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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.

September 6, 2026

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Sirui VP-1 Cinema Lens Set Review: Three T1.4 Primes for Less Than One Competitor Lens

I’ve tested enough cheap lenses to know that the marketing always sounds better than the glass. “Cinema-grade” gets slapped on everything now, and most of the time it means someone added gear teeth to a kit lens and charged you three times as much. So when Tony and Chelsea Northrup dropped a review of the Sirui Vision Prime 1 set, I watched it twice, because the value proposition they laid out was the kind of thing that usually has a catch buried somewhere.

July 16, 2026