March 14, 2013 by Matthew Duclos Eric Koretz recently posted a very nice article detailing his experience with the Hawk Vintage '74 on his blog, The Image Hunter - Shot In The Wild. Koretz describes how the lenses performed and provides plenty of perfectly de squeezed frame grabs and setup shots. So What are the Hawk Vintage 74s?
Vantage V-Lite Vintage '74 110 T3.1 140 T3.7 Cinematographers who seek the signature 1970s look, complete with low contrast, flares, color aberrations, and other "flaws" can now achieve that look with lenses that incorporate state-of-the-art optics and mechanics and work seamlessly with the latest accessories. Vantage Hawk V-Series 250 T3
With thirteen brands of today's best anamorphic glass, we tested some of the best, most exotic and expensive lenses to some of the rarest and oldest lenses, to some of the cheapest adaptors and Seiple used a cornucopia of LUTs (Lookup Tables) and different lenses to create the distinctive look and feel of each of the multiverses, freely mixing spherical and anamorphic as needed: Atlas Orion, Hawk V-Lite, Scorpiolens, Canon K-35, Zeiss Super Speed, Zeiss Master Prime, and even a vintage Todd-AO lens. Most of the Hawk lenses are available as Vintage'74 versions. Hawk V‑Lite 2x anamorphic lenses and the Red Monstro VistaVision 8K sensor recently combined for but I liked the combination of Hawk V‑Lites and the Red Monstro. So we shot 8K 5x6 on the big VistaVision-gauge sensor and reframed to 2:1, resulting in 4.3K resolution. Arriflex 235, Hawk V-Lite, V-Lite Vintage '74 and V-Plus Lenses; Arriflex 435 Advanced, Hawk V-Lite, V-Lite Vintage '74 and V-Plus Lenses; Laboratory. ARRI Film & TV, München, Germany (dailies: Europe) Film Lab, New York (NY), USA (dailies processing) . 204 481 116 448 381 16 351 61

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