Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/214292200

I had a full scale review of the Aivascope planned. And then this happened:

It was the middle of my shoot day. I was taking off the Magfilter when it slipped out of my hand. Only fell 10 cm or so, but flipped on the way down.

Right now it’s on it’s way back to Lithuania to be repaired.  I will continue my tests when it returns.

As for the video above, I wasn’t planning to make a video with those shots. But I had to put together something while I wait. It’s not the best, but I’m happy with what I got.

First, a few quick things about using the Aivascope and Focuser 8:

• The Focuser 8 is CLEAN. I sold my Elmoscope-II rig mostly because I never grew to love the SLR Magic Rangefinder and it’s random blue at all the wrong moments. I hope to try it out on other lenses when my adapters arrive.
• The Aivascope is very difficult to use on anything that isn’t wide or small sensor by itself. I have the focus-through version. However, it shines with the set of vintage Nikon 52mm diopters I got for it. Diopters make it very usable, but the Focuser 8 is what makes it awesome.
• The Aivascope works on the Sony RX100 IV. I need to make a stable rig to utilize this better. I don’t want to have another drop.
• The Aivascope works on the iPhone 7 Plus with the zoom lens. Even in 4:3 mode using Mavis. Will shoot with this soon.
• The Aivascope has pretty bad anamorphic mumps when using the wider end of it’s ability. This can be fixed with the AMC plugin from Tito Ferradans and Lucas Pfaff.

As for the video, I shot it on the Panasonic G7 at 1080p 60fps, with the exception of the first and last shots, which were shot on the Sony RX100 IV at 120 fps.

The first half of the video was shot using the Sgma 30mm 2.8 Art on a Beholder DS1. I still didn’t have the kinks of my custom PID settings worked out, so I did use Warp Stabilizer to smooth out a few bumps. Overall it worked. Once I get the combo right (and a camera with IBIS) it should be super smooth. The second half was shot on a monopod and with the Panasonic Leica 42.5mm 1.2. Because of the size, anything below f/2.0 doesn’t register a change. (It gets kinda dreamy below 2.8 anyway)

If I still had the lens I would have shot a grid to get the right AMC settings. Had to eyeball it for this video.

More to come! Let’s hope it returns soon.