anamorphic
adjective
Examples of anamorphic in a Sentence
Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
The optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss has made a herculean effort to design and manufacture an anamorphic lens with the specifications required for our new machine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023
It was shot with anamorphic lens and boasts a glossy cinematography, as well as high production values.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
The list of exhibitors has since expanded, with anamorphic lens provider Vantage now attending with new products to hawk, while LED gear house Cream Source has become an all the more recent addition – reflecting the growing importance of digital production.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
Steve Pauley makes stone sculptures whose anamorphic engravings can be discerned only when light is cast on them to reflect the images on adjacent surfaces.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
Not only that, the look of the animation in the standard sequences was made to mimic the anamorphic lenses that were used in the 70s and 80s movies that inspired Lightyear, while in the full-frame sequences, the look mirrors the depth of field of a larger IMAX 15/70 film stock would use.
—Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 16 June 2022
World premiered at Canneseries, the episode sums up the high cinematic style brought to the series, with Hirschbiegel employing anamorphic lenses, an 8o-second dolly shot or 30-second closeup to construct a social horror story and play with audience expectation, as Von Schirach before him.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
Here, Walker changed to anamorphic (T Series) lenses.
—Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
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Word History
probably borrowed from French anamorphique, derivative (by analogy with other derivatives with -morphique -morphic) of anamorphose "anamorphosis (image produced by a distorting optical system)," borrowed from New Latin anamorphosis, probably from Greek ana- ana- + -morphōsis (as in metamórphōsis "transformation, metamorphosis")
Note: The New Latin word anamorphosis in reference to optical distortion was apparently introduced by the German Jesuit scientific writer Gaspar Schott (1608-66) in his Magia universalis naturae et artis (Würzburg, 1657), p. 100 ff.
1875, in the meaning defined above
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