Owlgreen Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 I'd like to try some vertically-oriented-sensor anamorphic shooting, intending to arrive at a square or 4:3 format. It would be helpful to have a monitor with a 0.5x desqueeze option, as opposed to the more common 2x desqueeze. I guess you could also call it a 2x squeeze, if that makes sense. Does anyone know of a monitor capable of this, especially an affordable one? A mobile app solution could also work. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 I'm confused. Anamorphic lenses squeeze the image and the monitor de-squeezes it so that round things stay round and your actors don't sue you. If you're shooting with an anamorphic lens then wouldn't you still need to have a monitor that desqueezes it? Or do you want to have people looking like bean poles / trolls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owlgreen Posted November 7, 2022 Author Share Posted November 7, 2022 Effectively, I want to be able to turn the anamorphic elements of the lens 90° relative to the way they would typically be oriented. The axis of the desqueeze would then also need to be rotated 90° for proper monitoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Owlgreen said: Effectively, I want to be able to turn the anamorphic elements of the lens 90° relative to the way they would typically be oriented. The axis of the desqueeze would then also need to be rotated 90° for proper monitoring. That makes more sense. I'm assuming the de-squeeze functions of the monitors aren't orientation specific - otherwise just tilting the monitor would fix it. I'm not aware of any, but I'd suggest that @Tito Ferradans might be the best person to ask, if he's around and notices I've tagged him 🙂 I know there are monitors around where you can enter the squeeze factor yourself rather than choosing pre-defined values, but I don't know if they would go <1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owlgreen Posted November 7, 2022 Author Share Posted November 7, 2022 16 minutes ago, kye said: I know there are monitors around where you can enter the squeeze factor yourself rather than choosing pre-defined values, but I don't know if they would go <1. Do you know any model names? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Owlgreen said: Do you know any model names? No, but I think it might have been either on the DSLR Video Shooter YT channel or on the Anamorphic on a Budget channel. I vaguely remember that it might have been in a monitor roundup style video where they compare various monitors, but I can't recall exactly. Hope that helps, although googling things like "custom desqueeze monitor" etc might generate some results? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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