[Philip John]

Hi Blaise, thanks for the reply.

Some of what you’ve mentioned we’ve subsequently talked about in terms of managing people’s expectations.

I share the same concerns about using gopros but I might be forced into that method because of budget. I made a test shot using gopros and it turned out…okay.

I’m using that as the basis for pushing to use dslrs instead. A bit more money goes a long way etc The gopro test at least proved the banana array ‘fixes’ the nodal point parallax problem.

The horizontal mount link you’ve posted is the same one I included in my original project aims document. Great minds and all that.

One thing I’m confused about though is the anamorphic lenses that you mentioned. Forgive me if I’m missing something obvious here but if my camera only records 4k whatever lens I use means I’m still get 4k right? But with an anamorphic lens does it mean that I’m getting 4k of ‘non-square’ pixels which means when I pop the ‘vertically stretched’ image out in an edit I am in fact get that 2x or 1.5x width? My background is in post not shooting.

We have 2 GH5 cameras and I’ve found this article

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/04/panasonic-gh5-6k-widescreen-intraframe/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJcPSUUAaDIBCub8Kp2-XAmqyW0P0eezImRfYWCr-0BNgVlI_Hw6kbrk6uCSGmNl6Wx939oHZbh7reHv6hFXUqJ4vv4CWKRIXT9aruzn9Ad9toyCc__kRM0qvMIjRsdKWwgP625Hwm9xu8wfYQgRUZvVxJqTv0ezmK50j3uI731Z

Which might be the right solution, I may even be able to loan a 3rd camera which means I’ll have enough coverage for the ultrawide shot.

Thanks – Phil