Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens has created a mounting system that allows him to insert his Canon EOS R into the backend of a large format movie projector lens — a rig he used to shoot a series of skater portraits in Santa Monica.
The lens was in Morgan’s storage unit for a while and says he’d always wanted to convert it to shoot stills with a modern camera. So, he built a wooden construction that allows the camera to slot into the rear of the lens and shift backwards and forwards to focus.
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He says the lens is an IMAX projector lens made by Iwerks Entertainment, a company that created, and still creates, similar large scale visual effects for theme parks and experiences that rival IMAX.
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The lens would have originally been used to project large format film such as 15 perf/70mm that uses an image area 10x larger than the standard 35mm format. The Iwerks system, like the IMAX system, is designed to create massive images with extremely detailed, life-like, resolution.
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Morgan admits his wooden set-up is ‘very, very gorilla,’ but with some tape to cover the slightly open marriage between the camera and rear of the lens he has managed to keep it light-tight. He isn’t sure the mount keeps the lens square to the camera’s sensor, but likes the tilt effect that emphasises the shallow depth-of-field effect in the pictures.
To read more about how he did it see Morgan’s The Slanted Lens website.
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