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Letus Extreme Lens Adapter: Great Depth of Field
by Stacy Jones Sutton
Radek Michalik here giving a rundown on a sleek little piece of hardware I just invested in. I'm talking about the Letus Extreme lens adapter.
For those not in the know, lens adapters came about as a means to bridge the visual quality gap between film and video. One of the most noticeable differences between the two is depth of field. Film cameras naturally have a narrower depth of field, resulting in a very cinematic, organic image. Through mystical optics wizardry that I won’t go into here (mostly because I don’t really understand it), the lens adapter was born, allowing a filmmaker to use 35mm lenses instead of the video camera’s stock lens.
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