Adding a Zeiss NETTAR 1949 to a Canon EOS 5D Mark II 60 years later
Every now and then, we stumble upon someone ‘hacking’ a lens (see 102 year old lens stills and a video) and this one looks pretty cool on top of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II – not often you see a bellows on a modern HDSLR! Hack by Alex12Ga on flickr Zeiss NETTAR 1949 –...
Oups moment about the Baby Primes…
Just got this email from a Zeiss rep. I guess that I have to repost the whole email if I dont want some bad guys knocking on my door tonight. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to address a report that has been released by the company Kelvinkamera+ on June 5th regarding Carl Zeiss...
Zeiss quality on the cheap: Baby Primes!
Just receive this press release from kelvinkamera.com about their new product. My career of digital cinematographer started long time ago (1983) and my first ambition was to have serious and creative optics on my analog video cameras. I convert so many lens to work with Betacam’s SP in tha way I was working before with...
Hurlblog Interview I: Dr. Scherle Shares the History of Zeiss and Sheds Light on the Future
Hurlbut Visuals is excited to introduce the Hurlbut Visuals Blog Interview Series.
Lens Taken From Vintage Camera Used on Canon 5D, Makes Beautiful Photos
Reddit user Brycerrr recently broke an old Zeiss Ikon Contina L he purchased for $7 from Goodwill after it took a nasty tumble down some stairs. After being bummed for a while, he stumbled upon Timur Civan’s experiment with sticking a 102-year old lens on a modern DSLR, and decided to attempt the same thing....
Carl Zeiss at NAB 2011 – podcast #39
podcast #39 Zeiss at NAB 2011 – our friend Richard Schleuning from Carl Zeiss gives a quick run down of the new DLSR lenses and the new cinema kit for HDSLRs. (Yes, I’m still trying to get our podcasts from NAB out – sorry!). After turning off the camera, Richard told me a bit of...
Awe Inspiring Iceland – a Canon DSLR video by Enrique Pacheco
A few months ago we featured a video from Iceland on our planet5D cinema site called “Winter in Hell” by Enrique Pacheco and he’s produced another awe inspiring DSLR video called “Raw Lightscapes” that we thought you’d love to see. He shot it on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) “with Zeiss, Nikon and...
planet5D live interview with DitoGear’s Patryk Kizny and a DryEyes giveaway!
Tweet DitoGear’s Patryk Kizny (who brought you “the Chapel” with the BTS we showed you) will be our next planet5D live interview on Wednesday February 23rd – at 8pm CET (that’s great for you folks in Europe!) so make sure you are there! In fact, here’s the .ics file that you can download and put...
DitoGear™ Introduces DryEye Lite System to stop lens condensation
Tweet Having trouble with condensation on your lenses? DitoGear (a planet5D sponsor) has this news about their new DryEye Lite System to keep the condensation off of your lenses while working outdoors. Here’s the PR: DitoGear™ is proud to introduce the DitoGear™ DryEye Lite System. DitoGear™DryEye Lite has been designed to prevent dew condensation or...
Zeiss Enters The Micro 4/3rds World
Today Olympus made public that Carl Zeiss is working on their own set of Micro 4/3rds lenses. News right now is fairly sparse but another prestigious German glass maker is joining the M4/3rds world. Originally seen on CNET.
Rich Schleuning from Carl Zeiss – planet5D at PhotoCine EXPO 2010
Tweet Our friends from Carl Zeiss were at the photoCine Expo last week and we stopped in to have a little chat with Richard Schleuning while we were there. I also got to put a couple of their lenses on my Canon EOS 5D Mark II but I have to say, that it was not...
