HDx35 adapter

[Peter Strietmann]

So I was at Chater Camera today and John was showing me some new stuff he has. The one thing that amazed me was the HDX35 adapter which adapts b4 mount lenses to pl. He put a long fuginon on the epic and we shot from his shop to a car across the street. You could actually read the number on the registration tab very clearly. I'm guessing but it had to be around 100 yards (see crappy iphone image below). He also showed me the new canon zoom (30-300) and that lens produces one of the sharpest images I have seen.

[Jacek Zakowicz]

haha the licence plate takes up most of the 17" screen. You better be able to read the numbers.....

[Peter Strietmann]

No, not the numbers on the license plate. The numbers on the tiny sticker on the top right of the registration tag which are about 1/16".

[John Chater]

We put up a lot of resistance to looking at the HDx35adapter that Abel built with IB/E Optics. It just seemed a bit funky in concept.
At the behest of a client we got one into the shop for testing and to be honest it surprised me and everyone that has seen it. The lens Peter looked at was the Fujinon HA25x16.5. This gives a 35mm zoom range equivalent of approx 41mm to 1035mm with a T Stop of approx 5.6. You can add a doubler to that if you wish. The image is super sharp, high contrast and depending on the video lens you use will cover 5k full frame. We look at Optimos, Master Primes and other high performance lenses on the Epic most days and this combo surprised us. If you need to shoot super telephoto on the Epic ( or most other large sensor PL mount cameras ) this is a pretty great option.

Mitch will be along with more details very soon :-)

Jacek - you didnt count to 10 before posting that one!

John

Chater Camera Inc - San Francisco

[Jacek Zakowicz]

Sorry guys, couldn't resist- no offense intended- the cheers emoticon was a giveaway I hope

[Mitch Gross]

Mitch will be along with more details very soon :-)

Thanks, John! ;-)

I was happily surprised when John told me their 25x Fuji covered 5K with the HDx35. It's designed to always cover 4K and with certain lenses will cover some of the 5K format. Magnification is 2.7x and light loss is 2.5 stops. So a 2/3" lens that's a 10mm set to a T2 becomes a 27mm T 4/5.6 when using the HDx35. Works great and we have many satisfied clients for RED and other cameras. We also make a cable to power the zoom servo off the P-Tap on the EPIC/Scarlet, and a cable for the RED One's Lemo-4 which will power the zoom and allow its REC trigger button control camera start/stop.

[Mark Deeble]

Really interested in this for wildlife - but probably like a lot of others, I have thought that it sounds too good to be true and have imagined that magnifying the image that much would give too much of a hit in resolution. Just wondered how it would compare and intercut with Nikon telephoto primes - has anyone tested?