Laowa has introduced two new lenses to its anamorphic Nanomorph lineup – a new 65mm T2.4 and 80mm T2.4 – alongside a new 1.33x front anamorphic adapter to increase your cinematography creativity.

This $21,000 prototype lens from Xelmus, with an enormous 150° field of view, is the world's widest anamorphic optic ...

Filmmaker Ryan Freeman has asked the unaskable: can you compare a $30,000 Cooke anamorphic lens with a $1,000 Zeiss spherical lens? Well, to insert a bit of a spoiler here, no, you can't. Cooke makes ...

Replay: Anamorphic lenses used to be big, heavy, and softer than their spherical counterparts. Here's why modern anamorphic lenses don't need to suffer the same limitations. The issue is that a lot of ...

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LOS ANGELES—Today there’s no such thing as a project for one distribution medium. While the last century had movies finding their way to television and VHS, the theatrical screen was the focus (no pun ...

Other than a few very niche lenses, like tilt-shift or fish-eye, anamorphic glass tends to have the most distinctive look that is easy to spot, even to the uninitiated. They often have an almost three ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Lanyon shot six episodes of Star Trek: Picard, alternating with DP Darran Tiernan. Having two DPs ...