MY CANON DREAM SET | Years of hard work coming to fruition, starting with the Canon 7 50mm Dream and now evolving to multiple set of rehoused vintage lenses, the journey is just beginning.
When I first started to collecting vintage lenses, I could only afford Pentax, Minolta, Takumar lenses, but I fell in love. The āvintageā look is not a special formula that only belongs to most expensive cinema lenses - itās the formula one can create by allowing a lensā ādefectsā to define your image. Nowadays modern image making looks for the flawless, pristine, almost artificial look, but most of the images we grew up with come from imperfect, gritty and worn pieces of glass.
For that reason I started a business in order to bring vintage glass to the New York market that was hard to come by. Proud to say that years later, weāve been able to surpass expectations and bring together a collection of vintage lenses that will stand the test of time. One of these sets is the newly rehoused Canon Rangefinders aka Canon Dream Set.
Back in September, after years of collecting - we were able to put together around 40 different variations of 1960s Canon LTM Rangefinder lenses. Not all of them were easy to come by and I wanted to find a way to show off all their characteristics in one single shot. Therefore, at
@greenwoodstudiosnyc the
@greenwoodcine team built two scenes - high-key vs contrasty - and laid out multiple lighting sources (spotlight, fresnel, LED Panel, LED tube) to flare our glass during the shot. We then placed the lenses on a 4 foot slider with motion control movement and focus to travel through each look.
The result of this Canon Dream test allowed us to test sharpness, direct flare, breathing, focus falloff, bokeh, veiling, color temperature, female v male skin tone, low v high contrast all in ONE SHOT. Our only caveat was testing these Dream lenses in their original housings - which made it unnecessarily difficult to travel through focus planes. Safe to say weāll be waiting for the rehoused lenses to be completed before the next one.
Full video / specs can be found on the
@greenwoodcine IG page!
