Vintage Glass x Anamorphic Adaptors? Lens testing on Red Komodo, Dragon and Sony A7siii

Wanted to shoot native anamorphic, using lenses you already own? I did.. So last year I did some extensive testing using the SLR Magic Anamorphot 1.33x adaptor. I paired this adaptor with vintage lenses from my kit I was already very familiar with and have come to love - Primarily with Contax-Zeiss primes, but also throwing into the mix a Minolta-Rokkor 50mm and the Helios 44-M 58mm.
In this video is a bunch of test footage I shot in South Korea on a trip last year, as well as around home in Sydney. The following cameras where used:
- Red Komodo (Nature scenes shot in Korea - Jeju Island to be particular)
- Sony A7siii (Seoul food market scenes, Sydney Test shoots near the start)
- Red Dragon (Interview, rainy night scenes, underwater scenes)
Final aspect ratio of the edit - 2.40:1. Edited and graded in Davinci Resolve.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Background
02:13 - First tests, Sydney
04:02 - Footage - Jeju Island, South Korea
05:30 - Initial thoughts
07:09 - Footage - Food market, Seoul
07:55 - Thoughts on the product
10:40 - Night shots, Sydney
11:30 - Outro

[@myvideoguy]

Great stuff mate. Can't wait to see the breakdown of your short doc with this adapter. Cheers Legend 👍

[@myvideoguy]

Quick question too - with your Contax Zeiss lenses, out of curiosity, are you rockin the AEGs or MMJ's?

[@calebgrahamfilms]

Cheers mate! So with the exception of my 50mm Im on all MMJ's. AE's are sweet as well though - I love my 50 1.4 and didnt see the need to change it over, it matches the others fine the only difference is the 'ninja star bokeh' when you're wide open - People talk a lot of shit on that but I reckon its fine, and you can just stop down to 2.8 if you're not into it