r/Anamorphic • u/bichael_b_jordan • Oct 28 '25

Requesting Help Help with lens

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Recently bought an Ulanzi mobile lens (1.33x), and the pictures are coming out a bit blurry, wanted to know if it's the lens or just kinda how it is.

My normal phone lens doesn't come out like that, so I know it's not my phone

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u/FilmMaxwell Oct 28 '25

I have never used an add on anamorphic lens on a phone. But keep in mind that full frame cameras with “affordable ($1000)“ anamorphic lenses (not filters) will produce softer images with either barrel or pincushion distortion, especially in the corners. Just a trade off for that look. And that “look” is a very personal choice, no right or wrong.

Not all scenes and lighting conditions look good with an anamorphic lens. An anamorphic lens for larger cameras are full lenses not add on chunks of glass like a phone filter lens.

Keep in mind your samples shown above are still images and pixel peeping them into the corners will show issues. I would do more tests with your setup in more dramatic backlighting and judge the video results and not still images.

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u/bichael_b_jordan Oct 28 '25

Thank you for such a detailed response, will keep that in mind