way Jonathan! Thanks for hanging and … spread the word!
I will not be building an anamorphic setup nor will I even be using anamorphic in the near future but holy shit your work inspires me every single time. Danke
Very happy that we do… thats what the whole project is about... edutainment for a very specific small group of people. Maybe (just maybe) someday it comes in handy what you snapped up here. We would be proud.
Another masterpiece.👍
Thanks a lot…! Enjoy!
@11:21 - That moment is why I love this channel.
Another great video. Thank you for your dedication and hard work to furthering the art.
I frech kiss all cine lenses ;-) our pleasure Ben and thanks for hanging
Another amazing episode, Nikolas! The amount of work you put in and the resulting quality of these videos are truly astounding.
Thanks Gerald... why sleep if you can do this
Yes, yes and yes! Love all these series (and pretty much anything else you guys upload). Gonna load this up on the big screen later, sit back and drool 🙌
Go for it... surely best on a huge screen. Thanks for watching
Thanks for your great content
Thank you for your support and kindness Jeroen! Very much appreciated. We salute you
Learnt so much, thank you!
Glad you feel that way... it is our pleasure.
I'm Hyped
You truly deserve it... thank you so much for your support. We salute you!
Great video
Thanks man
As always a complete legendary episode, sad that is the last one, nice job ❤️❤️❤️
Glad you enjoyed it... never say never, but I wouldn't know what more I could do with anamorphic for now
Awesome, i'm so happy to see part 3!
Great… wish there where more like you
These videos always put a smile on my face
Glad they do man.... that is nice
Thanks, amazing job !
Thank you so much for your kindness and for supporting our mission Emmanuel. It is very much appreciated. We couldn't do anything close to this without you. We salute you!
@@MediaDivision My pleasure ! Thanks to you.
Im GenX. This channel is what I thought college was going to be. Those secrets to life revealed in high quality teaching making the cost of the tuition, books and taking the bus all worth it. And driving away from graduation, "There goes one helluvan educated mind!"
Thanks a lot for your kindness C. … as a GenX myself, I appreciate your sense of wonder that seems to have evaporated… or, is it just us? Somewhere, there is a VHS with your name on it, and on other beeings will treat it as an archeological marvel. Try that GenZ ;-)
Absolutely fantastic. Deeply inspiring!
We love you to be inspired… thats what it's all about. Thanks man!
This was a fantastic series. Great Job guys!
Thanks Steve... appreciated
Wow, LOVED this beautiful series ♥️🙏🏽
Thanks Mick... very happy you did!
Finally! It’s been like a year since part 2 dropped!
that sounds a little bit like we owe you something?
@@MediaDivision nope, I’m just glad part 3 dropped so I can watch the completion of this masterclass in scope anamorphic.
Thanks for this amazing content. The coating removal was the most intriguing. After you remove the coating (front element for example), what determines the flare colour?
Hey James.... thank you so much for your very generous support. We salute you! After a lot of experimentation I can tell you this much: You can totally see how flares will look by looking at the reflections shining a white light in to the lens. muted reflections=coated / unmuted reflections=uncoated. Coatings give a reflection a color bias so, coloured reflections will also show you the flare color. If the reflections has no color bias, it is likely uncoated and flares will fall into the light source color. NOW, there are many more surfaces within the lens (look at the diagram we show) and even the coating on the backside of the front element and two further ones in the first doublet will give color casts unless coatings are removed too. As you see in our example, the neutral main flare is mixed with some blue and green from those surfaces. The back elements shows a secondary flare with it's own characteristics following the same scheme. I hope this helps a bit... if you have more questions, go go
@@MediaDivision thank you for taking the time to explain. Really helpful!
Been looking forward to this! Thank you once again for a brilliant exposé!
With pleasure... enjoy
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support Jianshi... we salute you!!!
“I love the smell of fresh Media Division in the morning.”
Hey.... sounds familiar 😅 thanks a lot for your support A51
DIY anamorphic isnt dead! :D
...and why would it be... it's not disco 😁
Omg @Media Division drops a video and I gotta watch.
Thats the spirit...... thanks man
Thank you, your content is appreciated!
Thank you so much Space!!! Very much appreciated.... your generosity helps us and filmmakers around the globe. We salute you!
brilliant!
Thanks Batzon... and thanks for being a fresh member. You make it possible - for that, we salute you!
Danke!
Wir Danke Dir sehr herzlich für Deinen großzügigen Support!!!!!!!!! We salut you!
Where do you find your music? It gives all of your content such an auditory polish!
Artlist.io
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It is in the description, too
finally... the sequel!
Yep.... I finally got rid of it.
Simply brillant. What would happen if the two elements of the adapter would be put closer together? Wider FOV or just garbage?
