Why Anamorphic Lenses are Used in Major Films & How To Use Them ft. Atlas Lens Co 

I love the irony of having Deakins book on the table in a video talking about anamorphic 🙃

Thanks so Much Gene and Kari ! Really appreciate the opportunity to discuss Anamorphic lenses with you, and happy to answer any questions from your community and viewers !

Of all the RU-vidrs I follow, Gene seems to get the most respect from Hollywood. Great video!

Wow! Talk about customer engagement! I wish these guys all the success in the world. It's great to see real subject matter experts talking about their passion...

These lenses are incredible. My favourite are the Panavision T series but Atlas are looking like the second place contenders. Really great to ‘meet’ the owners.

Besides cool flares and oval bokeh the best thing with anamorphic lenses is how they make persons just "pop out" from the image. Hard to describe what it is. Almost 3D feeling.

One of the best photo videos ever. The Atlas guys are great and inspiring. Potato Jet did a great job with the interview. Thank you.

When the first re-boot of Star Trek with Chris Pine came out the first action shots of the Bridge of the ship are just beauty. It lens choice in that part of the movie added so much to the film. The scene lasted less an a minute but set the pace for the rest of the movie. From 25 miles north of London, have a great Xmas. Be lucky stay safe.

Hey Gene! Loved this video man. It's awesome to see people geeking out about cameras/lenses. I've been curious about anamorphic lenses for a while and this video really helped me understand everything a lot more! :)

Love this company and their products! My coworkers and I always visit their booth at NAB and collect their merch. Gene, I ran into you this year but I didn’t want to interrupt your interview. Great video!

Such genuinely lovely and tremendously knowledgeable chaps! It’s a joy to see such passion and a desire to pass on that wealth of expertise to others. Thank you so very much Gene for sharing your experience of meeting the faces behind Atlas with us!

Brilliant, no other words for it. Merry Christmas and stay well 🇬🇧👍

Great video Gene! Thanks, Dan and Forrest for your contribution to this field :)

WHOA. That was the BEST Video in a while... Great information, Detail and what a couple of GREAT GUYS with such a generous offer!

So well shot and edited! Thanks for this. Great hang with Atlas.

It was great meeting you at Atlas! My students were also stoked to meet you! Please do more of these deep dives

Such an awesome episode Gene!🙌✨

Fantastic Video!! Thank you for taking time to create this type of content. Educational, beautiful, and fun to watch.

Learned so much in this video. Thanks to everyone involved.

Great video & Great to see Dan!

Thank you for putting all this effort in your videos man 😎

These Atlas guys are the real deal. Artist innovators. Fascinating information!

Love your mobile platform/set! Nice work!

So fun! Thank you Gene and Kari!

Been waiting for this one for yeeeeears, ever since you did that one video with Art and the Arri Master Primes. Thank you

Such a rad breakdown of anamorphic. Would love to be able to use one one-day.

this was so good, enojoyed every second of info, these two are amazing.

What a great and informative video about anamorphic lens - thanks for making it!!

Thanks for including my unqualified question @ 26:36 😂 I forgot I actually asked that lol Great video btw! Learned a lot! 🤘😳

Terrific and informative video, very appreciated!!! 🙌🙌🙌

Great video, love the Atlas guys

This is very cool. As a business founder myself, I fully appreciate the guts and work of these guys.

A much required discussion on the internet. Potato Jet done an incredible job.

This was so dope!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🔥🔥

I recently took the lens of my Nikonos Underwater camera (50 years old), and modified an adapter ring to mount it on one of my Blackmagic Cameras. It captured an image that I have never seen before. Parralex was completely eliminated. A unique look. I bought an Anamorphic Projector lens from a auction sale of an old Cinema some 40 years ago. It was a prop for all that time. Now I will need to brush up on my trigonometry and mathematics before I even open the box.

Man. I need to figure out where to begin on this one. Gene, you, your crew, Dan and Forrest have completely knocked it out of the park, the country, and the freakin local universe. I am a camera/lens newbie (halfway through LAFS while working as a Sommelier for MFG / Carbone . . . @ 47 years old), and if it weren't for you and Josh Yeo, I don't know where I would be. Dan and Forest's lenses are already spectacular and unique, and the extra attention to education and inviting people to create is humbling and downright teary-eyed inspiring. ( I'm not crying; YOU'RE CRYING!) I am so grateful to live in this era, but that would not be giving the credit and acknowledgment that all of you deserve. Thank you so much for this video and this deep dive into not only anamorphic lenses but our craft of film and lenses. You and Josh have already turned me into more of a SuperNerd than I could have imagined in this aspect, and I'm so happy that I'm apparently not alone. Lol. Please consider expanding a series like this with deep dives and education; I've learned more through you and your introduction to complex material than I would have gotten in 2 years of amateur film school. This and the ARRI episode have been a couple of my favorites, but let's be honest, you pack amazing content into every episode. Thank you again; your commitment to putting something great out for everyone is clear. YOU. FUCKING, ROCK, MAN. Deuces from Dallas.

