Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted May 2, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 2, 2006 Is anyone other than P+S Technik or CineMek manufacturing a lens system that will allow me to adapt manual focus lenses to the Panasonic DVX-100? If so, I need something that is readily available in L.A. Products that are in development or on back-order aren't what I'm looking for here. I wonder if any of the camera houses have created their own lens tube/adapter? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Michael Nash Posted May 2, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 2, 2006 http://www.redrockmicro.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Kellner Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 It's difficult finding any that aren't back ordered. As an option, you might try posting on the various adapter manufacturer's forums to see if someone is willing to rent their equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Nicholson Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Is anyone other than P+S Technik or CineMek manufacturing a lens system that will allow me to adapt manual focus lenses to the Panasonic DVX-100? If so, I need something that is readily available in L.A. Products that are in development or on back-order aren't what I'm looking for here. I wonder if any of the camera houses have created their own lens tube/adapter? Thanks. Letus Extreme 35mm Adapter is the bomb. best adapter on the market comparable to the P&S Technik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Roberts Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 http://www.cinevate.com/catalog/product_in...?products_id=71 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Abel has MOVIEtube models available for sale and rent. In my book still the best system available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tim O'Connor Posted June 3, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted June 3, 2008 Abel has MOVIEtube models available for sale and rent. In my book still the best system available. Hi Mitch, I went on the Abel Cine website to see about the Movietube and one of the things that I read was the review by the Belgian DP who loves it. I'm curious about a couple of things. He wrote: "You must increase the level of detail to +3 in the camera, just in combination with the MOVIEtube ST, otherwise the images will be blurred." I'm pretty sure about this but, since the HVX-200 has detail and vertical detail settings, as well as coring, he's talking about the first detail setting? "With reference to zoom and distance, do not set metrics. Set numerical values. This way you can set the camera values better. You have to be fastidious in ensuring that the sharpness in our case is e.g. 95 and the zoom is approx 83." Okay, I know some people prefer/trust the numbers rather than the ostensible distance measurements. Also, it seems that he's saying don't go any wider than 83 (when the zoom is set to up to 99 scale as opposed to mm.) and I can see why but what does he mean by adjusting sharpness, in his case to 93? Maybe I'm just spacing out because I'm up late reading on here when I should have gone to sleep long ago, but I have an HVX-200 and I can't think of what else he might mean by sharpness. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 For the detailing, that's just his personal preference. I don't consider it an absolute truth. As for the lens settings, the way to accurately mount the MOVIEtube adapter is to zoom in until the projection of the image coming out of the MOVIEtube covers the full field of the camera. Then set focus on the video camera's lens to infinity. I like to tweak this infinity setting a bit using a decent monitor, as some of these camcorders can be a little bit off. But that's all that is necessary to set it properly. Takes just a few minutes, which is dramatically different than some of the other adapters out there (okay, ALL of the other adapters out there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tim O'Connor Posted June 3, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted June 3, 2008 For the detailing, that's just his personal preference. I don't consider it an absolute truth. As for the lens settings, the way to accurately mount the MOVIEtube adapter is to zoom in until the projection of the image coming out of the MOVIEtube covers the full field of the camera. Then set focus on the video camera's lens to infinity. I like to tweak this infinity setting a bit using a decent monitor, as some of these camcorders can be a little bit off. But that's all that is necessary to set it properly. Takes just a few minutes, which is dramatically different than some of the other adapters out there (okay, ALL of the other adapters out there). Excellent, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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