laowa anamorphic

[leslie]

 laowa are making their own anamorphic lens. it will be dropping soon on kickstarter. Apparently may as well get the money up front like everyone else does these days. interestingly  (well for me anyway  ) is an orange flare.

its a pl mount at the moment but should be available in other mounts soonish

from the website

  

1.33x Rear Anamorphic Adapter

$999.00 – $1,800.00

When pairing with the OOOM, Laowa 1.33X Rear Anamorphic Adapter allows expanding your filming canvas to a  2.35:1 cinematic widescreen ratio in a 16:9 sensor while retaining its image resolution.   It adds special characters in bokeh and flares on ordinary spherical lenses to become more cinematic.

* A half stop light impact on the lens after the anamorphic adapter is applied.
* This anamorphic rear adapter doesn’t feature any oval bokeh or expanded horizontal field of view like front anamorphic lenses does.

no expanded fov seems like bit of a problem. Half of the appeal of an anamorphic is the expanded view you get, right ? 

 

[Space Katze]

I'm seeing a review out there, not sure if this is intended or a leak:
Smallest Anamorphic Lenses in the World - Laowa Nanomorph

This Alexandru Don said A S35 lens with almost FF coverage, 
seems interesting. Love how small it is