Why Shoot with Anamorphic Lenses?

Anamorphic lenses capture an extremely wide field of view without distorting faces, even during extreme closeups. That means you get a smooth, shallow depth-of-field in the center of the frame with a dreamy falloff towards the edges of the frame.

What is an anamorphic lens used for?

Anamorphic lenses are specialty tools which affect how images get projected onto the camera sensor. They were primarily created so that a wider range of aspect ratios could fit within a standard film frame, but since then, cinematographers have become accustomed to their unique look.

Can you use anamorphic lenses for photography?

Using an anamorphic lens allows you to record using the full 4K area of the sensor, thus retaining all those pixels so the resulting 2.39:1 footage retains 8 million captured pixels instead of just 6.2MP. This is a still image recorded on the GH5 through the Sirui 35mm 1.33x anamorphic lens.