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Zendaya's music is featured in this Demo of the Anamorphic Lens created in the construction project "DIY Variable Anamorphic Lens designed for Digital Cameras". When viewed on a 24" Monitor you may want to position you eyes 8 to 12 inches from the Monitor for correct 3D perspective, with a large Projector Screen you can be much further away.

This is raw footage from a Cell Phone. The only Post Processing is Digital Image Stabilization, the addition of an Audio Track and placing the raw Clips end to end. Clinical and sterile, no effects added. Pause on any Frame in this Video to see the pixel perfect details.

This 'Demo Video' is provided so you can judge the quality of the results obtained when using my newly designed Lens. I used a Cell Phone, and incorrectly sized plastic Lenses, to show that better results can be expected with better equipment.

This is Part 2, a "Long Demo", Part 1, the "How To Build It" part, is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3el5X7XwA

When using this new Lens design with a Digital Camera there is no loss of horizontal resolution resulting from Post 'Anamorphic unsqueezing'.

This new method allows recording in the anamorphic format direct to digital media at the highest resolution possible. No intermediate recording to Film and subsequent 4K Scan is required.

Every Anamorphic Lens I have seen is designed for Film, it squeezes horizontally. To obtain the same resolution with a Digital Camcorder as you would when using Film you would need to have rectangular Sensor Pixels (to avoid the 'pixel doubling' resulting from unsqueezing a 2X Anamorphic Lens' Digital Video recording) and more of them, the Camcorder would need to be redesigned to use Anamorphic Lenses designed for Film recording.

When Filming, with Film, the Anamorphic Lens squeezes the Image and allows the use of more of the Film's surface area resulting in a higher quality Image.

An Image _projected_ from Film can utilize the higher resolution that Film provides, a Digital Image contains no such 'extra information' and making a Digital Image twice as wide is done by pixel doubling (it adds no "new" information to the Image, it only restores the aspect ratio).

When using a Digital Camera the Anamorphic Lens does not necessarily use the entire Sensor and when the Video is resized to double width you do not "double" the resolution, you repeat the same Pixel twice (make each Pixel twice as wide).

This new Lens design solves that problem. This vertical expansion Lens preserves full horizontal detail.

While this Lens was specifically designed for 'Digital' (to eliminate all horizontal resizing resolution loss) there is no reason that this Lens would not work with a Film Camera. An additional benefit is that it requires no double-focusing, just focus as you normally would with your Camera. Alignment is fairly non-critical, tilting shows an effect but misalignment does not (until you get to the edge of the Prism Lens).

With no 'pixel doubling' and smearing from resizing you get better beams, streams, streaks, flares and bokeh, all presented in high resolution. Note that I left a lot of 'light leakage' in this first version of the Lens. It can easily be toned down a lot more in the final version of this Lens by simply enclosing the sides (yes this was recorded with the Len's edges exposed to light, thus all the flaring and contrast fluctuations (orange fog)).


The Cell Phone was hand held, no Dollys, Booms, or Cranes were used during the recording of this Video. The 'high shots' were made by 'shooting blind' (overhead) and the smoothness is from Digital Image Stabilization (using DeShaker).

This is an early version of this Lens, after practicing only a half dozen times with it. If you use a better Camera than a Cell Phone, practice more, and spend more money than I did then you should get even better results.

I had the Parts available to make this Lens, but they could cost about $30 if I had to buy them. Top quality glass Lenses, with AR coating (that you may not want), would increase the cost to a few hundred dollars.

The ability to alter the 'Lens squeezing' enables you to vary the aspect ratio from 1:1 (normal) to well over 4:1 (more than any other Lens available - too wide).

This Lens can be adjusted and the size of the resulting black bars in the Video LetterBox can be altered _before_ recording. This saves the cost of a few whole sets of Anamorphic Lenses (often priced over 20K each).

Also see: http://www.zuggsoft.com/theater/prism.htm .


Music by Zendaya: Fireflies, Butterflies, Putcha Body Down, Only When Your Close, Bottle You Up, Scared, Replay, Fireflies (reprise).


Video Format: 1.33 Anamorphic,1920x810 4:2:0, 32-Bit FP Audio.
Upload Size: 4.811 GB. 53000 Frames, 29.970 FPS. 00:29:28.43
Bitrate: Min. 6.3 Mbps, Average 20.2 Mbps, Max: 114.6 Mbps.