Lens Baby 2.0 SLR lens used by Janus Kaminski

[Sanjin Jukic]

Lens Baby 2.0 SLR lens used by Janusz Kaminski, ASC:


taken from American Cinematographer, January 2008,
Text: A Body fails, A Mind Adapts by Patricia Thompson, page 22.

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SLR and DSLR lenses slowly but surely entering the big CINE arena.

[David Birdy]

Good Stuff Thanks Third Man,

The quote about the shutter being “out of phase” Is very interesting..
My understanding of shutters… mechanical or electronic is:
The main duty of a shutter is to let more or less light into/onto the pick-up device.
By adjusting from 180 degrees to 90 degrees you would allow twice as much light to hit the pick-up device, thus causing streaking..so I’m not sure how anything is out of phase..
Either I’m missing something or the term phase is not being used correctly.

The point of the article is clear and with the Nikon & Canon mount converter still photography lens’s can be used for the RED PL mount camera with some degree of success or a certain creative look…you would not dare to try and follow action and expect the focus to remain sharp. So there are limitations…but the still glass will be just another great creative tool for us to play with !

[Mike Prevette]

Kindof old news. Lensbabies now sell a PL version on their website.

[chuck colburn]

Good Stuff Thanks Third Man,

The quote about the shutter being “out of phase” Is very interesting..
My understanding of shutters… mechanical or electronic is:
The main duty of a shutter is to let more or less light into/onto the pick-up device.
By adjusting from 180 degrees to 90 degrees you would allow twice as much light to hit the pick-up device, thus causing streaking..so I’m not sure how anything is out of phase..
Either I’m missing something or the term phase is not being used correctly.

The point of the article is clear and with the Nikon & Canon mount converter still photography lens’s can be used for the RED PL mount camera with some degree of success or a certain creative look…you would not dare to try and follow action and expect the focus to remain sharp. So there are limitations…but the still glass will be just another great creative tool for us to play with !

Adjusting a shutter from 180 degrees to 90 degrees would cut the exspouser time in half thereby letting in ONE HALF as much light.

[Mike Prevette]

The "out of phase" refers to leaving the shutter open while the camera advances to the next frame. It creates a motion blur streak on the highlights in a frame.

[Anders Holck]

Like this:

[Sanjin Jukic]

Good Stuff Thanks Third Man,

The point of the article is clear and with the Nikon & Canon mount converter still photography lens’s can be used for the RED PL mount camera with some degree of success or a certain creative look…you would not dare to try and follow action and expect the focus to remain sharp. So there are limitations…but the still glass will be just another great creative tool for us to play with !

David, Anders you are both right.

Thanks for the summary and photos.

[Benjamin Rowland]

Check out version 3.0 on the lensbaby website.

[Sanjin Jukic]

Lens Baby 3.0 is available from the Spring 2007 worldwide as I know.

No doubts.

[Shawn Nelson]

Oh wow, a Lensbaby 3GPL is only $490! Dang, I really want to see what this would be like on a Red...