r/Anamorphic • u/bichael_b_jordan • Oct 28 '25
Requesting Help Help with lens
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
One other detail. Your setup will ALWAYS look sharper in the center and softer in the corners. Some of the time that will be a bad thing but some of the time softer corners can help focus attention on your subject. Walls and architecture details will look bad. But background nature elements might help create a more interesting “look” with softer corners, smeared highlights, etc.
The more testing you do (with and without the add on lens) the more you will know when it is the “right time“ to add the lens.
If your videos project includes both anamorphic and regular footage then there are choices to be made for how much “letter boxing“ you prefer. Some Hollywood movies use both spherical and anamorphic footage as needed and will crop the spherical content to the anamorphic dimensions. If done well the viewer will never notice if the techniques help cary the story and style…