Cinematic Anamorphic Video
J ust this past week, I picked up a used anamorphic lens adapter. This adapter allows me to convert a useful selection of my lenses to be used to create cinematic wide screen videos with most of the characteristics of far more expensive cine lenses. True cine lenses are both huge in size and exhorbitantly expensive when compared to typical camera lenses used for still photography. These anamorphic lenses are used mostly by filmmakers because this type of lens is actually designed to fit wide-screen cinematic video on smaller film and digital sensors. Back in the 1950s, movie studios were filming on 35mm film. Some studios were probably still using 16mm film too but major productions were using 35mm film. By comparison, home movies were being filmed on 8mm film. I was very well versed on 8mm film through the 1960s and 1970s as that is the format my family used for all our home movies. By the time I was in high school in the mid-1970s, I was cutting and splicing 8mm film to cre