Anamorphic scope lens

clarkage

clarkage

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4 Questions regarding anamorphic scope lenses:

What does it do exactly? Does it make your video any better? Is this in the right section of the forum? Will it go on any camera or does it only work on like a dvx100?
 
ok, thx for the help charles but will an anamorphic lens make the quality of the video any better or does it just change the format?
 
this is where i'm a bit stumped too.
as with emulsion, the anamorphic lens squeezes the much wider image onto it, and the projector lens unsqueezes it to it's orignial ratio.
however with video as it is pixels and not emulsion, i'm predicting that any 'un squeezing' done in post will simply interpolate the pixels (stretch them) and therefore loose resolution.
hence i'd feel that yes it simply changes the frame ratio, and would most likely make the image lesser (not better).
UNLESS there are anamorphic image sensors i don't know about? that would be really really cool :)
 
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anyone else know anything? I saw tht these were like $500 it doesnt seem like they would make you pay so much just to change format a little.
 
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