Lovin' my Letus
 

I'm a new owner of a standard non-flip Letus and must admit I'm very impressed. I got a chance to use it this weekend under a wide variety of outdoor conditions.

Here's a DV still using the mid-range of a cheap Vivitar zoom on a DVX100a in letterbox mode, 24pA.
conditions: heavy overcast, 35mm zoom lense wide @ 4.5 (yikes !)

No CC
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/janNoCC.mov

With CC
http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data/551/janLS.mov

This a short clip but large clip showing the DOF of a 35mm lense that is not wide open but still shows a range of the DOF. Not everything is video tack sharp. But the plane of focus is apparent and not too shallow.

http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data...QTfromAvid.mov

It is a huge 69mb file @ native DV compression using a Tokina 28-200.
Conditions: sunny but under a pavillion, mid range on the zoom @ an f8-f11 split. In this situation, the adapter definitely flattens out the DVX's already factory flat settings.

I have still yet to experiment with boosting sharpening or saturation on the DVX while using the Letus.

I just got the Tokina from adorama for less than $50 to replace the slower and more telephoto vivitar, and use my mint Nikon 50mm 1.4 for portraits and interviews. I like the wideness of the the 28mm Tokina but the MOD is 10 feet ! But, even the lesser glass still looks decent/good especially when shooting in the mids of their apertures.

If anyone's interested, I can post clips/stills of the letus with the better Nikon glass under a tungsten lit interview setting and different outdoor conditions with the zoom. Any recommendations for compression for proof/viewing purposes? The clip is from an export from Avid using the ntscDV codec. The stills are apparently being recompressed upon export through AE.

Here's is the same clip compressed via H.264

about 31 mb

http://www.stickypod.com/videos/data...ftkidsh264.mov

Just a suggestion.. don't use extreme color correction so much that it doesn't look realistic.
just my 2 cents.

btw, glad you got your letus!

I was gonna say that as well.

Realistic? Because all movies are realistic. Relax people, it's just someone having fun with their letus and color correction. It's a bit like trying on shoes.

it's not like i meant in to be mean.

No offense taken folks, really ! -- thanks for the comments -- and yes it's just me having fun experimenting with Magic Bullet, A/B 'ing, and seeing what I can do with a naked Letus image.

Anyway, right now I'm concerned with the codec that I'm using to export from AE back into Avid -- (see my post in the editing for PC, I wouldn't want to cross post).