Thanks.... it wouldn't provide the right optical formula. These are designed for that specific distance.
Thanks! 😊
Thanks a lot for your support Mattias. Very much appreciated! We salute you!
Greatest dude.
Tell my wife ;-) Thanks man
I am considering becoming something bigger in this world, and your work, in general, boosts the potential of all people who are into it. Great episode, yet I can't wait for another one to push my purview a bit further!
That is all we ever hoped and aspired for creating this channel… thank you for your kindness and your support. This is for you!
Great video, as always. Also great to see you using the Angie 28-70. I’ve got the 35-70 and 70-210 and they’re both near PF too. Largely forgotten are the FD 28-50 3.5 and 24-35 3.5, also near PF. Both very good zooms.
My tokina 28-70 Vignette at 28 with 1.35x Adapter at S35 from the BMD Ursa.
Of course it depends on the adapter... the Letus is the widest one out there and it barely goes to 28mm with the Angie
Right... the 28-70 is simply the most usable range in the context.
Thanks for the awesome content!
With pleasure man! Thanks for watching
Thank You very much! Are you perhaps selling any of Your ISCO's. And have you tried any wide angle front adapters for projector lenses?
With pleasure. Well, I can sell some as I have so many, but I paid like 500$ each so, I will not sell under 700$+shipping, don't need money badly right now. No, I have not.
Finally
Took a while... some partners are difficult and abandon you half way. I hope it is worth the wait! Thanks a lot for your support Ferhat!!
@@MediaDivision As these comments state, undoubtedly your work is top notch. My support.. it aint much but it is honest work ;)
Of everybody did just that…. We could warp space time ;-) it is very much appreciated. Thank you Ferhat
Im sorry but this episode is too short :D Seriously though, all the episodes are so brilliantly done, i've rewatched them couple times each. Its like a very good movie.
I do have a very rudimentary youtube channel for buisiness and I just cant fathom the amount of work done on each video you made. Mine are WAY simpler and yet they take lot of time, but yours are really full blown cinema production. 11/10. Thanks for all the work, its greatly appreciated mate!
As for the golden rule of filmmaking "as long as it has to be and as short as it can be, all our episode are as short as the can be... and that can be long. We spent a ton of time on these... I think we take more time to write the description than others to produce a video... which is exactly why we are so reliant on the support of our viewers. Thanks for hanging and we appreciate you being around.
Thanks
Thank YOU... we couldn't do anything close to this without the support of kind people like you. We salute you!
woww thanks
Pleasure Suat… glad you enjoy
Thank you for your effort providing this information for free. I can‘t find the 95mm vivitar diopters in your shop-link. I ordered them on B&H and waited one year, untli they told me it will be no longer available. Do you have any idea, where I could still get them?
Our pleasure… yes, we couldn't find it any more either. It has been discontinued between filming and release, hence it is not on our Webstore. We have no clue where to get them or similar ones now. It's a pitty.
Best solution I’ve found is the aivascope 1.5x. Very affordable and terrific results. What’s more, I found that if you pair it with the Sirui 1.33x anamorphic lenses, you end up with a terrifically sharp 2x anamorphic setup with great flares (if you use the amber coated aivascope which really helps tone down those very harsh blue Sirui flares)
Sounds great... would have loved to put an Aivascope in the series, but it is too expensive to just buy for that purpose
Thank you for your help
With pleasure ! Thanks for watching
Thank you so much for doing this, it's extremely helpful! I've been thinking about removing my Isco's coating for a while...
I do have one concern though: In your video at 32:52 I can see the flares in the uncoated version turned greenish as opposed to being blue/purple before the mod. Is that because the unaffected coatings on the REAR element of that particular Isco are green? Or is that something that I have to expect no matter what the original coating color is? Thanks!
The quick answer is that we don't know... one would have to remove several coatings from the SAME ISCO variant and do cross examination which we didn't do.
@@MediaDivision makes sense, thanks anyway for the quick reply!
Is it possible to reduce the blue saturation of the flares on the SLR Magic by removing an exterior coating?
Maybe? Probably? Only one way to find out, but I am not going to do it
Would the Catta Ace be a decent "contender" for a parfocal zoom anamorphic setup? albeit being a tad bit long?
i'm very curious to try it out when i get my hand on my CATTA set!
Never used one, so… I don't know
I found and purchased an 16mm B&H 2x anamorphic lens like the one shown and modded in this video. I have received all the parts to modify the lens, only thing I can’t find is the rear metric ring to convert to normal lens size. Can you advise me where to find this part?
sorry, i got mine with ring, so I don't know where to get it.
@@MediaDivisionI have a question. After owning the modded version of this lens (Bell and Howell) for about 7 months now I wanted to know…does your lens only close focus?
