I don't shoot my 6500 very often, but yesterday I was hoping to catch some steam off the lakes in a park during a spring snowfall, failed miserably, but saw this...
Any samples/experience from the new 18-135? That would be greatly appreciated ! I'm think about this lens for my A600 and use this combo when I don't really want to carry my big/heavy combo A7RIII/24-70GM.
I recently bought an anamorphic projector lens with the aim of using it while lightpainting to give (perhaps) a more cinema feel to some of my captures. I got the adapter for it and took it out last night just to try it at night (no lightpainting) and see what I could get (if anything). Anamorphic taking lenses are pretty expensive, so by adding a projector lens in front of a normal/long lens (they really only work with short teles) is a poor man's way out and I was hoping to get something interesting. Phil Holland started a thread many years ago and I looked it up recently. https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/784709/0&year=2009#7206977
The lens I bought is an Isco Cinemascope Ultra Star and I'm using it on a Sony 6300 through a VC 50mm 1.5 Aspheric Nockton. There's a little vignetting but nothing I'm worried about. I think this is a combo (for me) to take dark/night/lightpainted images only which can stand a little vignetting. I have not yet found a tele that I can use on FF without a bit too much vignetting. It should cover FF though so I'll keep looking.
Although it's a 2x lens I only unsqueezed the images by 1.8. The objects in them seemed to have a more natural ratio to them (seemed a little elongated with a 2x unsqueeze) but I could be wrong and will have to do some tests to check what is right for this lens combo. The Nockton is a nice sharp lens but needed to be stopped down to F4 to get good and sharp in the middle and I have to accept that this is not going to give me sharp corners in any cases. At home I had checked the Isco on an OM 50/1.2 as well. It had slightly flatter field but not as much contrast or as sharp even when stopped down a little. The version of the Nockton I have is for a Nikon-S body so I've got a few adapters stacked to get it working
So here are a few images. Some of the "real" anomorphic lenses contribute a blue hue to the highlights I believe, so I made a couple of versions with split toned highlights.
Below the images is a link to a Google Photo gallery that has some 3600 pixel wide versions if you want to look closer. They fill a 4k screen pretty well. This lens combo is NOT for the pixelbators though (including me normally)
All a work in progress ...
