Lens Adapter Reviews for My Canon 7D
I recently sold my Canon XH-A1 and purchased a Canon 7D with the money (as well as several lenses, and accessories). While looking into Canon lenses I realized I didn't have nearly enough money to purchase nice Canon primes. A friend of mine has been purchasing Pentax lenses for his Canon 1D and recommended them to me.
So i went out on a search, I found a Pentax 30mm lens that can open up to a 2.0. It basically comes to a 50mm lens with the cropped sensor. I also purchased a 135mm 3.5 (because it was extremely cheap), and I had an Olympus 50mm 1.8 lens laying around.
So my adventure with finding lens adapters started. I decided to order several of them from random eBay dealers and see which ones worked the best. It would seem like they all would be exactly the same (all they do is let you put a lens on the camera), but it turned out they were a lot different.
Price: $6.99
Type: M42 Mount Lens to Canon EOS
Hi-Etech
The first adapter I ordered was thecheapest one I could find. It was $6.99 with free shipping. The adapter was shipped extremely fast and I received it in the mail within a couple of days. The adapter itself was a nice heavy metal. Out of the 5 lens adapters I ordered this was the only one that would not lock into place on my camera.
16mm Film Production
I just finished shooting in 16mm Film Production class. I had Co-Wrote and Co-Directed the film Lazy Accident. We had two months of preproduction before shooting the short film. Our team designed, built, painted, dressed, and lit the sets. We had a three-day shoot (after pre-light and blocking days).
I start my avid editing class this month and hope to have an edit finished by the end of this month and uploaded to the site, until then check out the behind the scenes photos.
www.cheezyfilms.com/photogalleries/16mm/
Lazy Accident from michael robertson on Vimeo.
Mike R.
Advanced Lighting
For Advanced Lighting, I mentioned to my friend Aaron (who has a passion for boy bands), that we should make a boy band music video. As soon as he heard this it was on, so Justin started on the creation of the music and Aaron went to work coming up with ideas.
For this video Aaron Directed, Justin did Art Direction, Andy rapped, and I was the DoP. As simple of a video it was, it was actually one of the hardest projects I've worked on at Full Sail. helping create the music, learning the choreography for the dance, coming up with lighting plots, helping get the actual lights setup (at one point we had setup nearly 50 lights), and finally performed in the video... It was a three day shoot (4 hours a day/night). By the end of it I was exhausted to say the least.
Overall it was a really fun shoot, everyone hauled it, to get some of the larger setups finished in the 4 hours.
I also have a gallery for this project which has some behind the scene photos.
www.cheezyfilms.com/photogalleries/maynestreet/
or you can skip that gallery and check out the final product:
Check it out in HD on youtube.com
Mike R.