Rooftop bumps

[David S]

I just got an anamorphic lens and Ive been playing with it for stills. Finally I can shoot like 2:4:1 (cineascope) ratio on digital APS-C in full quality.

 

[JimFox]

That lens looks great Dave! That's pretty cool you can shoot that format without needing to crop.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Interesting. So do you have to do software correction in post for this?

 

[AlanLichty]

This looks like it could get interesting....

 

[DES]

I appreciate seeing the sample photo you posted. The quality looks very good. I have a couple of anamorphic lenses from many years ago when I was doing mainly motion pictures. I don't think my lenses are the best quality and certainly wouldn't compare to those available today. Be sure to let us see more.

 

[David S]

Interesting. So do you have to do software correction in post for this?

Yes! I have to use adobe bridge and do my basic film emulation and highlights / shadows and then I bring it into photoshop and edit the dimensions to” desqueeze” it by multiplying the width by 33% - then I do curves and save as a tiff then I open then all in Lightroom to do color cropping sharpening etc… it’s quite a process but not bad

 

[David S]

I appreciate seeing the sample photo you posted. The quality looks very good. I have a couple of anamorphic lenses from many years ago when I was doing mainly motion pictures. I don't think my lenses are the best quality and certainly wouldn't compare to those available today. Be sure to let us see more.

Dont get rid of them !! Maybe with converters they would have nice vintage character for modern digital cameras that are too sharp anyways ! Just a thought
I would definitely try one out if it would fit a converter for Fuji X