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

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In this video I'm going to break down how I used Sirui Anamorphic lens - 35mm T/2.8 1.6x FF for photos. I used it on Sony A7RV and I love the photos it produces. Although it is 35mm lens, it gives a field of view closer to a 22mm lens, which results in an amazing panoramic photos. It does remind me of Hasselblad XPAN camera, so can this be a Digital X-Pan?
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Huge shoutout to ‪@TaylorJacksonPhoto‬ and Marshall for the trip together and help with filming some of the footage!
00:00 Intro
00:59 Sirui 35mm T/2.9 Anamorphic 1,6x FF overview
05:09 Photos from Tokyo - A7RV + Sirui 35mm
10:49 Editing wedding under 2 hours
12:56 Digital X-Pan
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Пікірлер: 95

@Revan89 Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

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

@RaidOctober Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Pierretlambert Жыл бұрын

looooved the look!

@Neobright1 10 ай бұрын

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

@creativeentreprenuerblueprint Жыл бұрын

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

@Isaharif Жыл бұрын

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

@alcozome 6 ай бұрын

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

@ankangartist Жыл бұрын

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

@RandumbTech Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

haha #sorrynotsorry

@SourPlanet Жыл бұрын

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

@jeansebastientlebreton 5 ай бұрын

Very useful, great job !!

@burgosbrand 18 күн бұрын

Great job 👏🏼

@kultyurgeym 11 ай бұрын

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

@DanielFoo 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

That's awesome!

@StefanDan85 Жыл бұрын

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

@adam_kozlowski Жыл бұрын

Great video, cool lens, just magic!

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

Everything is Magic here

@psfphotography Жыл бұрын

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

@geebes2112 Жыл бұрын

Pretty dang cool!

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

I agree :)

@HansVanOort-lc1gq Жыл бұрын

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.

@SuwandiChandraPhotography Жыл бұрын

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

@SjakBrak Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

@DanielFoo Жыл бұрын

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?

@frankstopa6270 2 күн бұрын

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

@sandb1867 6 күн бұрын

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.

@LennefalkStudios 3 ай бұрын

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? 📷

@AbdullahSaeedAcademy 8 ай бұрын

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?

@drrrw Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-jp9js9th8o Жыл бұрын

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..

@bluemarblemark Жыл бұрын

excellent!

@Tids_ Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@BenjiSamosir Ай бұрын

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

@v_stands_for_value124 Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

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

@jesse2450 11 ай бұрын

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🔥🔥

@OhSnapDanny 4 ай бұрын

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

@hindator 9 ай бұрын

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

@ivangodovikov590 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ketangajria8855 Жыл бұрын

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

@MarkBaldone 5 ай бұрын

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

@rfaptrex Жыл бұрын

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

@hisokiss 9 ай бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer 9 ай бұрын

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

@Leo_TV. 4 ай бұрын

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

@KydKupa Жыл бұрын

Fix the pin cushion in Davinci resolve.

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

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

@FelixCervantes Жыл бұрын

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

@johncox5839 Жыл бұрын

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

@lehighvalleyyouthministry2821 Жыл бұрын

what is the name of the app

@pepetrueno8722 Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And yup, exactly that hah!

@EvilSardine084 Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

I did, no luck!

@ezlo3390 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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/

@suffocated 7 ай бұрын

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

@thorstenjaspert9394 3 ай бұрын

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.

@regnartoja4378 Жыл бұрын

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

@RandumbTech Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

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

@ivan52design Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@paultaylor5513 Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

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

@jamesbruce Жыл бұрын

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.

@jasonmontoyaphoto Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@syrcular Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I will check the Venus, sounds great!

@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 Жыл бұрын

How do you desqueeze the picture in Lightroom?

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

In LR you can't unfortunately. I used PS: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qOCAa6d0rpencZs.html

@emanuelschimpfossl5919 Жыл бұрын

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

@MagicWeddingPhotographer Жыл бұрын

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

@p0rtela_0 Жыл бұрын

10:40 ✌

@BK-it8ht Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@yargnad 10 ай бұрын

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

@MusaonYT Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@felixmorsdorf1391 Ай бұрын

@@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).