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Jeremy Langford

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About Jeremy Langford

  • Birthday 04/11/1991

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  1. Ok I was just scared that it might be impossible to attempt to mimic a Wes Anderson, wide, distorted look without an anamorphic lens. I have a Minolta MD 16mm fisheye that is pretty sharp and produces lots of distortion. I'm thinking about buying a crop factor DSLR to try to achieve something similar to a 40mm anamorphic.
  2. Yea, I meant to add that to my original post. I understand that anamorphic lenses provide a way to use wide lenses and not sacrifice space on the negative, meaning more resolution compared to a wide spherical lens. But if you did use a spherical lens that is double as wide as the anamorphic lens, is resolution the only thing sacrificed? Or are there qualities that are dependent on the anamorphic lens that can't be created with spherical lenses?
  3. I understand that an anamorphic 50mm lens would capture the same horizontal FOV as a 25mm spherical lens but a vertical POV of a 50mm spherical lens. What would the difference be between something shot with a 50mm anamorphic lens and a 25mm spherical lens where the 25mm spherical shot was vertically cropped to equal the FOV and aspect ratio of the 50mm anamorphic lens? Would the only difference be the possibility of anamorphic lens flares and distortion? Thanks
  4. I've spent many years experimenting with film photography and I would love to start being able to experiment with video as well. When I look at my favorite films, I always love wide angle shots with noticeable lens distortion. I was trying to find out what format/lenses directors commonly use to achieve these qualities and I started to read about the 40mm anamorphic lens. I read that this focal length/format was used in "Chinatown" as well as "Rushmore". These are two of my favorite films due to their wide POVs and noticeable lens distortion. I would love to be able to achieve the same effects with my own videos but I'm not sure what is required to do so. First off, I have no idea how to understand the POV of a 40mm anamorphic lens in terms of a 35mm film SLR or a FF DSLR. Would it be somewhere close to a 28mm POV? Also, are the cinematic effects produced by a 40mm anamorphic lens dependent on the fact that the lens is anamorphic? I'm having trouble understanding what exactly anamorphic lenses do compared to spherical lenses. I got the following from this forum: "The anamorphic element changes the horizontal angle of a lens by a factor of 2, but leaves the vertical angle untouched. So in fact you have the characteristics of two focal lenses combined in one. A 50mm anamorphic lens for instance has the vertical angle of a 50mm lens, but the horizontal angle of a 25mm lens" If the anamorphic lens has the characteristics of two focal lengths, is it impossible to achieve the same qualities using a single focal length, spherical lens? Thanks
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