"Apefoscope Anamorphic Adapter - First Assembled Unit" (including the original hand made draw) sold on ebay for 360 usd, 10 days auction, start price 360 usd, one single bid at about one minute to the end of auction, can't say who bought, it was a private listing. Lenses inside the unit is the same used to do the night shots with flares in the first two videos uploaded to Vimeo. A collectible unit. Thank you all.

I like The Smiths.

Do you mind if I ask what software it was that you found to do optical modeling?

Everything is working as expected. I got the coated lenses from the coating service today. Talking to them I found they have another option, it is the same color of multicoated but I think it deserves a try, maybe it has another intensity, so Monday I will take a set of lenses to do this option I found. There is a photo showing the coated lenses inside the protective box in this post, please hold on the curiosity, I will show all the differences and features in the new video.

I will get the new bodies in Monday from the plastic service and will show a photo.

Thanks again for the donations. You are making it happens!

Edit post: The back pain is under control, I got a doctor meeting and he prescribed me an injection and some pills. Not fully healed yet but I can work.

I already have my inlaws staying at the house so I've got no room to kidnap you.

Not even the name of the software?

As I promised here they are, the new black plastic bodies:

I just need a few days to finish rearranging the office/workshop. I started last week but I could not go on last days due to the back pain. Now I am feeling better and after all tools are in correct place I will assemble the adapters with the coated lenses and shoot the new video.

What I can say for now is: I looked through the new coated lenses and I liked what I saw!

@apefos, I hope you have completely recovered.

Did the coating improve the flare quality or reduce internal reflections? Please give us some teaser.

As for the manufacturing secrets... I hope you didn't sell your first unit to China ;)

Today it was 6 hours work until now plus 1 hour for lunch and rest.

I realized if I keep rearranging the office/workshop until the end it will take long time. So I decided to mix the tasks. I finished the project in how will be the final design to the workshop and clean, reinstall, recalibrate the drill machine. Separate just the tools needed to assemble the adapters.

Today I will start assembling 6 adapters with coated and uncoated lenses. It is a careful job. I think I can finish within 2 or 4 days. I need to feel how long I can work each day without get into stress again.

Tomorrow I have a meeting in the optical lab to get more lenses and also to see the three new grinding machines they got. Also get somethings to use in the office rearranging, screws, wood, plugs, wires...

Today was a outside working day. Got new lenses from the optical lab. Bus and walk here and there to get things to rearrange the office/workshop. Now I got everything I need, just inexpensive things like screws, wires, plugs, pieces of wood... I can keep myself inside work.

I am using the Indiegogo money and the money from first unit selling to build more units, lenses and bodies. Indiegogo project let me get the money just after the donation so I can use it to build units to people who donates there, so I will have some units for the donors from PV and some units for donors from Indiegogo. And after the first sales, a new batch of lenses and bodies will be made, and so on...

From tomorrow I will concentrate in assembling the units with coated lenses and just after it I will shoot / edit / upload videos showing coating test comparisons.

The office/workshop rearranging will restart just after it.

I felt sad when DSLR revolution decreased 35mm adapter sales, now I feel happy working with adapters again! Thanks!

I love you dedication to this sir!

@vicharris thank you! probably you are my most constant follower.

@silvertonesx24 did you mean uncoated x coated?

lens coating was developed to avoid unwanted reflections in optical system. When a light ray reaches a transparent surface, some amount pass trough and some amount are reflected. In a photographic objective with many glass elements this would make the system completely unusable due to lots of reflections, so the lens coating was developed to avoid reflections and solve this. The Apefoscope does not have many glass elements, so the uncoated version is usable and it has an unique feature, keep reading to understand:

In a spherical system the light spreads in all directions and the reflections get a circular shape. In a cylindrical system the light spreads in just one direction and this forms a line, this is the behavior of reflections in an anamorphic adapter. Sometimes an issue turns into a good feature. In cinema this is common. 24p strobes but people consider this the film look. Anamorphic reflections gets a horizontal line shape and people consider this the film look also.

So the goal in the lens coating for an anamorphic system is to smooth the reflections without delete them completely, to make them less annoying, but keep some amount for the film look.

The lens coating does not change the color of the light which pass trough it, but it can change the color of the reflections due to the colors of chemical elements used to build the coating material. So the lens flares probably will get a specific color. One of the most interesting features of the uncoated Apefoscope is it keeps the reflections with the same color of the source light, so you can get horizontal flares with different colors, for example, a police car can allow red or blue flares depending on the color of the light pulsing on the car. you can see this in the two Apefoscope videos on vimeo that was done with an uncoated version. Also the Apefoscope does not have many glass elements wich would make the uncoated system unusable, it works good.

Improve light transmission was a goal, but avoid unwanted reflections was a goal also, Both was a main goal and work together, when you avoid the reflection more light will pass through, when you increase the light pass through it will decrease the reflection... they are inverse proportional. Increase the light transmission is important to make fast lenses, avoid reflection is important to make the lens usable. (in the Apefoscope case, the uncoated version is usable because it has few lens elements, so it will not decrease the light transmission significantly and the flares will be pronounced, but usable and with the feature of keep same light source color in the flare.)

about the "bullshit" you said quoting the reflections colors, I will let the next video answer it. An image is better than one thousand words.

Now it is 7:30 am here and I will go to the office/workshop to continue the assembling job. It is time to work more than talk!

Time to lunch now. Assembling is working in progress.

@Meierhans I did not understand the comparison with used cars.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev In the old 35mm adapter times, there was lots of people trying to build adapters, so I developed mine and I found when people started to scold, threaten, disagree, they were trying to make me say things I was keeping for myself. Or maybe run away with me due to competition. In that time I was banned from one forum site and some time after I found the brother of the site owner was a 35mm adapter manufacturer also.

I am thinking about to do 4 videos: candle light, spot light with different source colors, street shoots, and the adapter review (fstop test, chromatic aberration test, center and corner sharpness test, build quality). Depending on the results of these videos maybe I can consider the project successful. So it seems the moment to completely stop posting in this topic is arriving for me...

@Vitaliy_Kiselev no problem!

Oh God, it is raining ice stones here! The day Apefoscope Final Units are getting ready the sky Gods and dead scientists got angry! Galilean, calm down!... I am your grandson!... (hey man, stop screaming towards the sky!)

Just waiting lens cement to dry!