$60 vs $1,500 Anamorphic Lens 

Thank you, Simon. for all these years of teaching us filmmaking

The main benefit of anamorphics for me is actually the difference perspective. When using a wide anamorphic like 40mm or 35mm (on S35) you get a very natural perspective, similar to the human eye you can’t get with cropping a spherical lenses. Also long lenses look much less claustrophobic, so you can generate real pressure with long lens close ups without getting too tight.

You mentioned that with real anamorphic you gain image on the left and right of frame, but the specific thing that I think is worth mentioning about anamorphic over cropping 2:39:1 is that if you shoot a 2x dequeeze coefficient, your 50mm lens now has the perspective of a 50mm but the FOV of a 25mm. Knowing that detail about the lens is huge for a DP. If you crop 2:39:1 on say a spherical 50mm, you have the perspective of a 50mm with the FOV of a 50mm. The mismatch of perspective and FOV is one of the biggest selling points for anamorphic. Cheers man!

Even cheaper and safer way to get oval bokeh, is to have a oval cut out in a filter and put it on the front. Shoot the lens wide open. Also you can have different shapes cut outs to get stuff like stars, hearts and other tacky things.

love how these videos are looking these days, I mean they always have looked good, but it's cool seeing the progression and some really polished and gorgeous images in these. Thanks for the inspo as always! Cheers

One of the advantages of an anamorphic lens is it gives you the compression characteristics of a longer focal length while retaining the wider horizontal field of view of a shorter focal length. For example, a 50mm lens with a 2x stretch will have the the same horizontal field of view as a 25mm spherical lens, but without causing the perspective distortion typical of the wider lens. Cropping something shot with a spherical lens does not yield the same effect.

Thanks as always Simon, I've been experimenting with bokeh filters recently and have definitely noticed their limitations! Really cool to see those in-camera mods.

Great idea for comparison and well executed. Thank you for sharing these thoughts and all the beautiful imagery :)

Great video, well explained. I also have a converted Helios 44-2 but with the aperture blades removed so I have to use a variable ND filter to control exposure.

This is awesome! Thank you for this, Simon! I've been looking for a way to achieve this look without going into debt! Haha!

I'd have loved if you compared them side by side! Afaik, an anamorphic has a distinct compression effect due to having a wider vertical FoV than an horizontal one

Sooooo good to see you back mate 👍 That beard looks good too. Keep it up 👍

Great video my guy!

I did the same exact thing, except I used an anamorphic filter (with an oval shaped cutout) from Vid-Atlantic. I loved the results from it.

always a good way to start off the day when simon uploads

I've been following Tito Ferradans for years, and even his channel being relatively small, is cool to see how is basically impossible to talk about anamorphic lenses on youtube without citing him.

Your videos are very calming to me.

Great video Simon!

Nice overview!✨

Nice video... The harder-to-find streak filter is the clear one. Obviously, a streak filter does not alter the aspect ratio of the lens but provides "suggestive" anamorphic flare "effect" under specific circumstances

You can also get the fake lens flares with a clear plastic string, I did it with a cheap 50 mm 1.8 and a Rebel T3i

I forgot all about this amazing channel I’m so happy I found it again

Very good video, as always!

Wow man!! Thank you! 😮👍👍

barrel distortion is so underrated in terms of anamorphic quality...

Love His Quality Always Good Love it!

Very nice video! I work in the VFX industry and most of the movies I have to deal are shot in anamorphic, but for my personal works I prefer to shot with normal lenses, and just add a 2.35 mask and a diffusion filter if I want a bit more of a cinematic vibe! I admit I'm a bit lazy! :P

Thanks, I never knew about the oval inserts and just so happen to have a broken lens

Just bought the sankor 16c damm that lens is sharp. Taking lens is the Olympus 42mm 1.2. Lovely combo!

The man, the myth, the legend. Keep up the great work dude!!!

I tried out the anamor-fake look but there’s that extra something special that real anamorphic lenses have over just faking the look. Plus, like you addressed here, the oval shape is lost when stopping down using oval inserts.

