Anamorphic lenses wider than 24mm?

[Nathan Wold]

Are there any Anamorphic lenses made that are wider than 24mm? Widest I can find is Cooke's 24mm.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

Considering that's basically a horizontal 12mm field of view I think it'll be hard to find something wider

 

[Ilya O.]

Well, there were NPO EKRAN (CKBK) ones. Do not ask me how or whether it's possible to find these unicorns

BAS26-1 22mm f2.8 Datasheet taken from NIKFI lens review of 1978:

BAS39-22-1 22mm f2.0 reduced Datasheet with main optical data, from NIKFI review of 1989:

 

[Nathan Wold]

Wow, thanks! I totally want that lens even though I know I will never find it!

 

[Ian Tetzner]

Yes, widest I am aware of is the Arri Anamorphic Ultra Wide zoom 19-36mm. http://www.arri.com/camera/cine_lenses/zoom_lenses/anamorphic_ultra_wide_zoom_19_36t42/

 

[Zack Birlew]

That's tough, you don't really hear about ultra wide and anamorphics in the same sentence. I've tried to use adapters with really tiny SLR lenses like my Spiratone 20mm 2.8 but none of them cover that wide and the widest I've gotten is 28mm on full frame with the Panasonic anamorphic adapter. I was inspired by Michael Bay because I read that he had a custom 20mm anamorphic lens made for, I think, either "Pearl Harbor" or one of the first two "Transformers" movies. Whether that lens is available for rent somewhere out there, I don't know, but that's that widest anamorphic I've heard of. Another option for wide anamorphic use is the Cinemorph mod for the Canon EF version of the Sigma 18-35 zoom lens from Vid-Atlantic, it's not a true anamorphic but it gets you similar flares and bokeh that should cut together nicely.

 

[RobMNeilson]

There was one of those 22mm lomo squarefronts for sale a year or two back and it went for a pretty penny. Pretty rare lens that I wish I had a chance to shoot with!

 

[Ilya O.]

Ian, that Arri zoom has back anamorphic attachment so the look would be spherical. Still, I bet at 19mm 2x squeezed it is something if its own.

 

[Ian Tetzner]

Ilya, correct. Yeah, it is a very crazy look to play with.