And MicroX2 filp accessory.

For those of you that don’t know, the Redrock Micro is one of many 35mm adapters that allows you to utilize 35mm still camera lenses to work with your video camera. The advantage is you have a lot of room to play with depth of field.

I decided to try shooting test charts to judge the sharpness of this set up. This is the first time I’ve shot test charts and I didn’t have a lot of space to work with but here are my results. If there’s something I should be doing with the tests – let me know.

The control:
Ex1 stock lens (no adapter)

ex1-stock

Now a couple lenses I tried out:

35-70mm-zoom

25mm

55mm-prime

105mm
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the setup. The Encore version of the adapter is much more sensitive to light – making shooting indoors a much more feasible option now. Edge to edge sharpness is better though not perfect and that may be caused by a huge number of things (misalignment, poor lenses) and it’s a huge improvement to what I had before this upgrade.

Most importantly, the image is now right side up… that makes life a lot easier.

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