. in this video we're back with the suray anamorphic 1.6 times full frame but very
small lens I believe last month we did a video on this lens but they sent me out the RF version
which I paired with the Canon C70 but ever since I got my Ronin 4D they do offer a DL
Mount and so it was too perfect of a fit not to put together this combination and so suray sent
out the DL version so I could natively attach it to the Ronin 4D and see what sort of footage I
can capture out of it and what the experience is like compared to using the 17 to 28 native
DJI lens that I've been using since I first got this camera so balancing it on a camera
like the 4D isn't really an issue whatsoever now of course in order to use autofocus or
manual focus through the handles you need to also hook up the Focus motor the way I
have this set up I can literally go from the 17 to 28 DJI lens to this lens or any other
ends with the Focus motor in about 30 seconds now the first time you're setting up this lens
with this camera there's one extra step of actually if you want to use autofocus you need
to calibrate the lens for that and then it will save it in its profiles you do this by simply
telling the camera hey this is what minimum Focus looks like this is what Infinity Focus
looks like and then adds some various points in between and the more data points you give
it the better and more accurate each autofocus is going to be and the autofocus honestly has
been pretty spectacular which I never thought I was going to say autofocus on an anamorphic lens
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in one sense I'm very happy because the native DJI lens I've been using on the 4D have made
this camera very commercial I wasn't getting a lot of character out of this camera because of
the lens and attaching this anamorphic we can obviously see in this video I'm able to add
kind of my signature to my videos rather than it just being another like clean cut camera setup
viewing it in the camera is also easy because in the monitor settings you can have a anamorphic D
squeeze on your viewer there's not exactly 1.6 there's a 1.65 which is basically close enough
and it gives me a fairly accurate representation of what I'm going to get once I convert it to 1.6
in DaVinci Resolve which thankfully just recently in 18.5 update resolve added a custom anamorphic
D squeeze option because prior to that they only had a I believe 1.5 and a 2 and a couple options
but 1.6 was not in there and so now you're able to go into resolve and change your click clip
attributes to exactly 1.6 and you'll get a proper D squeeze that way so all very good timing for me
getting this lens when it comes to working with this lens there's of course still the minimum
Focus issue which right now I'm actually using a little close-up diopter which I got a full set of
these things for about 12 bucks and I believe I showed them off in the last video so right now as
you can see it's off and I'm out of focus but the background's in Focus because this is pretty much
minimum focus on that and not only does that give you the ability to do close-ups but for me it also
adds a lot more character to the lens itself to be honest even though this is a very cheap
add-on to the front of the lens I haven't noticed any bad like fringing or artifacting I mean don't
get me wrong it's not the most extreme stream high quality Aries anamorphic looking lens I
get that but considering the price of this entire lens package I think it gives a really cool look
and something that I personally would actually use on commercial or narrative short film projects the
other thing that you're really going to have to change in post is while anamorphic usually does
have a the con convex concave I don't know the the Distortion is usually a more barreled Distortion
where it's it's like this but for some reason this lens actually has a concave Distortion where lines
are like this now to be honest this isn't an issue whatsoever once you go into resolve and or really
any editing program and just make that slight adjustment it's incredibly easy to do and once
you figure out a good percentage for each lens you're working with you can pretty much just apply
that to all your clips and be good to go but it is something to take note of that you should be doing
and while you're viewing it on your monitor it can look a little crazy depending how many straight
lines and how close you are to those straight lines My overall thoughts haven't changed on this
lens and especially attached to the 4D it kind of has become my main a camera setup that I've fallen
in love with it's a great amount of character but I still have things like autofocus I can go from
a handheld locked off style shooting where I turn off the gimbal lock everything and I don't get any
sort of wobble because the lens isn't very heavy so contrary to popular belief with the 4D you can
still have that really nice handheld footage look or of course turn the gimbal back on and you will
have incredibly smooth footage and again being able to pair anamorphic with autofocus from the
lidar and tracking and all the various joysticks and options you get with something like the 4D you
can get incredibly beautiful and complex Flex camera movements without doing a whole lot of
work or at least missing the shot so for Run and Gun cinematic filmmakers documentary filmmakers
this is basically the dream setup in my opinion I think the biggest annoyance that I have now is
going back and forth between using this close-up filter and not so for example right now again I'm
nice and close up but if I wanted to pull Focus to this like tree in the background I can't do
that this is this is infinity with the macro lens hooked up so I have to screw it off and go through
that whole setup so one you're kind of limited into what your focus pulls of shots look like
if you want to go from super close up to Super far away you can't do that you'd have to have
the close-up subject be three feet and that's where I think having a longer focal length than
35 would definitely come into play or what I'm trying to find is a a very thin magnetic quick
release that for this 58 millimeter thread that I can put on the lens and then another magnetic
piece on the filter so that I can just kind of pop it on and off rather than having to sit there and
unscrew it it's not a huge deal and it allows me to use the lens which is incredibly helpful
and it's what again I think the final image is well worth it but if you get annoyed by simple
stuff like that it's definitely probably one of the biggest cons currently of course if you guys
want to learn more about this lens and anything I've talked about in this video check out the
link in the description down below thanks so much for watching see you in the next one