The new Media Division Epic Episode focuses on building an impossible lens with the Super35 equivalent of 29mm f/0.3. To achieve it, Nikolas used a Leitz Hektor 300mm f/2.8 lens and built an 8×10 large format DoF-adapter camera with a projection plane and focusing system and filmed an underwater short movie with it. There are YouTubers that don’t publish videos often, but when they do, you can be sure they are of high-quality content. One of these YouTubers is Nikolas Moldenhauer from the Media Division. We already reported on some of his videos including experiments with fast vintage lenses, and his anamorphic episodes. Now, after more than a year of work, Media Division drops another Epic Episode. Almost three years ago, Nikolas explored the world of ultra-fast lenses in the Media Division Epic Episode 13. He showed us experiments with ultrafast lenses below f/1 – legends, budget options, modding and testing – including a modded X-Ray lens Zeiss R-Biotar 100mm f/0.73. That episode, however, still used a conventional method of capturing the lens image circle directly by a camera’s sensor. Building an impossible f/0.3 lens – Media Division This time, Nikolas aimed to go even further and as he puts it, “you can’t break the laws of physics, but you can go around them.” In this spirit, he set out on a journey to build the impossible lens – a 29mm f/0.3 (Super35 equivalent). Impossible, because for an f/0.3 to exist, there has to be a workaround, but we’ll get into...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 20 January, 2023