At Cine Gear 2026 in Los Angeles, we caught up with Atlas Lens Co. to talk about their Kaizen 1.5x Anamorphic lenses, which ...

Filmmaker Ryan Freeman has asked the unaskable: can you compare a $30,000 Cooke anamorphic lens with a $1,000 Zeiss spherical lens? Well, to insert a bit of a spoiler here, no, you can't. Cooke makes ...

Viltrox was showing its new Epic 18mm T2.8 1.33x anamorphic lens at Cine Gear 2025 in Los Angeles. The 18mm will be the ...

Replay: Anamorphic lenses used to be big, heavy, and softer than their spherical counterparts. Here's why modern anamorphic lenses don't need to suffer the same limitations. The issue is that a lot of ...

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LOS ANGELES—Today there’s no such thing as a project for one distribution medium. While the last century had movies finding their way to television and VHS, the theatrical screen was the focus (no pun ...

Other than a few very niche lenses, like tilt-shift or fish-eye, anamorphic glass tends to have the most distinctive look that is easy to spot, even to the uninitiated. They often have an almost three ...