anamorphic lens for what?

[zlfan]

my understanding is that "cinematic" is actually "exclusive" in reality. most of the times the exclusive features are aesthetically more beautiful, sometimes arguable, sometimes not appealing. 

[zlfan]

18 hours ago, Happy Daze said:

In my short experience of shooting anamorphic on the BMCC 6KFF at a 1.6x squeeze in open gate 3:2 I found that detail increases a great deal when the video is rendered in 4K. The resultant video is 2.4:1 at 3840 x 1600, and if you think about it, you take the horizontal resolution down to 3840 from 6048 a scaling factor of 1.575 whilst the vertical resolution reduces from 4032 to 1600 with a factor of 2.52. that's a better scaling factor than filming in 8K 2.4:1  7680 x 3200 and rendering at 4K which of course has a scaling factor of just 2 on the vertical axis. There is plenty of information to play with and you can achieve Incredible detail. My first test video:

The main issue in my opinion is correcting for distorted uprights and awful bokeh, not necessarily in distance objects but most certainly in out of focus areas in front of the subject which can look very ugly and it's made to look worse by the fact that the resolution is so good. There are a couple of examples in clips from the video below. That's why I returned this anamorphic lens, not because of a lack of resolution as that was fantastic.

 

very nice footage. I think this is about at 8k level, oversampling to 4k on YouTube. 

on a 27 inch 4k monitor with a viewing distance of 1 foot, this is noticeably better than c300 og's 1080p upres to 4k in davinci. from my experience, this is the most demanding viewing method, more than commercial theaters, more than large screen 4k tvs with a viewing distance of 3-5 meters. 

on laptop, the difference is not noticeable. neither is on iPad, nor on iPhone.