Like clothing trends, anamorphic has fallen in and out of fashion.Ĭinemascope enjoyed a boom in the early '50s but its use quickly declined in favor of technically superior spherical ‘flat’ widescreen formats. If you’d like to learn more about the optical design and aesthetics of anamorphic lenses, check out this incredible video by Media Division:Īnamorphic Lenses Today Cinemascope's legacy A wide variety of looks can be achieved with anamorphic lenses.
Vintage anamorphic lenses have lots of imperfections but some modern anamorphics are almost indistinguishable from their spherical counterparts.
These practical considerations are no longer relevant as modern digital cameras are capable of emulating different capture formats.Īs with all lenses, anamorphic lens designs have improved greatly over the past 80 years. 1.33x squeeze lenses were designed to produce the same aspect ratio with a 1.78:1 (16:9) digital sensor. But in the past different squeeze factors were used to produce different aspect ratios when combined with different sized film or digital sensors.įor example, the most common type of anamorphic lens is a 2x, which was originally designed to produce a 2.39:1 (or similar) aspect ratio image when used with 4-perf 35mm film.
Nowadays, cinematographers typically choose the squeeze factor based on the aesthetic of the image it produces. The stronger the squeeze the more pronounced the ‘anamorphic look’ becomes. There are many different types of anamorphic lenses commonly called ‘Scopes,’ each with a different strength squeeze. Anamorphic types Different types of anamorphic lenses
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