Why use an anamorphic lens?

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mrbrycel

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Sorry if theres a thread about this right under my nose, but i couldnt find it.

I'm confused, if the HVX200 has native 16:9 CCDs, what would an anamorphic lens adapter do? Just make it wider? But then wouldnt it be just a 16:9 wide angle adapter? And if you had the anamorphic adapter, you wouldnt be able attach a 35mm lens adapter to it would you?

Thanks ahead for helping me understand
 
mrbrycel said:
Sorry if theres a thread about this right under my nose, but i couldnt find it.

I'm confused, if the HVX200 has native 16:9 CCDs, what would an anamorphic lens adapter do? Just make it wider? But then wouldnt it be just a 16:9 wide angle adapter? And if you had the anamorphic adapter, you wouldnt be able attach a 35mm lens adapter to it would you?

Thanks ahead for helping me understand
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Well, 16:9 is about 1.78:1, academy standard is 1.85:1 and academy widescreen is 2.35:1.

Now you can achieve does aspects by cropping, but then you lose pixel/information but if you have anamorphic you can squeese them in there in the headroom. Anamorphic also have a certain "look" to it. Wall-E, completly digital, is rendered with "anamorphic lenses in the rendering software" so to mimic the 1970's sci-fiction movies. Flares ar very easy to see whether they are anamorphic or not...
 
High1ander said:
Well, 16:9 is about 1.78:1, academy standard is 1.85:1 and academy widescreen is 2.35:1.

Now you can achieve does aspects by cropping, but then you lose pixel/information but if you have anamorphic you can squeese them in there in the headroom. Anamorphic also have a certain "look" to it. Wall-E, completly digital, is rendered with "anamorphic lenses in the rendering software" so to mimic the 1970's sci-fiction movies. Flares ar very easy to see whether they are anamorphic or not...
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So if you cropped 1.78:1 footage to 2.35.1 would it look horizontally stretched like 4:3 footage looks when you make it 1.78:1?
 
Not if you're "cropping." When you crop an image, you're removing part of the picture to fit in a certain aspect ratio. This is different than true reformating (which would likely result in some kind of stretching).
 
Here's my take.

The anamorphic adapter for the HVX200 more or less enables one to shoot "ultra-widescreen" the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. It squeezes the image such that in post you can modify the overall aspect ratio and it will look right.

They also make anamorphic PL lenses for 35mm cameras. I've never heard of them being used with 35mm adapters. But hey it might work!
 
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The above image compares 4:3 to Academy Widescreen 16:9 to Anamorphic Widescreen
 
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