Great Video, great lenses, great Dudes. Love this kind of deep dives. Would love to see more like this (I know it is higher production effort, so maybe lower frequency) instead of the 10000th FPV Drone-Vid.

Nice! Was hoping for a video about this 😃

I understood like 5% of the whole video :D Loved the relaxed and peacful conversation. People who found their passion👍🏼

Waiting for a video like this!!

This is fascinating stuff - what a great video

Very good. It'senjoyable listening to very smart people and seeing their mark within industry and the wealth of knowledge they carry on the subject. Learned quite a bit today. This company seems open and generous with their time and feel it beyond use as some marketing tool.

Excellent video! Will return to it many times I am sure

kudos for the table angle with the monitor displaying your guests. never seen this in any youtube video before. small idea thats pushing content quality forward

Fascinating that out from a constraint based solution we got this beautiful immersive look.

I love videos like this! Can you do a series of videos like this?

Love my Atlas Orion set, best lens investment I made!

I'm shooting with Orions for the first time this week. I am super excited to see how they work.

Appreahiate the deep dive by all involved. Love the look of the Original Atlas lenses and excited to see them in use on the upcoming "Babylon".

Hey thanks so much for doing this: Anamorphic knowledge and insight amazing.

This was the BEST!

This was amazing. Thank you.

loved those guys and the lens

This really greate! Thanx all of you! :)

Great Video...a lot to learn...Anamorphic it is from now on... but too many numbers to remember.

to the point! loved this video! thnaks

How amazing the look that lens makes 😮Omg

Music Videos (MTV) came along in the 80's, (spherical) flares were used creatively in general. Initially adopted for commercials and later (Anamorphic) flares were more widely accepted and used on feature films.

the mercury line looks super interesting!

surprised to not see the interview be shot with anamorphic lenses!

Thank you for very interesting video!

15:31 Diopter! Thanks for the explanation on this

Awesome!!!

What a great video. Atlas is a name I heard of more and more and they seem like such a down to earth good people business. I loooove the anamorphic look and if I ever were to consider buying a single lens what focal length would you recommend? S35 or FF?

Awesome. Atlas seem like really cool guys. 👍

I like these guys! Total anamorphic freaks.

Watching this video has given me a pretty decent understanding of what anamorphic lenses are. Before that, I had no idea what the point of these were. Very nice. Now I want to get me some prime anamorphic lenses. Very expensive though.

Amazing kind of people!

Great lenses, I am getting nanomorph for sure

Great clip.

good one!

i learned a couple things in this one

Super interesting.

Hahahaha hey that's my old Bausch & Lomb Cinemascope Adapter you guys are playing with (I think)! I sold it to Dan a while back...2 of them actually. Rare pieces of moviemaking history. Interesting to see what looks like an Iscomorphot-35 2x 50mm lens there on the table. Super rare. Great vid.

Wow beautiful thanks for doing this what awesome info I luv anamorphic look everything shot on it just looks lush. I like sharp but not clean and sharp as life is not clean and sharp I think anamorphic does that mimics how we the human eye sees the world. But it’s not easy to achieve the look.

Thanks for sharing. May I suggest placing a dark color skirt (maybe with some Camera Gears Graphic) around your cargo cart will make you look more "professional"?

Cool stuff and so much knowledge even though everything doesnt apply to me and is over my head lol

Potato Jet, You should stay in the Potato Hotel out in Idaho and do a vlog about it.

Veeeeeeeery interesting!

Well I wasn’t planning on spending $20,000 on camera equipment…but here I am.

do you download all the movies you use as a BROLL, or do you find clips online and so it is so much easier to do?

Gene , you are a beast. The angle with the 2 of them is beautiful. its simple but im drawn in. Great interview also!! $6,000 for a 1 lens...yikes! what focal length would you use to film an entire project, if you only had one lens?

Dan looks 15 years younger!!!

One day i will obtain these precious lenses and film my cats with them :3

Bought 6, thnx

Well I have something called Optical Flares in AE by Andrew Kramer and it has all of these flares puls some really wild ones which you cannot achieve by any lens in the world :'D

Anamorphic is fucking amazing

Zoom call bouta get real full 😂

Seeing vlog style jump cuts on an anamorphic lens is really jarring 😂

Really wish the BMD Pockets shot open gate

Anamorphic looks great, but can be a PITA for VFX work unless shot properly (good distortion grids, breathing)

Atlas please make an affordable anamorphic adapter like the Moment or Great Joy! your flares are so beautiful!

I hope this type of video does really well on your channel. We need more deep dives into lenses from experts who can help us all make better choices for our projects!

Can you try the Moment anamorphic adapter? Not many videos about it yet

nice😊😊👍👍

Great video as usual Gene. I bet those guys had sore necks by the end of it though. 😉

Great video and very interesting #bubbleFlares

I need a suggestion. What do you think is better: shooting in black and white or shoot in color and then convert to black and white in post production?

Hi Mr. Potato 🥔

Can I use the anamorphic lens on Canon 90D?