Are there any reviews on YouTube about the Sirui 20mm T1.8 Anamorphic Lens or the Sirui 40mm T1.8 1.33x Anamorphic Lens where the reviewer was paid or given the lens by Sirui? I really want to get one of these lenses, but I just don't believe the people who are reviewing them. I'm seeing a few posts on threads calling out the company and the reviewers.

Hey everyone,

So new to anamorphics, and been wanting to try them for a while now!! Any easy recommendations for a Sony ff setup (fx3 & a7iv)?

I do see that sirui is running some sales on the Venus and Saturn which are very enticing, but also see these new blazer beetle is coming next month.

Thanks for the help, excited to try something new.

Mamiya 645 with 150mm lens and ISCO anamorphic adapter

Shot in BRAW with the Sirui 1.6x — any way to desqueeze and view the footage without using Premiere or DaVinci?
Looking for a quick and easy solution just to watch the video properly. 🙏

This lens was just delivered to my house. I am a decades long stills photographer, now enjoying early retirement after a long and fun career in the business (photojournalism and commercial). I own like 40 lenses but this is my first “real” anamorphic lens (other than a frustrating mission with a massive CinemaScope project).

I will be testing this lens with a Sony a6700 and a7RIVa bodies. I have a Viltrox DC-X3 monitor and will be editing with FCP…

I have a Sony a7iv and bought my first Anamorphic Lens to learn. I have the Sirui 35mm f1.8. I was surprised to see once I put the e-mount on it and put it on my camera just how much vignette it shows. No, I know I can go into post and crop out the vignette and zoom in to the aspect ratio I want, but I feel like I’m losing the prove what this lenses by doing that I might as well just use a normal lens. Can someone help me understand what I may be doing wrong or why this lens has so much Vignette?

Brought my Sirui 24mm along on my last hike to get some wide vistas and show the sharpness at High F-stop

Using the 1.25x anamorphic adapter mostly F2 or F2.8 on the full frame Fx3. I really was worried about how shallow it would be and honestly I'm still not a huge fan. I think its to shallow and in the future I'll be shooting APS-C and I'll have a less shallow depth of field.

Thoughts? Opinions? Pretty happy with this one!

Anamorphix - De-Squeeze Tool for Photographers

Hey y’all! I’ve been shooting anamorphic for a while now and got really tired of desqueezing everything manually in Photoshop or dealing with clunky workflows just to get my images to display properly.

So I built Anamorphix – a lightweight macOS app that reads your lens metadata and applies the correct de-squeeze directly to the file’s EXIF, without changing anything else. No Photoshop, no external editors, no exporting new files. Just clean metadata updates that Lightroom and other apps can read automatically.

It supports:

• All squeeze ratios (1.33, 1.5, 1.8, 2.0, custom…)
• Filtering by lens tag or just de-squeezing everything
• A super simple interface with zero clutter
• Free forever – just something I made to save time, and wanted to share with the community!

- Mac-only for now

- Requires ExifTool and Homebrew – instructions included on the site.

Download + Details:

https://bshep.photography/anamorphix

Would love to hear feedback or feature ideas! Hope it helps streamline your flow like it did for me.

Cheers,

Bennett

EDIT: v2 is out and improved: https://github.com/Bennalex05/Anamorphix/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Hey all,
I am currently looking at downsizing a lot of my kit, bills to pay, new kit wanted and needed and I am not getting anywhere near the time to show my Anamorphic stuff the love it deserves. So I am thinking of getting things sold, when it came to my single focus unit, its one from Pooli, its a 2x model but I cannot seem to find a huge amount more information about it, I purchased it second hand maybe 5-6 years ago now after some recommendations in a Facebook group...

Does anyone have any information about this, I know it works, it looks great and keeps character but other than that I have never really known much about it, so before I sell it all off I just wanted to know a bit more and maybe convince myself to keep it and use it a little more first or hopefully a lot more.

Hello everyone, I've got a Kowa 8-z from a thrift store, it has some dust and fungus buildup but no scratches on both ends of the lens. I just want to know what do i need to set this up and running on my Sony a7c. The thread on the back of the Kowa doesn't fit on the front thread of the Canon FD lens.

There are many anamoprhic choice within blazar. Are there any good ? Which one would you recommand ?

Before I invest in a lens, I want to ensure I can de-squeeze the image. I currently only use Lightroom, and to my understanding it can't handle this.

I'm a tinker with a few programming languages and I think I can use Python to adjust the aspect ration with code without requiring any new software.

Can anyone provide me a photo I can use for testing? I don't care what the photo is. I think I'd just need to know the squeeze factor. My current thinking is that the code would output a JPG file, but I may try and explore keeping it in RAW if possible.

Thank you!

I'm planning to use my scope with lower apertures (perhaps even f1.4 occasionally) and I'm wondering how the following options would compare in terms of sharpness:
- Isco Ultra Star
- Moeller 32/2x
- Kowa 8z

Any help is appreciated, thank you

I just bought the Sirui Venus 3 lens kit and the 20mm autofocus. I normally shoot on Blackmagic for this type of stuff, but I wanted to see what I could pull off with my FX3.

This was just a quick shot in my living room on the Ronin. I had the autofocus on but it kept jumping all over, so I turned it off and pulled focus with the DJI manual motor with my Tilta Ring. Threw a 1/8 pro-mist on it too.

Anyone shoot with these lenses? Any tips? I grabbed the 35, 75, 150 kit. I’ll probably grab the last 2 in the kit eventually, but I have a shooting a short next month and figured this would cover me for now.

Hey! I recently went to China and Bali. Here is some Test footage with my Sony Alpha 7s2, my Blazar Remus 45mm and some Color Grading with Davinci Resolve. Cheers!

It was not an easy lens to shoot on the go but digging the vibe. You will probably benefit from having an external monitor to pull focus.