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July 14th. MK3 lens sale NOW ONLY $1799. Be quick limited stock in this batch.
June 11th. New batch of MK3 lenses now in stock. Still only $1999 and shipping Worldwide.
June 3rd. The new batch of MK3 lenses are being built next week.
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The black case is our standard finish. Click to view larger version.
NEWS May 16th 2009: The MK3 is now available in a custom white finish. For those of you with white ceilings and or white projectors, the MK3 in white is a nice match! RRP $1,999.
NEWS May 5th 2009: See what others are saying! Folks around Australia and the World have been recieving their MK3 lenses. Check out the AVS Forum in the USA for the MK3 thread and also DTV Forum for a couple of current threads.
Dealer inquiries are welcome.
The lens itself is purely hybrid by nature, featuring a piano black acrylic cradle and case with black velour lining the inside. The total product will ship under 5KG and comes with a free heavy duty slide (not in picture)
What's great about this new lens is it will now rival lenses costing upwards of $4,000 but for much much less. The suggested RRP for this high end prism lens will be $1,999. Rather impressive when you consider what is in the market at present.
The Aussiemorphic MK3 lens is a cost effective Anamorphic Lens for use in Home Cinema applications. The Aussiemorphic Lens is a wholly Australian Made 2 prism 4 element horizontal expansion lens, and when used in conjunction with a projector or scaler that can do the required vertical stretch, the result is true cinemascope with no grey bars top or bottom, just like the Movies. The lens uses BBAR (Broadband Anti Reflective Coated) low dispersion achromatic glass prisms. In other words folks, this is not a 'trophy lens', this is the real deal!
Designed and manufactured by CAVX and Oz Theatre Screens, for use with our legendary Majestic Scope Screens, the Aussiemorphic Lens is the best value for money CA corrected Anamorphic Lens on the market. You no longer need a six figure income to enjoy Cinemascope movies in your own home - The Way The Director Intended!
The Aussiemorphic Lens can be purchased online at our store www.projectorscreens.com.au and we ship Worldwide. Dealer inquiries are also welcome.
See below to better understand our lens and cinemascope and learn why you need one and why you'll want one!
We start here with a Cinemascope projection screen that has a ratio of 2.37:1 (21.33 X 9). All cinemascope movies will have grey bars at the top and bottom which make up a total of 25% of the image height. These grey bars are not black as digital projectors cannot project black, only shades of grey (which vary according to the projector being used).
There are only 810 viewable lines of resolution for a 1080P Projector and only 540 viewable lines for a 720P Projector.
We then use a projector or an external scaler that can perform the electronic vertical stretch. This stretches the image vertically and utilises the active pixels that are wasted in the grey bars which increasing your on screen light output by 33% instantly. The problem here is everyone will look tall and skinny. (In this particular shot it's the trees that look out of shape)
We are now using the entire 1,080 lines of vertical resolution for a 1080P Projector.
The 3rd step is to use an Anamorphic Lens. An Anamorphic Lens is a horizontal expansion lens that optically restores the geometry of the vertically stretch image.
The result is deluxe cinemascope widescreen with no annoying grey bars top or bottom ever again.
Take a look at the top shot (the letterboxed image) and compare it to the image on the left. When you measure the image sizes. What you have is 1.78 X 1 - less 25% for the black bars - so we end up with 1.78 X .75 = 1.335 squares.
But for cinemascope we have 2.37 X 1 = 2.37 squares.
2.37 divided by 1.335 = 1.77. Which means your cinemascope movies, combined with a lens are now 1.77 times larger image than the original letterboxed viewable image or 77% larger.
Not only do you end up with optimal 16:9 image size but you now have a very immersive cinemascope image with more resolution, more detail and higher brightness. This is how they do it at the movies. The ads finish, a lens slides into place and the curtains open up to the walls. Cinemascope is meant to be larger than HDTV, not smaller than the 6 o'clock news!
