So, what do you get when you take a $75 Chinese super budget lens with known flaws that only covers an APS-c sensor and shoot it full frame, then add a budget (no name ebay buy) “dirty” blue streak filter, that when compared to a Moment blue cine streak is about twice as “responsive”.
I have to confess to leaving the camera on 3200k from a previous job, which was just a silly mistake and only really possible thanks to my expectation of some odd behaviour, but after some light grading, this is about as bad/good as it gets.
This behaviour is however quite interesting. Massive blue haze-flaring/CA, but again 3200k in daylight, lovely star and streak at f5.6, some funky fall-off and very sharp in the middle. Even with a cheap filter on and the wind shifting the trees, there was no frame that was completely lost to blown out flare.
No streaks because no point light source, but some pretty cool Bokeh stuff going on.
Letterboxing to follow the shape (I had no guide lines activated), this is wide open and again 3200k adjusted. The vignette is a bonus for this look.
It is not a true anamorphic (obviously), but to be honest if I had one, it would only be wheeled out for art projects and personal gigs, so this is probably more relevant in my world and has that “wet weekend” experimental feel rather than a more serious commitment of dollars into a new range.
The next lens to try if the antique 25mm Pen half frame lens on M43 (or maybe get a full frame adapter?).