

Sounds weird? It happens not because part of sensor captured image is cropped, but because part of it is optically converted to expand the horizontal view. At the same time you get slight horizontal crop. – You get more of the scene from same picture taking point with no real cropping, and entire sensor of your phone camera is used.

Main things that you get from a Moment Anamorphic Please don’t judge overall image quality here as I heavily post-processed all photos and that in some cases degraded IQ too.

Important note! Take this article as being about the fun of using anamorphic lens. Such types of lenses give more than just wider and horizontally cropped view – there is a very good explanation what such lenses do and how they perform from creators of this lens themselves here, so I won’t go into deep explanation in this article, I’m just going summarize the main aspects that you might need to know and will jump to experience of shooting this lens, joys and issues that I faced. One of those lenses is the Moment Anamorphic lens.Īnamorphic lenses are made primarily for video work, but they suits still shooting as well. So I began to investigate add-on lenses for mobile phone cameras and learned about anamorphic lenses for smartphones. You see, it’s not as good as the main camera. I thought that life would be simpler… And it was until I started to find the shortcomings of low light shooting with the ultra-wide lens.
Moment anamorphic lens pro#
To cover my snapshot and “no light” shooting I upgraded my iPhone to 11 PRO a model with three lenses: an ultra-wide, normal and telephoto. At some point in my photography hobby I got tired of over-complicated digital cameras and got rid of my Sony A7RII – this left me as an exclusive film-shooter. Today, I’ll be talking about digital photography and something that happened as sort of as a lucky accident – discovering and shooting the Moment Anamorphic lens for my iPhone I already covered my cheapish take on film wide aspect shooting in several articles here and here. I still can’t get enough of shooting wide aspect ratios.