When we utilise the pixels from the grey bars we increase the overall vertical pixel count. On a 1080P projector there are only 810 viewable lines of resolution when watching a cinemascope movie without a lens. When we vertically stretch an image we end up utilising the full 1,080 lines of resolution. (the way we were meant to view the movie) This results in a 25% increase in active pixels, in other words a 25% increase in brightness. (imagine the above images being a white field to understand better)
Why coat lenses? Broadband Optical Coating reduces stray light bouncing off the prisms both in between the prisms and on the outside. BBAR makes the glass nearly 100% transmissive, which means they become fully effective in their role in projection. Without coating you will see a secondary image to the left of the screen and a third image on the right side of your wall where the stray light leaks out from behind the lens. You can often have a 4th image on your ceiling!
It really is simple mathematics. 1,080 lines will show more detail over 810 lines (used with the zoom method). The result is an image utilising the full pixel count which will yield a more detailed image. (The above shot is a simulated image)
What does CA do to an image? Chromatic Abberations are caused by the inability of the glass to focus the projectors red, blue and green light at one focal point. The three light wavelengths are displaced, sometimes up to 15 to 30 pixels in width. This causes both colour fringing (CA). It also causes a major softening of the image.
With a proper CA corrected lens, these optical problems are eliminated for the most part. Colour fringing is reduced leaving you with an image that out performs your local cinema!
Imagine being at the Cinema, knowing what you went to see was a Scope film, the ads and previews come on and run their course, you're waiting for the lens to slide across and the curtains to open right out the walls, but something else happens. The curtains don't open up to the walls, instead, they present the Cinemascope movie as a letterboxed 16:9 film with grey bars top and bottom. Oh the shock, the image is the same width as the boring ads but is 25% shorter. The ads were bigger! Doesn't quite sound right does it? The ads were bigger than the actual movie.
Well, sadly this is what we've been settling for in Home Theatre. If you use a 16:9 screen, all your Cinemascope movies will be smaller than the local news! If you do the maths, a letterboxed 16:9 image is 1.78 X .75 = 1.33 - This means letterboxed scope films have an image area the same as a 4:3 film, or 33% smaller than the news and 77% smaller than Cinemascope with a lens in place.
How do you create that immersion factor you get at the Cinema in your own home? You do what the pros do, use an Anamorphic Lens and a Cinemascope Screen. (Cinema screens are in cinemascope format, not 16:9, they simply use curtains to mask the width when required)
The good news is now it is affordable. At long last, a high quality CA corrected anamoprhic lens at an unheard of price. This Aussiemorphic MK3 lens will bring true Cinemascope into the home of the 'ordinary man' - that's most of us! Lenses will always be an essential part of home cinema for those wanting an immersive movie experience. We see the lens as a normal piece of home theatre equipment just like the projector and screen. Afterall, the advantages of a lens and scope screen are unrivalled.
MK3 SCREEN SHOTS From various dates.
Top row equipment: JVC HD350 and 135 inch Majestic Scope screen w Evo3D vinyl.
Rest: BenQ W5000, 135 inch Majestic Scope screen with Evolution3D fabric.
These images are simply stunning and better than what we had expected!
Click on the thumnails below to view the larger images.
JVC HD550 and Evo3D screen shots coming soon!
For those of you who don't believe these photos are the real deal, please feel free to email us for the original JPG file.
All photos were taken with an entry level Digital SLR camera, a Canon EOS 450. Not only are these images real, they are better in real life as these images suffer from JPEG compression. We simply import the original files into the simplest of programs - Microsoft Paint - We then resize the image (as the original files are huge) for use on this website. No alterations are done at all. In fact if you look closely you can see the top of my whatmough speakers in front of the screen.
Grid shot, hey presto, no CA!
Notice how little pin cushion there is. This is because I have a TR of 2.2:1.
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Page last updated June 11th 2010.
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