Take your smartphone filmmaking to a brand new stage with Beastgrip DOF Adapter MK3, the SLR/DSLR lens adapter for smartphones that makes use of EF-mount lenses suitable lenses.
We’ve not cared a lot about Kickstarter tasks right here at Pro Video Coalition as a result of a few of these tasks by no means make it to the promised purpose, however this one from Beastgrip is simply too good to not point out. With greater than 500 backers pledging $182,725 to assist convey this mission to life, the DOF Adapter MK3 is about to change into a actuality and, as Vadym Chalenko, the founding father of Beastgrip, mentioned on December 7, the corporate goals to ship the product in March 2024.
The new Beastgrip DOF Adapter MK3 builds on the success of its predecessors and is available in a brand new, fully redesigned kind. As smartphones change into extra highly effective and in a position to compete, at sure ranges, with bigger cameras, it’s fascinating to have the ability to pair them with lenses used on these cameras. That’s what the DOF Adapter MK3 does, and in doing so it permits to take smartphone pictures and video to a complete new stage, because the optical methods in smartphones are a limiting issue to discover the ability of the sensors.
Beastgrip began 4 years in the past, with a purpose: to create highly effective cellular pictures and film-making gear that can help you flip any smartphone into an expert digicam rig. Vadym Chalenko says that it began “with just an idea and a 3D printer and with the amazing support of Kickstarter we’ve brought a full range of professional gear to life and have been a part of some of the most groundbreaking videos ever shot with a smartphone.”
Adapter is predicated on a Canon EF mount
Now the corporate introduces the DOF Adapter MK3, “to elevate your smartphone filmmaking to new heights by utilizing SLR/DSLR lenses and create breathtaking cinematic footage with a beautiful shallow depth of field. Capture the essence of vintage film aesthetics and enter a realm of endless creative possibilities.”
One instance of the usage of the brand new Beastgrip DOF Adapter MK3 is the quick movie ‘Epic Worlds’ starring Emma Myers and directed by Zee Ntuli, fully captured with the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra.
If you’re into smartphone filming and have EF mount suitable lenses that you simply wish to use, then the Beastgrip DOF Adapter MK3 is the instrument for you. The adapter is predicated on a Canon EF mount, and it’s suitable with many full-frame lenses. Utilizing a full-frame focusing display gives optimum efficiency and compatibility throughout a variety of lenses. Using crop sensor lenses with the DOF Adapter MK3 is just not advisable, as this may end in extreme vignetting. Lenses for mirrorless cameras cannot be used, on account of their quick flange, so if you happen to’ve offered all of your previous lenses to maneuver to mirrorless… you’re out of luck.
Although the adapter makes use of the Canon EF mount, you’re not restricted to Canon lenses as there may be, in actual fact, a various choice of lenses from totally different manufacturers that use the identical mount. Beastgrip provides that different lenses can be utilized, so long as there may be an adapter ring o use them with the EF mount, and “these include Nikon F-mount, PL-mount, Pentax K-mount, M42, and Olympus OM-mount”
Vintage lenses are an amazing possibility
Manual focus management and open aperture are essential features of the DOF Adapter MK3. As the DOF Adapter MK3 operates purely mechanically, your lens will need to have a handbook mechanical focus management. Lenses such because the Canon STM sequence, which depend on digital connections to the digicam physique for focusing, are NOT suitable with the DOF Adapter MK3. Lenses that supply handbook aperture management should be set to their widest aperture to realize the shallowest depth of discipline. Canon EF lenses, which lack a handbook aperture management ring, typically have their aperture vast open by default and are additionally suitable with the DOF Adapter MK2.
Lenses with roughly 30 to 100 mm in focal lengths are one of the best to make use of with the adapter. A last piece of recommendation from Beastgrip for these keen to do this: quick SLR/DSLR lenses with aperture values starting from f/1.2 to f/2.8 are advisable for optimum outcomes. Generally, the sooner the lens, the higher the efficiency you’ll be able to anticipate from the DOF Adapter MK3.
Vintage lenses are an amazing possibility for the DOF Adapter MK3, as they’re extra inexpensive and every has its personal distinctive character. Although filming is the important thing motive to make use of the Beastgrip DOF Adapter MK3, pictures can also be a motive to strive the adapter, because it permits you to use totally different lenses along with your smartphone. Your creativeness is the one limitation right here.
The Beastgrip DOF Adapter MK3 has a advised retail worth of $299.99 however Kickstarter backers might get it for $209 till the marketing campaign closed, on December 7. There had been additionally different choices, which included the DOF Adapter MK3, Camera Rig, both the Beastgrip Pro common rig or Beastcage for iPhone (obtainable for iPhone 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max, 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max, 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max) and lenses at one of the best worth ever in several configurations.
