Anamorphic Lens For Photography - Digital X-Pan? Sirui 35mm T/2.9 Review / with photos from Tokyo

In this video I'm going to break down how I used Sirui Anamorphic lens - 35mm T/2.8 1.6x FF for photos. I used it on Sony A7RV and I love the photos it produces. Although it is 35mm lens, it gives a field of view closer to a 22mm lens, which results in an amazing panoramic photos. It does remind me of Hasselblad XPAN camera, so can this be a Digital X-Pan?

👀 Check the blog post with photos from this lens here:

Huge shoutout to @TaylorJacksonPhoto and Marshall for the trip together and help with filming some of the footage!

00:00 Intro
00:59 Sirui 35mm T/2.9 Anamorphic 1,6x FF overview
05:09 Photos from Tokyo - A7RV + Sirui 35mm
10:49 Editing wedding under 2 hours
12:56 Digital X-Pan

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[Revan]

I was expecting it to be a gimmick, but the results are beyond awesome. I LOVE the look.

[RaidOctober]

I have the 75mm version of this lens and I love it. on a 3:2 sensor the squeeze just brings it close to 2.4:1, every frame looks like a movie still

[thorstenjaspert]

Shooting a marriage with a anamorphic lens and a cinematic filmstock LUT can turn the photos in a personal movie for the couple. It is worth to offer it to couple who is going to marry. This lens made a great job for city and street. I think it is good for wide landscapes as welll 1: 2.39 aspect ratio is freshing up still photography.

[martyjwalker]

For anyone using darktable there's a pixel aspect module that will desqueeze your image and save all the round-tripping to an image editor.

[drrrw]

I haven't thought about this being like a digital xpan minus the lens characteristic. Thanks!

Editing tip with desqueeze in photoshop. Go to image>image size, divide height value by squeeze factor eg. 6000/2. Or multiple the width by squeeze factor, which is slower.

[StefanDan]

regarding your close focusing issue - i use hoya CLOSE-UP LENS SET II 82mm and they're quite awesome

[RandumbTech]

Great, now I need this lens too. Results look phenomenal!!

[Tids_]

Puppet warp might have been a better option than Liquify, and can be wrapped in an action if all images have the same distortion. Great content btw Magic, love your channel

[SourPlanet]

I'm gonna have to pick one up. I currently crop to cinemascope and just shoot with a slightly wider lens than needed for what I'm up to. It's a pale imitation, but the vibe does often carry over. That said, this video pretty much convinced me to switch over to anamorphic. I've been waiting for the right lens to pull the trigger.. and I think it finally arrived. Sirui just launched the new version of this lens and it looks awesome. It's also like $200 cheaper. Your street shots around Japan are very similar to how I shoot around Manhattan. That's the other thing that convinced me-- finally someone who's posting shots like I actually make!

For the barrel fix... another option is the Warp Tool in Photoshop. Not the fancy version, but rather the old school one found under Edit > Transform > Warp. It's tied to a grid and warps are done by editing the individual nodes in the grid. Holding Shift while moving grid nodes also keeps them locked to strict vertical only (or horizontal only) moves. So you can just grab the nodes found along the left and right borders of the image- but only the grids in the center of the frame edge. Drag them out horizontally away from center and it should just fix the issue straight up. Also easy to do as an action.

Anyway. Thanks for the video. From me, not from my bank account. My bank account is kinda mad at you :P

[SDA-Sound]

I’ve been obsessed with this look since I saw videos of the atlas Mercury, settled on the Blazar Remus 1.5 45mm and it’s pretty sick not gonna lie. Just wish my GFX100ii could de squeeze the stills like it can the video. Maybe a firmware update down the road I dunno

[sandb]

Love these images! I"ve always lusted after the Xpan but never pulled the trigger. Have you tried this in pixel shift mode? If yes, how's the quality? Could be great for pano landscapes.

[creativeentreprenuerblueprint]

Thanks for taking the time to share! Makes me just want to shoot video and pull the stills but I know I'll loose quality. All good stuff! Thanks

[frankstopa]

Excellent images. What dog you think about using this lens for landscape panoramas?

[DanielFoo]

Im so inspired by this vid and the shots im switching to mirrorless from my old dslr and to go along with the sirui lense.

[Neobright]

Awesome video - good mix of education, images, technical elements and opinion. Just subbed 🙂

[v_stands_for_value]

This thing is a big slap to the Instagram 4:5, love it

[ankangartist]

Finally I found what I wanted to know. Thanks for making the video.

[Isaharif]

This was super informative and entertaining at the same time. Didn't feel the time go by. Thank you.

[SjakBrak]

Thanks for making this vid! There's not much around about anamorphic for photography, so this was extremely useful!

[thegoldenmaestro]

just a question since you have experience in anamorphic and 'normal' lenses i guess you the best person to ask
ive never used an anamorphic lens before
but i love the look
so ive mimicked the anamorphic look by cropping my video or adding black bars (letter box) to it and I also have this lens filter with stripes across it to give me that 'anamorphic flare' 
so my question is 
from that point 
is it worth 'for me' to buy an actual anamorphic lens or should i just keep doing what am doing and its close enough and call it a day 
mind you 
i shoot weddings and you how it is and the turn around needs to be ASAP and all that 
so what do you advise me ?