So you mounted the 4/3 adapter to the base plate and can change lens and camera body as you want?
Neat idea ;-)
I still will make my own lens support as I also want a third rail on top of the lens/camera to stiffen the whole construction (it will also work as a handle) - but besides that, it will pretty much look like the lens clamp.
@Psyco Thanks for the props, always good to hear of folks' success with patching the GH1.
You might find my Four Thirds lens mount solution interesting. I fashioned a 15mm rail mount for a 4/3rds adapter out of a tripod collar made for a Canon telephoto lens. It should be rigid enough to support the Olympus 14-35mm f2:
I'm still working on that rig - its a big project.
Concept and design about 1 year (incl. 3D animation to be sure the concept works), manufacturing the parts 1,5 years up to now. Its all DIY cut from solid aluminium blocks. I learned how to work with metall, so I would say I'm halfe professional but with very cheap machines (so it takes for ever to get some parts down to a precission of better than 0.05mm, e.g. to fit ballbearings).
I'm also in the process to get the plans and some pictures ready for the internet - but even that will be in the future.
To mount the 14-35 is quite easy. I have not fully designed that part, so have no drawings for it but it can be done in about 4 hours form a raw block. I will post as soon as I have done it;-)
For now the only thing to show is a picture of the 3D model, as I don't take the real pieces home at the moment.
(Not much to see, as I removed the old mattebox and VX1000 model, as I have a new MB and camera now;-)
I'm a happy tech nerd with some good ideas to put on screen. So I starte with a VX1000 and tryed to get used to it. After some time I got some friends to help me try some shots. But it was very hard to get them to go in front of the camera and do something - they felt absolutely stupid, even as I told them it won't look stupid on screen later on. Then I started to get my software together and do something with that footage. I'm still lerning how to cut and grade.
Quite ok up to this point, but as I was never very satisfied with the IQ (especially using the VX1000 + anamorphic adapter to get 16:9), I wanted some HD 16:9 camera. The FX1 was to expensive.....and then I heard about the GH1 and the hack - I knew, thats exactly what I want.
So, I spend the last two years with buying and selling old MF lenses, reading about the hack and the best settings, buying more old glas, reading more,... ...I never got out to shoot anything but a testchart.
My brother kept on bitching at me, that I'm an idiot, as after 3 years I couldn't present a single shot that was telling a story. It took some time till I realised that he was right (I hate when he is right and I'm wrong;-)
So I had to choose between spending the rest of my freetime by reading hacksetings and buying old lenses or get some basic gear and start shooting. I will go with the second one...
...I got all my software and bought a Olympus 14-35 so that I will have one lens for everything (later I will add the Olympus 35-100 but thats it). I just copied LPowells very good hack settings and stoped developing my own. I stopped looking for anamorphic glas, just marked the 2,35:1 ratio on my screen and will cut it in post. I will finish my steadycam this summer and then go out and shoot, shoot and shoot even more.
I got me out of this hardware madness and for all of you still trapped in there: If you really want to put some story on screen - stop it and get your self shooting, no excuses!
I saw home made videos with a cheap camcorder that totally got me and I wanted to see more after the 10min were over. I also was bored to the bone while sitting in cinema and watching some 4k blockbuster with surround sound. If you have a story, go and shoot. If its really really good, you can do it again with better gear and still become famous and rich.
@Vitaliy Neat trick. I don't suppose there's a "Set number of horizontal guidelines = 2" in the firmware? Just asking! Would save money on marker pens.
2. cut it to fit your screen & stick the bad boy on.
3. use the custom guideline and put the horizontal to the very bottom of the screen... then press up 28 times... now draw your first permanent marker line.
4. now put it to the top and press down 28 times, draw your second line.
5. turn off the guideline function.
Now you can to work within the 2.35:1 lines knowing what will get cropped in post.
I tried ISO 1600. Noise was OK, but I prefer 1250 as max.
Always below 400? That's good. For me setting up proper lighting is not always an option.
Yes I tried in-camera audio recording with ext mic and a preamp. When there is enough background sound, it was ok. But recording voice in a quiet room.... not really. The same setup feeding to a laptop gave much cleaner sound.
I didn't buy any portable preamp/mixer/recorder like H4n though. Carrying around something like H4n would give me more room to test different cases without carrying entire camera rig. But... ummm... spending freeze... for now.