I’ve used this lens with taking lens of 85mm, 105mm and 135mm and it works perfectly and stay in focus but only at a certain distance.
With the taking lens set to infinity and the Heliocoid at his full focus range I am only able to focus at about 2-3 feet max…infinity focus or anything beyond 3 ft is unattainable.
I use this lens with a Blackmagic Pocket 4K camera paired with a Metabones speedbooster. I absolutely love it for what it is but it definitely has limitations.
Is there something I can do to extend the focal plane past 2-3 feet with this setup?
I am into photography not video but the sound of the narrator's voice would make listen to the description of how paint dries.
At a rudimentary level it remains the same, I love anamorphic photography.... If you missed Dick Sweeneys part in SCOPE2, that is totally made for you. If you have some drying pain tell me... i come by and narrate it ;-) Thanks man
@@MediaDivision deal ! I really enjoy your videos, a lot of Information ! Now I will have to shot a video about paint and I will get in contact with you :)) ! Cheers !
God I love this channel even though still photography is more my thing 😅! Thank you guys for all the work you put into these projects.
Thanks man... appreciate your kindness and hanging around
There's a weird stretching effect when you pull focus at 15:38, is this normal?
I don't think I usually see that
If you watch SCOPE chapter one, we talk about this effects and that it is common with anamorphic: Asymmetric breathing
Why not use Sirui Ana lens, they offer 1.6x full frame lens now in 50mm and 75mm. Also there is one company called Great Joy which offer like 1.8x Ana lens. Also the price is inexpensive.
iI you prefer those.. go for it. It is a but like asking why to cook a chicken soup when there is tinned soup
Sirui, Laowa, and Great Joy all contacted us. To pull something off that is worth watching it takes time and money, and none of them felt it was worth it, so we had to decline. Why would we work and pay to do their marketing for free?
While I haven't used any of them, I have yet to see any footage that has a "wow" effects. Images look sterile and sharp to appeal to an audience that is just not aware that softness is integral to a cinematic image.
Especially the flares are designed to be very very .....obvious?
Projector lenses are different and DIY is a field for those who ask for more.
@@MediaDivision Good point. Thank you for sharing your idea. By the way, your content is one of the most enjoyable videos on the internet. Love you!
Glad you feel like our work is worth it. Enjoy! We love you too ;-)
Hello dear how are you I just want to ask you how to do that you changed the face actor
like this: ua-cam.com/users/shortsagIeQ1-4AGM
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Aperture…. Obviously
Not Obvious to me. I am in California's Silicon Valley. You could have meant something else.
From all the SLR Magic 2x videos on UA-cam, only one seems focus sharply. This guy didn't use a single focus solution. Interesting. I will have to check this out. I bought a SLR Magic 2x 50mm and the SLR variable diopter. It could be the choice of taking lens that he used.
Let me put it this way, it was the only word in your entire presentation that I didn't understand. So I thought I would ask. I was not making fun of your English. I thought it might be something else. After all you did you iris in combination with it, which is sort of redundant. I guess you could say that the Aperture is the hole that the Iris produces. So it would be different. This is a very detailed Episode.
It is with ultimate dismay that I came to the realization that this channel is very much the exact opposite of what modern popularity demands.
Media Division packs dense information, is highly professional, and is very objective with little to no over-the-top jokes. Moden general audiences, on the other hand, prefer easy-to-understand, short in length, and entertaining content. Most other popular photography/cinematography channels play exactly to that, using 5-20 min video, adding lots of personality showoff, almost solely in review or interview format, and then selling LUTs.
On one hand, I wish Media Division could stay away from the hideous instant gratification style video, and keep producing high-quality contents that are objective and informative as they are now. But at the same time, I reckon and painfully experienced that passion alone can do very little, without enough support, no passion can be powerful enough to deny reality.
I don't know how to put it, this channel is not underrated, it's just too good to be noticed by an impatient world.
Hey Amarth… first and foremost, thank you so much for your support. The Division salutes you!
We do see the numbers on the SCOPE series with watering eyes, especially considering the amount of time and heart blood that went into it - although we did expect that to a degree. Especially the third part caters to a niche within a niche within a niche and we will go back to more accessible and less specialised content. What we will not do is produce lesser quality… there is enough bad content out there and we will always choose quality over quantity. Sometimes it doesn't batter if you have 10.000 or 1.000.000 views… it matters that you reach the right people. The Media Division established itself as one of the most sophisticated channels for the subject, and one of the very few channels, that caters to professionals. We think that the SCOPE series did help in that regard, so, we don't think it was for nothing. We have several interesting projects in the works right now… and we are looking forward to blow some minds later this year. Your support makes it possible.
