Anamorphic Adapter?

[Justin K Phillips]

I wonder if Red has any plans to produce a good (as opposed to cheap) anamorphic adapter lens for Scarlet. Does anyone else have an interest in seeing such a thing?

 

[Andreas Fernbrant]

Only if it gives the anamorphic blue streak flares

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

Well it's already 3k, cropping top and bottom would do for a nice 2k master.

Guidelines might do the trick.

 

[Johan Malmsten]

I too are interested (if it gets me Blue Streaks that is)... but there should be no problem, I think, to getting an 2:1 anamorphic adaptor built for 16mm projectors and set the Scarlet up for a 4:3 proportioned 2K crop. Don't know about the streaks, but I think it would give you the Bokeh.

If you want the cinemascope and full 3K width... then maybe there's some good 1.33:1 adaptors that give 2.35 final image on 16:9 sensors... the bokeh wouldn't be as dramatically oval as with 2:1 anamorph though.

If you don't want the squashed Bokeh or lens-streaks, then just crop it to cinemascope and export it anamorphically for the film-out.

Maybe Red is working on a special "FX"-filter that gives RED streaks and no squashed bokeh, clear enough to not intrude on the resolution and using the whole widescreen sensor...