Why stop there? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 19:06 (3866 days ago) @ uberfoop
edited by Cody Miller, Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 19:13

The only type of lens that would get weird is if you were mimicking an anamorphic, because of what it does to the optics.

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Anamorphic basically just means the image is scaled along one axis, which is pretty trivial.

That's not correct. A scene shot with anamorphics vs a scene shot with regular lenses would look completely different, if cropped to form identical frames. Because of the lens elements, light sources bounce very differently, bokeh is different, straight surfaces become slightly curved at the lens' edge, depth of field radically changes, etc. It's not just a simple transform since inside the lens the light is doing a ton of stuff bouncing between elements. Anamorphic has a 'look' to it. (Those streaky lens flares JJ Abrams loves only show up on anamorphics for example).

Also, you're right about fisheye lenses and stuff.