Where does one find the black focus lock ring on the isco ultrastar? at 9:49
Under the hood.... this is what an ultra star looks like, when you remove the outer jacket.
When I bought my red isco years ago, it didn't have the focus lock ring. I've seen red iscos with red focus lock ring, but never a black one.
Maybe I'm not being clear!
I figured that the red lock ring for these are always red. The black one I didn't know existed.
Unless, do you mean these rings are always there when the scope is taken outside an fmj or pooli clamp?
This is how ALL my ISCO ultra star look when you remove the jacket. The Ultra Star in its normal appearance has a metal jacket that can be removed by unscrewing it.
@@MediaDivision oh interesting. Huh.
Listen, drag out your 645 lenses for this test, only use a dumb adapter. I did and it worked great. Zero Vignetting.
it is not about specific brands or formats.... just the field of view and the position of the entrance pupil
Your eon anothe rlevel Nicholas.
Thanks A… appreciated. Ironically I sit on -1 ;-)
Theoretically, you wouldn’t need a parfocal zoom if using a variable diopter.
you still would if your infinity focus shifts on zoom... like we said, you can probably control that working on the back focus
The quality of thesee videos is over the roof and it breaks my heart to see the pathetic amount of viewes they get. I've watched all of your videos guys, tho I'm not even into film making.
Hope something changes and you'll get the attention you really deserve!
Thanks a lot. Yes, we have to consider the SCOPE series a commercial flop that did generate a cult following. It is the "fight club" of UA-cam ;-)
Hope dies last ;-(
I am so disappointed I the algorithm
Yeah.... me, too. This is a monument on how not to do it.
So I'm gonna unsubscribe, then resubscribe. YT getting on my nerves.
If it is about notifications... they never really worked so don't get high hopes
@@MediaDivision Hmmm. 🤔 I'll just stop by every few months
thanks a lot the used market price is gonna go out of line again
If you don’t like to share information and passion please watch something else
Thanks!
Thank you so much Benjamin.... very much appreciated. We salute you!!
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Thanks a lot for your donation Maarten… very much appreciated. You really help us on our mission and we salute you!
Ooooooh yeah. Been waiting for this bad boy to drop. 👌
Lets hope it doesn't smash ;-)
@@MediaDivision never disappoints. 👌
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Thanks a lot Zatore… very much appreciate your support. We salute you!
Thanks!
Thanks a lot for your generosity Mikey… we couldn't do it without the kind support of people like you. This video is for you!
Thanks!
THANKS A TON ROLF! WE SALUTE YOU!!!!
f**k yes, let's go
Thats the spirit ;-)
No Way!!!!!!!! I w as beginning to think this was never going to drop!
problems with partners... what can I say
@@MediaDivision You guys are the best!
Hello, very good video, I have the gold ultrastar isco, with the filled blue star. Can you do the same thing to the RED ISCO?
All the best.
Thank you... we rather don't give advice or even opinions with gear or processes that we have not tried ourselves.
So glad to see this back! Informative, entertaining and inspirational!!! 👍👍👍
Thanks man... nerd unite!!!!
What a nice surprise! I can't wait do download it and watch it in 8k!
P.S. was it mastered to be viewed on a display with 2.4 or 2.2 gamma?
Please do… 2.4 gamma it is
@@MediaDivision Thank you!
Liebe die Serie, aber manchmal triggert mich die ansonsten sehr gute Englische Aussprache doch extrem: Bitte REAR nicht wie RARE aussprechen und SET ist ein irreguläres Verb - nix mit "SETTED".. :)
Da bist dann aber falsch hier… Perfektion gibts beim öffentlich rechtlichem TV. Die können sich eine mit Deiner GEZ finanziert Korrektur erlauben.
@@MediaDivision Bin relativ sicher, ihr macht das besser als die Öffis. Den extrem hohen Anspruch an euch selbst sieht man doch auch. Und wisst ja jetzt um zwei Worte mehr, auf die man achten kann. Evtl. einen anderen YT Creator wie z.B RewBoss als native English speaker die Folgen als Vorschau ansehen lassen?
Incredible video! Which strength of Black Diffusion FX is being used in the example @29:58 (1/8, 1/4, etc.)? Thanks!
Thanks … Sorry, but I don't remember
@@MediaDivision No worries. Judging by the amount of blooming I'm guessing it could've been something like a 1 or 2 strength. It does a great job of enhancing the streaks and adding texture around the light source. It was Tiffen BDFX, right?
awesome! glad this series is continuing
Thanks.... concluded! I am happy to finally leave the series. Well, if something interesting is coming.... who knows
Fantastic thanks for another excellent video!
My pleasure James! Enjoy!