Ciao guys and welcome back, it's your friend Luca and to this video I'm gonna talk about how I filmed that short portrait video that I shared a few weeks ago called The Dumb. In reality that day I filmed a couple of BTS with my smartphone but sadly my smartphone died so it's gonna be more a breakdown of what I used talking about gear. I'm gonna talk about the accessories that I used to make that video possible but also about my Anamorphic setup and I know many of you are interested about this Anamorphic setup. It is a pretty minimalist. So let's first talk about the destabilization. I showed that video for about 80% of the time handled just with a simple camera strap, a thick one from Pic Design. It does a pretty good job to stabilize a navy camera like the S1 with Anamorphic setup but I've also used my little gimbal, the Ronin RS-C2 and it is a pretty strong gimbal. The Anamorphic setup is a really lightweight, it's less than 2 kg so this gimbal can do a really good job to stabilize the footage and as you can see I have a dual handle because having the Anamorphic setup you won't avoid as much as possible this little swing that you can have when you hold the gimbal just in this way so with the really tight body. So if you use the gimbal with a dual handle you're gonna have a more stable footage because you're not gonna have that little swing motion and considering that I was filming in 6K full frame 3x2 with the Lumix S1 the rolling shutter is pretty high even with the spherical lenses but when you use Anamorphic lenses the rolling shutter is even more visible so it is really important to have extremely stable footage that's why I use this gimbal to stabilize some of the tracking shots I filmed. As you can see this gimbal has a very nice quick release system so for example this is the plate I use with the spherical lenses with focus motor I just slide the plate on the gimbal and I'm ready to go. For spherical lenses I have like the MAMFROTO plate so I can quickly attach and remove the camera in an extremely fast way but for the Anamorphic setup I cannot really make the system so high because the gimbal cannot handle that big heavy setup with the center of gravity a little bit higher than normal so for the Anamorphic setup I use another plate I'm gonna show you pretty soon because first I want to talk about the light used for that video. As you have probably noticed I like to have more natural look in my videos I don't really like to have those cinematic and real looking images so I tend to bounce and modify that big and nice free light that is available every day to all of us that it's called Sun and sometimes it's not possible to modify much that big source of light because for example even in other lens it's pretty often cloudy and because I like to have eye contrast in the videos that I film in that portrait video I just used one small and portable tube light because with those type of lights I work extremely fast and in this case I've used this little wheel light K21 it is really portable light weight it has a really nice output of light most of the time I just use at 5% or even 1% so I simply use this light for the indoor scene where the model Alina was sitting on the chair I was also using a prop I was using a lamp that was in that apartment and I was sort of softening a little bit the shades on the face of the model with this little light on a little light stand so I found these lights extremely usable and convenient because I also like to use props on the location where I film now talking about the anamorphic setup the anamorphic lens is the isco the isco ultra star I have a simply glue at 72 to 77 step up ring so this is not a permanent solution if I want I can easily remove it but because I only use a small and light weight circular ND filters this is not a problem this can easily handle that weight of the circular ND filter now talking about the rear mount I simply use a clamp made by rough camera I don't know if this is the best one or if there are a better solution that what I have this is what my friends suggested to buy so that's what I bought for this model of isco ultra star I'm not an expert it's just an ultra star gold and I assume there are also bigger versions of these lens because in reality I ordered the front ring from rough camera but I bought one that was way too big so I didn't want to be cheap I wanted to have like an actual proper mounting option for my filters but I made a mistake when I ordered that adapter so I found this as a temporary solution eventually I will buy the proper ring adapter for the front filter thread so on the back I have the 52.5 millimeter diameter clamp and this is extremely simple system you pretty much attach it to your anamorphic scope so this is the clamp as I take in lens as you know I used the mayor optic uglorlic spring opal on 75 millimeter f 1.9 with a step up ring 52 to 55 because the filter thread here is 55 millimeter because I was planning to use these lens mostly with the like R90 millimeter F2 but that lens has a little bit of longitudinal chromatic aberrations I don't really love that so this one is much better lens because it doesn't suffer from those type of chromatic aberration so the bokeh is always nice and clean and as you can see here on the bottom of this plate I have a little lens support because it is important to have a lens support for your taking lens otherwise you're gonna destroy the elicoid of the lens and I look not that safe and not that stable but for me it works extremely well and when I see that this focus ring is extremely smooth like there is nothing putting pressure on the elicoid I know that I'm gonna be good to go without damaging the taking lens so don't use anamorphic scopes like this without support because you're gonna destroy your taking lens I did it for some time with my Canon FD 50 millimeter f 1.8 it's still alive but sometimes I hear some weird clicking crack as you can see here I have this nice plate with a DJI running RSC and RS2 compatible plate by small rig I can simply slide the camera in position on the gimbal just have to be sure to take a note about the right position to balance the gimbal and I'm ready to go and this way I'm gonna have a pretty stable anamorphic setup that is only I think 3 kilograms in total not even 3 kilograms so it's extremely lightweight and portable and I don't use external monitor because the screen the rear screen of the S1 is pretty big and I acquired critical focus with this system and I tend to keep the same distance between me and the talent now talking about the dual focus system I much prefer to work with a double focus system instead of having a variable dieopter because a variable dieopters are extremely heavy they have around 500 to 700 grams and when you start to add those grams in front of these lens you will have to use a proper rod system to support the wall system and then you will have to have a stronger gimbal and overall heavier and bigger rig so I prefer to work with this I'm extremely fine with a double focus system because I have a focus marker on the isco and I have placed some marks around the focus scale so 1.5, 2 meters, 3 meters and 6 meters I always also add marks on the taking lens for example I know that if the primo plan is set at 2 meters I have to set this ultra star at 1.5 meter here and then I lock this and then I know that the subject is going to be in focus if I have the right distance between me and the subject is extremely simple takes time to get used but I really love the setup is small lightweight and it provides amazing images as you probably so so I hope you enjoyed this video I hope this video was helpful and informative I will probably do follow up in case you have extra questions that you can write down in the comments area below but for today this is it thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one ciao