First Eyemo Test

[Will2]

Test of 1940's era Eyemo 35mm movie camera with stock Eymax 25mm lens. Shot on out-of-date Kodak Double-X black & white negative stock.

After shooting 16mm for years, I notice edge details and a general sharpness that was unexpected with such a cheap fixed focus lens. The corners show distortion and blur almost like a Holga plastic lens would show, but the center is noticeably sharper to me than most of my 16mm work.

I have no viewfinder lenses for this camera so I just point it in the general direction of what I want to film and hope for the best.

Transferred on a Spirit to ProRes HQ 1920x1080 by &Transfer. No grain reduction used.

EYEMO TEST LINK

[71er]

I wouldn't call that a "cheap lens". Great shots! Unfortunately the footage came over jumpy by vimeo for some reason.

[Wade]

Beautiful footage! Yeah, my cheapo computer can't handle the .mov HD file either--even downloaded its jumpy. I expect it will be better when Vimeo converts to h264.

[Will2]

Hmmmm.... maybe I should turn off the 1080p option. I noticed a big difference in quality with it on though. But if it doesn't play for most people that would be a problem. It's the first time I used the 1080p on Vimeo.

[Will2]

Beautiful footage!

Thanks, got lucky with the light.

I wouldn't call that a "cheap lens"

It's the fixed-focus tiny little Eymax lens going for $19.99 on eBay... guess cheap is relative.

[David M. Leugers]

Awesome! It played fine once I let it load. Pretty amazing images and I liked the sound effects and music. Did you use a filter? Shooting with Double-X with an Eyemo I guess would strain the latitude of even B+W negative. The Eyemo can deliver the goods and we all have seen tons of footage in movies shot with them
I am sure. For decades is was known as THE crash camera...

Does the viewfinder on the Eyemo have the same threads as the viewing lenses for the Filmo? If so, you should be able to use the Filmo viewfinder lenses, just
use the focal length that is half I.E. for the 25mm lens you used, use a 12 or 13mm
viewfinder lens.

[Will2]

No filters, but a friend did the transfer when I wasn't there so he may have used some tricks on the Spirit/DaVinci, and certainly some skill. I don't think he spent much time working it so I doubt any extraordinary measures were used.

I also have a 2nd pass framed to 16:9 in HD.

Not sure about the Filmo/Eyemo viewfinder compatibility but it would be good to know. I'm having a Nikon mount put on and I'll try to pick up a selection of viewfinder lenses.

It's fun with the 25mm lens because it's so wide I can just frame in transfer and not worry too much about the perfect shot. 35mm gives a little more flexibility for that.