Kyle.

I haven't viewed any motion footage, only the jpgs at top of this discussion.

I posted an addition just now which failed. In it I mentioned that Quyen had also mentioned that positioning of the relay lens/macro/close-up lens, whichever one calls it, closer or furthur away from the camcorder lens can have an effect on distortion.

I found similar with an earlier version of my own device and a telescope eyepiece lens set (SW5042). This was a very powerful magnifier and sat just 12mm - 18mm off the gg. It could be set up to frame 18mm (night-vision tube) or a wider 24mm motion picture sized image - just.

Positioning closer or furthur from the camcorder (PD150) would cause either barrel or pincushion distortion, but there was a sweet spot, where a test pattern of squares drawn on a piece of paper would remain square, not looking like a globe of the world or stretched off at the corners.

The FX1 digs a little deeper into the edges of the relay lens. You may have to trade off a little overall resolution by zooming closer in if you can on the groundglass to stay more in the centre of the relay lens.

This lens set was fine on a PD150 but does not work as well on the FX1. I now use a Century Optics +7 on the PD150 which is fine but sits the camera off the groundglass a lot furthur (120mm versus 12mm). Although it is a 58mm filter mount lens it works fine on the 72mm mount FX1 with an adaptor.

A small plea - thank you.
 

Kyle - you bought this kit - good. You've invested time and money in it. PLUS you have spent time putting it up here - so please, can you stick the camera on a tripod - and slow down with the pans?

You have gone to a lot of effort, effort I'd quite like to recognise - I'd really like to enjoy and note the quality.

Grazie