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

[@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

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

can you share some photos? I'd love to see that 75mm!

[@krakapoww]

Hell Yeah i wanna see that

[@Revan89]

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

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

It is pretty awesome haha, the look is really something else. But - the processing each photo is pain in the 🍑

[@Pierretlambert]

looooved the look!

[@StefanDan85]

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

[@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.

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Yup! Thanks, what I did in photoshop is change percentage value of height to 62,5% and just made action out of it so I can do it with one click

[@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.

[@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

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Ah puppet warp! I'll try that, but I feel it's gonna be even harder! Thanks for the comment my friend!

[@VentureOutside]

What is the Iphone app that you are using at to show the desqueezed image to compose?

[@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

[@v_stands_for_value124]

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

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

haha, yup. Hard to showcase these photos on the phones sadly...

[@hindator]

What about "Adaptive Wide Angle" tool within Photoshop? You can straighten bent lines there...

[@RandumbTech]

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

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

haha #sorrynotsorry

[@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

[@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.

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

That's awesome!

[@EvilSardine084]

Have you tried doing the lens correction before the de-squeeze? :)

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

I did, no luck!

[@KydKupa]

Fix the pin cushion in Davinci resolve.

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Yeah, that would be for video, but not for RAW photos.

[@FelixCervantes]

Nah, the tool in Resolve does the same as Photoshop, it messes with the middle also.

[@kultyurgeym]

I'm glad seeing your video because I am thinking to buy this lens for my camera, to do both video and photo

[@sandb1867]

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.

[@paultaylor5513]

How about the newly released Saturn version which is quite a bit smaller and lighter?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

it looks amazing, haven't had a chance to play with it yet

[@jamesbruce]

I have that lens. The size is crazy small. I have been using it on a gimbal for video, I will do a walkaround photo shoot with it to see. I have to admit I never thought of doing it until I was this video. One thing to note with the these lenses is they have made me rethink my other lens choices. The contrast is much greater than my Rokinon lenses and so I now want a wideish lens for other parts of my video that match the characteristics and also a 24mm version of this lens.

[@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

[@frankstopa6270]

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

[@OhSnapDanny]

Is it possible to use the marquee box selection tool to select only the barreled sides rather than the image as a whole?

[@DanielFoo]

Amazing photo quality and effects with this lense , wondering if we cant see the effects until post production when u change the aspect ratio on Photoshop?

[@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 ?

[@SuwandiChandraPhotography]

How is the sharpness with your a7RV? Great video by the way. Thanks for sharing

[@Neobright1]

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

[@alcozome]

Beautiful - I just bought one and subscribed - Excellent video! -Thank you!

[@SjakBrak]

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

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@johncox5839]

What is the Video Monitor app you used? Would save $600 to know.

[@lehighvalleyyouthministry2821]

what is the name of the app

[@ketangajria8855]

Do you use the SteadyShot settings the same as if it were a spherical lens?

[@jesse2450]

Thank you for making this video! I have been looking for someone to use this lens for pictures because I have the Fuji gfx 50s and love the xpan shots it takes but I want to move over to canon but I didn’t want to lose the 65:24. SIRUI has just announced their nighthawk line for $300 early bird prices so I will wait🎉🎉🎉 ps love the videos please never stop🔥🔥

[@psfphotography]

Amazing!! I completely love the look of them! I wish they made one for Nikon.

[@Kusgan4x4]

Where do you desqueeze your photos?

[@663]

Cool video! I was thinking to try it with a7s iii which has 12megapixels, I think should deliver same results? Because at the end of the day you are just destretching the image you are not cropping it or punching in? or im missing something?

[@ezlo3390]

Hey could you tell me what’s the rig and iPhone app you have to see the image already squeezed? Just purchased lens thanks

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Hey! I used the Accsoon Seemo, which I think it's superb for this! It's recording device that uses a phone as screen -> www.accsoon.com/products/accsoon-seemo/

[@Leo_TV.]

Whats the name of the App at 8:27? Thanks :)

[@MarkBaldone]

Can you throw the link for that app for the recorder?

[@ankangartist]

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

[@JohanFitFoodie]

Great review, just got mine and actually going to Tokyo in a month with it🗼 Did you ever use it for video with in-body stabilizer? 📷

[@Isaharif]

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

[@HansVanOort-lc1gq]

Wonderful use of the 35mm, great examples this is a very helpful review!! Thank you for sharing this, it's for sure my next lens I want. Is it for you, what you said, just for the fun or do you thing this will be asked for by your customers? I do not see many of these anamorphic photo's I think it's a shame. But also it is a shame that Instagram still not support these widescreen photo's.

[@tom_nuyts]

Great inspiration... your video inspired me to try the 35 and 75 Sirui 2.9 lenses.. as a former user of the x pan I also will experiment with the panoramic effects and look of the lenses for architecture, landscape, people... all the best, Tom (Berlin/Germany). PS. the main issues remaining.. I will have to learn manual focusing again .. and: how can I control the kind of irregular distortion with the 35 mil? the distortion is so "mixed" top down and left right, that the standard tool of PS elements does not seem to manage it in a satisfying manner..

[@meronmeron-m3m]

great review love the images, which one do you prefer btw? 50mm or 35mm for anamorphic?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Thanks! I still haven’t tried 50mm anamorphic, so I do not know :/

[@regnartoja4378]

Would be great to see compare of this anamorfic lens with regular 35 1.4. Same image, but cropped 35 to anamorfhic ratio :)

[@RandumbTech]

You would have to apply the crop to an image taken with the 20 1.8 lens to get a similar FOV.

