train train train train train train train train train train train here he
comes here it comes let's go let's go let's go pass the lights or maybe we get even some
lens flares i think that worked out i have this weird fascination with shooting people
shoot oh my god it's getting loud now all right i'm ready where you are
yo good morning everyone today is a very special day here in chicago it's chicago hedge time
which provides us with the perfect conditions to shoot during sunset and sunrise and it's also
a saint patty's day race going on so we have the perfect conditions to try out the new lens
i just got the survey 50 millimeter anamorphic lens t2.9 1.6 squeeze i just not only threw it
on the komodo i also have the gimbal out so we're trying out a different kind of video where i strap
a gopro and a 360 camera on me and we just go out and shoot and capture whatever we see i'm
going to talk a little bit about the lens and how i shoot so tag along and let's see how it goes
let's go
let's go get him
all right let's put some nd filter on it's an 85 82 millimeter front cap and so it fits
with most of my lens with most of my nd filters as well which is kind of handy using here the pull up
pro vnd it has a color cast but if i use it at the lower range the lower end it should be fine
i like the overall build quality of those so
that's a win for sure okay let's open up the aperture get some shallow depth of field in and
get some more of the sunrise here oh i wish there would be more people walking there's a race today
like a 10k race downtown so everything is mostly shut down so you don't see that many
cars but i would i would have hoped for more people walking around honestly they're just
setting up the barriers over there not sure if we can capture that let's get a shot here
infinity focus so when i pull this lens to all the way infinity it is not properly back focused so
it goes out of focus i have to go like not all the way but like a couple of
stops before it let's see if i can get a photographer
as a foreground subject and get some shallow depth of field maybe with the flares in the background
see if that's something that that works out already trying out the lens here
today just for shoots and giggles and here look at this everybody's lined up
okay let's see if we can get some reflection here with the puddles and nicely mode
and let's go legit workout with this gimbal and camera set up honestly
but that's what we're here for right
i mean sunrise and sunset when you have the direct sun flares like or the flares from the side direct
sunlight it's just a good way to show off the qualities of this lens so what i noticed is that
it is not like great consistency especially in the mft versions of the siri lenses
in terms of the colors that the flares give
they get it a little bit more under control with the full frame ones though mine seems
to be a little greenish turquoise edge with others are a little bit more blue so
be the judge yourself but i honestly like the color i also like the strength of those and not
too bad not too like excessive especially now as you can see we're shooting right into the sunrise
and you have the the primary flare as well as the copies some like they can be
exaggerated possibly through to that lens through that nd filter icon but overall
they're pretty much under well control they're not too excessive honestly
and that's kind of what you want to get with with an anamorphic lens many have like different
kind of kind of characters i'm overall happy with with this one uh amongst the ones i tried and the
and the adapters i've tried in the past let's get these people crossing the street here
that may have worked out
let's get a police car here
and there's always people wondering what the heck are you shooting what's going on
and honestly that was my first reaction as well many years ago when i was
just coincidentally witnessing it and now i'm a regular i'm shooting at 40 frames per second right
now so i can squeeze out most out of this moment because the sun is relentlessly moving on i wonder
if i can get a cool shot here coming through that alleyway it's pretty dark it smells like pee but
i wish there would be like a sun beam and whoever is walking through that it's getting
lit up but let's see if we can get anything out of this here we go
and the sunlight hits her a little bit nice okay that may have been a good show let's see
train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train
ah two lead okay we gotta wait for the next one always a beautiful picture when when you have
the train crossing the sun is rising and you shoot through the windows of the train
oh it's it's lining up with the streets so you know like it's like two times in the year it's a
margin in october where the sunrise and the sunset just like happens right like same same angle as
the street so everyone with a camera is out here shooting and like just witnessing it's beautiful
thank you i'll take a photograph yeah enjoy have a great day thank you
thank you okay i think i hear another train let's see if we can get some better shots there we go
lens flare
oh it's hitting it from the side like brutally but now it's a good it's a good study of the
colors of the lens flare see that's what i love about sunrises in the morning in chicago it's just
the sun is rising on on that side obviously in the in the east but then the light bounces back and
forth between the buildings so even the buildings are illuminated from the other side based on
the reflection and you have just this beautiful soft light coming out down down into the streets
like people as my subject let's get this guy trying to cross the street get him in focus and
let's go
i couldn't get it in focus fast enough but that's
the story of my life oh my god i'm gonna go on this side see the light bouncing between the
buildings and i think it really nicely illuminates the train but in front of a darker-ish background
so it should pop out so here we go again patience wait for the train to arrive
talking about focus i used to have i still have the anamorphot which is an adapter that you
screw in front of a taking lens but the problem is so the challenge the massive challenges
is that you have to both focus your taking lens as well as the anamorphot adapter so
having now a lens that you can just like focus on with one general focus wheel is is really nice
yet another feature of an anamorphic lens is the oval bokeh i actually i think it's really
beautiful it's a little bit more prevalent if you shoot at night but you can get an idea here about
the beauty of an oval bulky lens the nice thing really to shoot this on the commodore is that
it automatically de-squeezes so i'm in the 4x3 anamorphic mode which was added a
couple of updates ago and you see it on both the screen here as well as the internal monitor that
that it's already squeezed so you don't have to fiddle around with any monitor settings to
to interpret the the footage so makes focusing certainly a little bit easier all right here it
comes here it comes let's go let's go let's go has the lights on maybe we get even some lens flares
and here we go
i think that worked out
look at this okay i love these high the elevated train tracks if you nicely
line it up maybe we even get some flares in between let's see
i don't see any sun peeking through but
let's see
oh
ah
well
that wasn't planned but worked out well could always count on the firefighters here in chicago
now see it has to all work together you have to have the right camera settings you have to have
the camera in focus you have to have the gimbal in the right setting this is why it's so important
that you absolutely familiarize yourself with your gear and can operate blindly
and i have not operated that gimbal in a while so it's just slowly coming back to me
one of my favorite new routes here in chicago is the cobra one
of this jazz player not sure if you know cobra but he's that brazilian street artist
who works a lot with colors and shapes but like plotted on top of portraits usually
so the close focus distance of this lens is about point eight meters or two and a half feet
which is actually quite decent for an anamorphic lens honestly you see it here
as we're shooting these letters although it's not this fastest lens honestly
you get some nice depth of field uh you definitely want to have your subject relatively close but
with this close focus distance you can definitely get some what people may call cinematic images
hey how you doing yeah can i get a shot of you awesome it's a film camera so just dude
yeah just to just do what you want to do like i just i'm just testing out a new lens
what's your name alfonse it's beautiful i love that name
thank you fawns have a great day
all right let's get some some runners here
everybody's in a good mood here
i don't know if i can get a tracking shot here with the runners sideways
just gonna pre-focus here
just don't want to fall all right i'll join you now take care
thank you man
everybody loves the commodore and the suri anamorphic lens here apparently they're getting
all very excited all right so let me know what you think about this lens down in the comment section
below i may gonna do it more in-depth review also i'm curious how you like this kind of video i
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