So it has come down to decision time… after much deliberation I have had to make the unfortunate call of moving away from the 5D anamorphic format in favour for the RED one with the same lenses.
It all came down to this final and simple fact…. The 35mm and 50mm were not up to standard compared to the image quality that we would achieve with the red.
This was soley due to the fact that the 35mm and 50mm lenses didn’t cover the sensor of the 5D enough which created vignetting which we had to crop into in order to get full coverage.
This caused the 35mm especially to have a far lesser quality resolution compared to the longer lenses eg 75mm and 100mm.
Although I say that about the 35mm and 50mm…. it just happens that the 75mm and 100mm look absolutely beautiful. Many people have commented saying that it is easily the best 5D footage that they had ever seen.
But I was not prepared to shoot on the 75mm and 100mm alone fro the entire job as you could imagine.
So this brings me to the end of our journey… I’m sorry that it wasn’t a fairy tale ending but it was certainly an adventure. In a final comment I would say that you can shoot 5D anamorphic with a 2:1 squeeze and with a focal length of over 50mm or you could get your hands on some 1.5x squeeze hawke anamorphics.
I will post examples of the 35mm, 50mm,75mm and 100mm footage soon so you can se the difference.
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