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

@@RandumbTech yup! I'll get my hands on 20/1.8 to see how it differs with the crop!

[@ivan52design]

@@MagicWeddingPhotographer please do compare the 20mm f1. 8 & the 35mm sirui! It would be a lifehack if the 20mm crop offer a similar look, as it's lightweight and does autofocus! Thanks!

[@thorstenjaspert9394]

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.

[@rfaptrex]

The is a wide angle tool in photoshop this would be perfect for you if you set up an action.

[@mex5341]

what's about shooting vertical?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

@@mex5341 nope, doesn’t look good

[@ivangodovikov590]

Hi man. It is very interesting approach to have XPAN-like digital photos. Didn't you try other lenses from Venus lineup? May be for street photography would be more easy to work with Venus 50... Would you please share some RAWs (2-3 samples) to try? I would be very grateful for that;) Thank you for your video.

[@MusaonYT]

How about using a 24 or 16mm full frame lens and then just cropping the photos? I admit they won’t have the characteristics of an anamorphic lens, but this is like a simple hack

[@yargnad]

Cropping reduces the resolution. This lens allows you to retain full resolution.

[@felixmorsdorf1391]

@@yargnad I wonder too if you take a high-res body like the 61MP Sonys and a very sharp wide angle (I use 20G and 24GM) and then crop in post, if the images will not be as good or better in terms of resolution than this lens (at least if this lens is used on a low MP body). I wonder how sharp these anamorphic lenses are in general. Cropping in post has the advantage of having lossless keystone correction (just level the camera and move the crop up or down).

[@krakapoww]

16 would give fisheye like distortion, i think you wanna be around 28/30 mm ff if you Are going for the xpan look. And also you would want to have a pretty shallow depth of field

[@krakapoww]

24mm works to a certain degree in my experience tho

[@AbdullahSaeedAcademy]

Hi Magic, thanks for the amazing content 🙏 I was wondering if the anamorphic for photography works with RAW aspect ratio 🤔 Do I have to work only with JPG baked 16:9 or it will be the same in RAW?

[@krakapoww]

Why shouldnt the 16:9 raw act the same way?

[@thorstenjaspert9394]

It must be great to shoot landscape photos with it. The canon EF mount is not supported. Giving wedding photos a cinematic look could be loved by customers.

[@jasonmontoyaphoto]

I want one so bad!! Do you think the images would still come out okay on a 24 MP camera? I’m shouting with A9’s

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Yup! No worries here, it will look as good in 24mp, just smaller!

[@emanuelschimpfossl5919]

Do you think you could print images with a 24mp camera and this lense?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Yup. Obviously depending on the print size, but you'll be dealing with 6000x2460px image size, so it's plenty for prints

[@Camaro-it8ht]

So if instead of this lens you use a "normal" anamorphic adapter and turn it 90º, so you have to desqueeze it vertically, you will get a square photo much like 6x6. Did anyone tried this?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Oh man, that is next level. Need to get myself adapter 😂

[@yargnad]

Yes you would. Anamorphic on a Budget did a video about it.

[@BenjiSamosir]

also in landscape i dont have to stich panorama anymore... great idea..

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

How do you desqueeze the picture in Lightroom?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

In LR you can't unfortunately. I used PS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKuzaXd5fpZ2d8k

[@suffocated]

The rings are in the same position to enable motorised focusing/aperturing via external gears/devices.

[@jeansebastientlebreton]

Very useful, great job !!

[@adam_kozlowski]

Great video, cool lens, just magic!

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Everything is Magic here

[@burgosbrand]

Great job 👏🏼

[@synkuk]

Why not apply your corrections before you stretch the image

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

It’s hard to judge how much correction you need when seeing squeezed image, but I’ll try that!

[@geebes2112]

Pretty dang cool!

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

I agree :)

[@petereprice]

Great video, Magic! I’ve been looking to make anamorphic stills for years and tried some of the earlier Sirui offerings. This new full frame lens looks awesome! I’ve also been looking at the Venus Optics mirrorless anamorphic lenses as well! They are super 35 but apparently still fit on full frame fields of view with minimal vignetting and are very compact (more like a stills lens size) and they also have interchangeable lens mounts. They also offer different flare color types of orange, blue or silver. I’ve been eying those lenses myself as a new anamorphic photo kit! Check it out if you get a chance!

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Thanks! I will check the Venus, sounds great!

[@bluemarblemark]

excellent!

[@pepetrueno8722]

Great video! I really like that look. It’s kind of like a panoramic on steroids

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Thanks! And yup, exactly that hah!

[@monsoonlands836]

It is Pincushion distortion, not barrel. There is tools to fix it, saw on google.

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

oh you're right!! Thanks for that, I'll look into it!

[@carlosnieves4894]

Shibuya question mark? 👀👀👀

[@michaello904]

50mm or 75 anamorphic len is great for portraits but 35mm is ok for street photography

[@p0rtela_0]

10:40 ✌

[@marshallangus3665]

Yo email me those photos so I can give them to my mum for Christmas. I look fantastic!

[@zbyneksurovec]

wtf is going on w the audio??

[@chriscard6544]

Im not a graphic designer, so dont take it bad, but your frame colour you add is not great to me, one single personal opinion