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Moment's Anamorphic Drone Lens Changes What Drone Footage Can Look Like
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Moment's Anamorphic Drone Lens Changes What Drone Footage Can Look Like

Drone footage has a sameness problem. I noticed it a while back when I was cutting a short travel piece and kept cycling through clip after clip of the same top-down reveal, the same slow dolly-forward, the same color-graded sky. The shots were technically clean. They were also completely forgettable. Regulations have pushed everyone into similar flight envelopes, and when everyone’s working with the same restrictions and the same default wide angle, the footage starts to blur together.

What Shooting Anamorphic for the First Time Actually Teaches You (Sirui Full-Frame Lens Breakdown)
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What Shooting Anamorphic for the First Time Actually Teaches You (Sirui Full-Frame Lens Breakdown)

I’ve spent years arguing that the gap between cheap gear and expensive gear is smaller than most people think. But there’s one area where I kept hitting a wall when talking to videographers: anamorphic lenses. For a long time, “anamorphic” meant “renting glass that costs more than my car” or slapping a janky clip-on adapter on a kit lens and hoping for the best. That changed when full-frame anamorphic lenses from companies like Sirui started landing in the sub-$1000 range.