{"id":192,"date":"2008-04-12T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T10:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"7588dec7-7fb3-46b4-9908-5b2f7c10f3e2"},"modified":"2008-04-12T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T10:12:34","slug":"letus-ultimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/letus-ultimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Letus Ultimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 3am here in Vegas and I have been up since 6am yesterday. I got up to go to Death Valley to do a nice short. It was great. Stunning scenery, hot and hopefully it will all come together nicely. Already got the music picked out! Anyway, I digress&#8230;I have just come from one of the 183 restaurants in the MGM Grand where I finally met Hien Tu Le, one half of Letus.<\/p>\n<p>So, finally I was able to give a face to the voice. I think NAB will be a lot of that. I am having dinner with Steve Cahill on Tuesday and Brunch with Cher on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>He showed me the new Ultimate, the latest and possibly greatest adaptor they have made. Hien told me about it at the end of last year and I have been desperate to see it. Tonight I did. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Steven Dempsey beat me to the punch and played with it briefly this week. Tomorrow\/ Today\/ Whatever the bloody day is, I get it for a day and half before it sits on the Zacuto stand for every Tom, Dick and Harry to drool over, fondle and attempt to pinch. <\/p>\n<p>The best news is it\u2019s a spinner, like the M2 and SgPro but a much much smaller spinning disc. The size and shape are almost identical to the Extreme but it being a spinner means dust is barely an issue now, high shutter speeds are finally possible and you can completely stop the lens down as well. <\/p>\n<p>You also have a superb backfocus adjustment and a dial in speed counter. Also a low battery warning light and a dc in for external power. <\/p>\n<p>I believe the bokeh is better and the light loss is half a stop. It is also going to be much more expensive, but I am trying to talk him down on that!<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway I will get to do some shooting and I will post my results here very soon!<\/p>\n<p>Speak soon!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/letus-ultimate\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[937,938],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}