Thanks, I'll look into those adapters.
Does your friend photographer have a site?? I'd love to see her work. I work with some art directors who work with Bergdorfs, but I have not gotten into their catalog yet. Two of my friends have though, Christopher Griffith and Bharat Sikka.
Cheers.
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I own both the Letus and the Redrock and used the P+S technique. They all work, the Redrock is larger but is much more difficult to set up align and use, plus it flips the image so you either need to add a good hdv lcd and mount it upside down, or use a camera that will allow you to flip the image in the camera.
The Letus on the other hand is easier to use and doesn't loose as much light as the redrock. Actually much, much easier to set up and use.
The downside of of the adapters is they all soften the image somewhat because you are focusing on a moving ground glass. They also loose some light and hdv prosumer cameras don't do high iso that well when you bump the gain, especially in low key lighting. You will see a snowstorm of noise and it can be corrected in post but those corrections can be expensive, or time consuming.
Unless you need to throw the background out of foucs it's best to just use the available lenses.
If your video is only going to web play, then stay with standard def as the standard def cameras do higher iso much better.
This was shot hdv codec on a Canon with the Letus with inserted stills from the P21+ and you can see the difference in sharpness and detail.
It's not a deal breaker, but these adapters are just an intermediate step compared to something like the Red.
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This was shot hdv with and without the redrock
http://www.russellrutherford.com/video/source/sanya.htmand this was hot standa def with a long damn lens.
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