I did it with an analog Sigma 28-70mm and it worked well. Also did that with my samyang 35mm.

The "great Joy" lenses looks really amazing. Where did you buy it? Only on Indigogo?

I haven't seen any way to really fake the anamorphic flares accurately yet, maybe sticking to overlays is the best you can do, have you found any way or filter that actually looks like anamorphic flares instead of a dirty lens?

You can actually do this mod with autofocus lenses, you can do it with any lens that you can get to the aperture mechanism!

Really enjoyed the music in the end section, do you have a link? Cheers

What about anamorphic adapters? Are those any good?

I`m really interested in modding the Samyang lenses. Difficult?

Wow. Fantastic :)

Pretty good. I just ordered a converted Helios from Ukraine for $144. I have a few other 44-2 lenses here. It was just a lark.

Wow! This is the first video by you I've had show up ony You Tube reccomended videos in about 2 years. Your a bit older now and still showing us cool stuff. I'm curious are you still shooting with Canon? I used to use my T3i back in the day. But now use a 90D and an R7.

DSLRguide = A filmmaker's guide to making life easier.

Ill lend you one of my Lomo square fronts to do a $1500 vs $10,000 anamorphic video

Why is the lighting strange or is it the lens or camera ?

Nice a new video

what is that last scene from? it looks gorgeous.

What lut did you use on last frame?

After watching to the end of the video my first reaction is.... "WHAT?!!" you talk so softly like if your in a library I can barely hear you X.x and I'm watching this video with earbuds on!

Even if you don't record in 4K, please render and upload the video in 4K. The compression on RU-vid would be way kinder, the dark blockiness doesn't have to look this bad, bub.

Can you compare to a phone anamorphic 😮that’s what I use 😊 and I still enjoy life ❤

I hate that the modified helios lens is even called anamorphic. It's no different than putting one of those bokeh filters with the oval cut out shape and maybe a blue streak through the middle. The bokeh and flare are not what makes a lens anamorphic. It's strictly the horizontally compressed image that makes a lens anamorphic. Anyway, the mod is cool for the helios but the same thing can be achieved with the screw on bokeh lens without messing with the optics, and it's less effort :)

Nobody's gonna talk about him eating weetabix dry???

Hey Simon, I've watching this channel for about 5 years, I have to say that I prefer the 17 year-old Simon Cade. The younger Simon had smart writing, you had special opinion about filmaking, you and me are the same age but I really admire that 17 year-old Simon Cade. 4 years ago, more people watching your channel than now, have you ever consider going back to that style ?

miss u

What ever works for your Art, and i say cheaper the better. But first a spherical lens distortion is on all angels cause its, Spherical, Unlike Anamorphic! field of view is something you cant also achieve on cropping a Spherical lens. Also you can not replicate the Lens effect with a filter. the nature of the Curved Anamorphic lens will make the Flare be more dynamic depending on where it is located unlike a filter which will always have a consistent lenght. another factor is the Chromatic aberration happening on the sides of the Anamorphic which is not the same on Spherical. overall, Anamorphic have more going than Spherical and can make a shot more dynamic. though shooting with it is much harder

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ill pay $60 get me a lens

that Cineflare flares are horrendous :) they don't look natural at all

Helios is built like a tank, it's really hard to brake it

too bad the video is super compressed and in 1080p so you can hardly see

youtube 1080p is lit 360p

Though we all knew you weren't getting rid of those lens at the very beginning. #FakeNews Hahaha! Cheers

ANAMORPHIC. It's in the TITLE. Omfg I was wondering why you were saying "animal thick" over and over again and why the hell 16:9 would be considered "animal thick". I'm so fucking dumb.

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The music doesn't match

This is Hackery, he doesn’t even mention the most important quality of anamorphic (flat flattering lensed faces while having wide vistas at same time, using spherical you’ll still have drivers license wide angle distorted faces close up to camera during wide shot). Talk about a hacks way to get easy views. Explain everything, we don’t need another disinformation filmmaker RU-vid channel.

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