I haven't thought about this being like a digital xpan minus the lens characteristic. Thanks! Editing tip with desqueeze in photoshop. Go to image>image size, divide height value by squeeze factor eg. 6000/2. Or multiple the width by squeeze factor, which is slower.
Puppet warp might have been a better option than Liquify, and can be wrapped in an action if all images have the same distortion. Great content btw Magic, love your channel
I'm gonna have to pick one up. I currently crop to cinemascope and just shoot with a slightly wider lens than needed for what I'm up to. It's a pale imitation, but the vibe does often carry over. That said, this video pretty much convinced me to switch over to anamorphic. I've been waiting for the right lens to pull the trigger.. and I think it finally arrived. Sirui just launched the new version of this lens and it looks awesome. It's also like $200 cheaper. Your street shots around Japan are very similar to how I shoot around Manhattan. That's the other thing that convinced me-- finally someone who's posting shots like I actually make! For the barrel fix... another option is the Warp Tool in Photoshop. Not the fancy version, but rather the old school one found under Edit > Transform > Warp. It's tied to a grid and warps are done by editing the individual nodes in the grid. Holding Shift while moving grid nodes also keeps them locked to strict vertical only (or horizontal only) moves. So you can just grab the nodes found along the left and right borders of the image- but only the grids in the center of the frame edge. Drag them out horizontally away from center and it should just fix the issue straight up. Also easy to do as an action. Anyway. Thanks for the video. From me, not from my bank account. My bank account is kinda mad at you :P
Shooting a marriage with a anamorphic lens and a cinematic filmstock LUT can turn the photos in a personal movie for the couple. It is worth to offer it to couple who is going to marry. This lens made a great job for city and street. I think it is good for wide landscapes as welll 1: 2.39 aspect ratio is freshing up still photography.
I’ve been obsessed with this look since I saw videos of the atlas Mercury, settled on the Blazar Remus 1.5 45mm and it’s pretty sick not gonna lie. Just wish my GFX100ii could de squeeze the stills like it can the video. Maybe a firmware update down the road I dunno
Love these images! I"ve always lusted after the Xpan but never pulled the trigger. Have you tried this in pixel shift mode? If yes, how's the quality? Could be great for pano landscapes.
Thank you for making this video! I have been looking for someone to use this lens for pictures because I have the Fuji gfx 50s and love the xpan shots it takes but I want to move over to canon but I didn’t want to lose the 65:24. SIRUI has just announced their nighthawk line for $300 early bird prices so I will wait🎉🎉🎉 ps love the videos please never stop🔥🔥
Wonderful use of the 35mm, great examples this is a very helpful review!! Thank you for sharing this, it's for sure my next lens I want. Is it for you, what you said, just for the fun or do you thing this will be asked for by your customers? I do not see many of these anamorphic photo's I think it's a shame. But also it is a shame that Instagram still not support these widescreen photo's.
Amazing photo quality and effects with this lense , wondering if we cant see the effects until post production when u change the aspect ratio on Photoshop?
just a question since you have experience in anamorphic and 'normal' lenses i guess you the best person to ask ive never used an anamorphic lens before but i love the look so ive mimicked the anamorphic look by cropping my video or adding black bars (letter box) to it and I also have this lens filter with stripes across it to give me that 'anamorphic flare' so my question is from that point is it worth 'for me' to buy an actual anamorphic lens or should i just keep doing what am doing and its close enough and call it a day mind you i shoot weddings and you how it is and the turn around needs to be ASAP and all that so what do you advise me ?
I have that lens. The size is crazy small. I have been using it on a gimbal for video, I will do a walkaround photo shoot with it to see. I have to admit I never thought of doing it until I was this video. One thing to note with the these lenses is they have made me rethink my other lens choices. The contrast is much greater than my Rokinon lenses and so I now want a wideish lens for other parts of my video that match the characteristics and also a 24mm version of this lens.
Great inspiration... your video inspired me to try the 35 and 75 Sirui 2.9 lenses.. as a former user of the x pan I also will experiment with the panoramic effects and look of the lenses for architecture, landscape, people... all the best, Tom (Berlin/Germany). PS. the main issues remaining.. I will have to learn manual focusing again .. and: how can I control the kind of irregular distortion with the 35 mil? the distortion is so "mixed" top down and left right, that the standard tool of PS elements does not seem to manage it in a satisfying manner..
It must be great to shoot landscape photos with it. The canon EF mount is not supported. Giving wedding photos a cinematic look could be loved by customers.
@@MagicWeddingPhotographer please do compare the 20mm f1. 8 & the 35mm sirui! It would be a lifehack if the 20mm crop offer a similar look, as it's lightweight and does autofocus! Thanks!
Cool video! I was thinking to try it with a7s iii which has 12megapixels, I think should deliver same results? Because at the end of the day you are just destretching the image you are not cropping it or punching in? or im missing something?
Hi man. It is very interesting approach to have XPAN-like digital photos. Didn't you try other lenses from Venus lineup? May be for street photography would be more easy to work with Venus 50... Would you please share some RAWs (2-3 samples) to try? I would be very grateful for that;) Thank you for your video.
So if instead of this lens you use a "normal" anamorphic adapter and turn it 90º, so you have to desqueeze it vertically, you will get a square photo much like 6x6. Did anyone tried this?
Hey! I used the Accsoon Seemo, which I think it's superb for this! It's recording device that uses a phone as screen -> www.accsoon.com/products/accsoon-seemo/
How about using a 24 or 16mm full frame lens and then just cropping the photos? I admit they won’t have the characteristics of an anamorphic lens, but this is like a simple hack
@@yargnad I wonder too if you take a high-res body like the 61MP Sonys and a very sharp wide angle (I use 20G and 24GM) and then crop in post, if the images will not be as good or better in terms of resolution than this lens (at least if this lens is used on a low MP body). I wonder how sharp these anamorphic lenses are in general. Cropping in post has the advantage of having lossless keystone correction (just level the camera and move the crop up or down).
16 would give fisheye like distortion, i think you wanna be around 28/30 mm ff if you Are going for the xpan look. And also you would want to have a pretty shallow depth of field
Hi Magic, thanks for the amazing content 🙏 I was wondering if the anamorphic for photography works with RAW aspect ratio 🤔 Do I have to work only with JPG baked 16:9 or it will be the same in RAW?
Great video, Magic! I’ve been looking to make anamorphic stills for years and tried some of the earlier Sirui offerings. This new full frame lens looks awesome! I’ve also been looking at the Venus Optics mirrorless anamorphic lenses as well! They are super 35 but apparently still fit on full frame fields of view with minimal vignetting and are very compact (more like a stills lens size) and they also have interchangeable lens mounts. They also offer different flare color types of orange, blue or silver. I’ve been eying those lenses myself as a new anamorphic photo kit! Check it out if you get a chance!
